I watched the programme last night and whilst interesting, it is so remote from what I could ever do in my own kitchen. Yes the biryani was cooked in a pot sealed with pastry - a pot containing two whole goats stuff with a whole chicken which was stuffed with a whole quail. It was made for what looked like a Hindu wedding with 2000 guests.

Hardly home cooking

Another recipe was made by a remote tribe for a chutney made with ants eggs sourced from an ant's nest 80 feet up a tree!

Hardly home cooking

Gordon said in the intro to the programme that he wanted to get away from the typical Indian curries that we know in the UK (i.e. not usually made by Indians but by Pakistanis/Bangladeshis)) and discover Indian food. However these examples are not even typical of what Indian families eat.

Hardly Home Cooking

Interesting

But hardly home cooking

Is this the recipe you are looking for?

https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3003.msg26612#msg26612

Curry looks great and Naans look tasty!

Panpot

Looking forward to hearing how you get on, Naan bread and Chicken Chasni for me please!

I like my sauces to be thicker rather than thinner, akin to a yoghurt type consistency. I hate seeing a plate of curry with watery sauce running through the rice.

If you were to watch the news on TV today you would think that snow had just been invented but we have had snow sitting here in North East Scotland for the past three weeks and it doesn't look like clearing.

Just came across this recipe and was delighted to find it as I have been using this mix for years and the result has always been fantastic. Thanks for posting this CA.

Thanks for that UB I will be doing this at the end of the month I think!!!!

A friend of mine knows a guy who stables horses near Alyth in Perthshire and he has recorded a low of minus 30c this winter.

CA I think your last reason is possibly one of the biggest contributors. I think the availability of commercially prepared products for the catering trade has stemmed from the increase in demand in the UK from the 70s to 80s for curries. Indeed it has been said that CTM has replaced fish and chips as the nation's favourite dish. This being the case, commercial opportunities have opened up and been filled by pre-prepared products leading to a homogenised set of products that we now know as BIR curries.