Just a thought phil, are you using precooked chicken? I'm sure you know some raw meat can put put a lot of water - this has messed up a few of my curries, especially when cooking bigger portions.

Quote from: hampshire hog on July 12, 2011, 12:49 PM
Hi Sharps - welcome - looking at your avitar anything to do with Sharps Bewery at Rock Cornwall???

Mighty fine establishment and I can't remember any thing about my last vist there!!!!!

It's a shame sharps have been bought by Coors let's hope their beers remain as good (not hopeful though)

Welcome to the forum Sharps

Epic currying - what are your delivery charges?

Great work Ray can't say I'll ever cook it for myself as I'm a fan of smooth sauces without the onions & peppers but may add it to the pub curry night repertoire

Sounds a bit more authentic than the KD one I've done in the past too.

Quote from: moezus on July 08, 2011, 06:27 AM
Made this last weekend with CA's base. Was awesome. My favourite dish to order at my local restaurant is "Chicken Methi Masala".
This Methi recipe tasted better than the restaurant, only thing missing which i'll add next time is some pre-fried onion and I'll never eat curry out again.

Hi Moezus, glad your curry was better than the restaurant! CAs base is excellent too. Hope the fried onion gives you curry perfection

Quote from: Razor on July 01, 2011, 08:10 AM
Hey Tom,

Great pics fella but was it just you and wineman who were eating?  Bloody Nora, you guy's have got healthy appetites haven't ya 

I recently had a curry night, only a fortnight back, on the menu was;

30 poppadoms
Yogurt sauce
Lime pickle
spicy red onions
Mango/chilli jam chutney
Meat samosas x 16
Tandoori chicken legs x 16
Onion bhajis x 16
Big bowl of pilau rice
Big bowl of plain basmati rice
Lamb tikka Jal Frezi, x 4
Lamb Rogan Josh x 4
Chicken Madras x 4
Chicken tikka bhuna x 4
Lots of salad

That lot fed 10 adults and 4 kids, with plenty left to take home (I actually didn't get any )

The only photos I have were taken on my phone and really don't do the presentation justice, hence why I haven't posted them but I will be having another curry night soon for a different circle of friends so hopefully, I'll get better pics then.

Good post Tom, always enjoy seeing the fruits of ones labour.

Ray

Wooah after cooking all that you probably were sick of the sight of curry!

Quote from: solarsplace on July 01, 2011, 09:05 AM
Hi Tom

How long have you been cooking BIR style curry for?

Cheers Solarsplace, I have been trying to cook curries for getting on 20 years.  At first I didn't realise it was BIR I was trying to cook  

For the last 10 years I suppose I have been cooking BIR stuff, using KD and variations on Pat Chapman recipes.  But by far the best recipes and bases are the ones I have found on here, made a massive improvement in my curries!

Wineman (Chris) has been cooking for a couple of years and I introduced him to this site he had been using KD before that) and he is a very happy bunny!

I was so stuffed after eating I had to lie on my tummy and rock myself to sleep!

I had done most of the prep the day before - so each curry only took about 10 mins to cook.

Hi all,

Myself and new member "wineman" had a curry night tonight - here are some pics!

We started off with a pleasant couple of pints of bitter then started cooking.  The base and spice mix were CA's and we knocked up a King Prawn Vindaloo, a Mutton Madras, a Chicken Ceylon, a Chicken Chasni, Chilli paneer and some pilau rice.  We even knocked up a prawn Korma - not pictured. 

The result, two happy, and slightly fatter curry lovers!


from left to right, Mutton Madras, Chicken Ceylon, Chicken Chasni, Chilli Paneer and Prawn Vindaloo


Close up of the Chasni & the Paneer


Plateful no.1


The remains

The links:
CA's base here https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3772.0
CA's Ceylon here https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3868.0
CA's Vindaloo here https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=3953.0
Zeera Madras here https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5376.0
Micks Chicken Chasni (video) here  http://cbm-mick.blogspot.com/2011/04/chicken-chasni.html
Chilli Paneer here https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=5912.0
Dylan's pilau rice here https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=211.0
The Beer Here

I am happy to confirm this method works a treat!

great vid chewy.  Will definitely give it a go. 

Have always used dried mint in my podinas in the past, I bet fresh tastes better.

Made a curry up once with a bunch of mint, bunch of coriander and yoghurt as the base.  Came out a lovely mint green colour and was really fresh tasting!

I experimented with some garden herbs for curry - the resulting chive and basil potato curry wasn't anything to shout about