I don't know any indian recipes that use mooli but you could try this thai recipe

http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/asia/thai/00/rec0065.html

I deep fry them after they have been cut into cubes and of course you can add spices.

Cory and admin.

This moving of posts is all very well but it needs a way of keeping the original author when you do it. i hadn't realised just how annoying this is until now.

I know you know this really but it means United States Indian Restaurants. A perfectly good abbreviation if you ask me.

Hi cory ander

I did experiment with powders only a while back...about 20 years ago, and i wasn't achieving the BIR flavour etc. But 20 years ago i didn't know what I know now. I think i'm going to have to revisit this.

To be fair to Heston I don't think he ever tries to make exact copies of the dishes he makes. What he does is try to perfect a particular recipe by analysing the dish in minute detail and perfecting each process while using the best ingredients. I think if you watch it as a programme that is trying to show you how to make BIR CTM then you will be, as you were, very disappointed.

Quote from: chipfryer on October 18, 2007, 08:01 PM
There is a link online that you might like trying in the meantime?
http://www.angelfire.com/country/fauziaspakistan/acharigosht.html

Except that achari means with pickle or pickled so I don't think it will be what he wants.

I made a pretty good copy of my local version by making a standard restaurant curry and adding one tablespoon of ground methi (dried fenugreek leaf) and one tablespoon unground methi leaf straight out of the packet. I know that's a lot of methi but it is methigosht after all.

Welcome to the forum by the way. 

I'm afraid cracking and fusing are misnomers. As far as I can tell both terms were introduced by Chilli Prawn on this forum and unfortunately have been used ever since.

I think the term cracking was used to imply the release of the natural flavours or oils from the spices and was presumably a confused association with catalytic-cracking which is the process of breaking down large oil molecules to simpler ones, but usually only in the oil industry, and there is no scientific basis for the term as used here.

The fusing term was introduced to characterise the melding of the flavours of the spices by cooking in hot oil at the start of the curry making process. Again it has no scientific basis an is essentially a made up word in this context.

It's a pity we don't have a real food chemist here as they would be able to enlighten us more, but fusing and cracking as used on these forums are just made up terms with no basis in science. Next time you read someone using either term ask them to refer you to a web site that gives a scientific backing to their use of the term...should be interesting.


And the meaning of life?   42. I thought everyone knew that! 

I'll PM you as we'll be annoying everyone otherwise.

In 7zip click on FILE then click on OPEN and select the file named "InSearchofPerfection S2E1.part1.rar" from wherever you downloaded it to. This will join the rar file parts and open its contents which is the video file named "In Search of Perfection S02E01.avi". You can then save this to disk by clicking the "Extract" button. I'm assuming here that you have actually managed to download all six parts of the rar file and that they are all in the same directory.

You can download a good freeware decoder for the rar files here:

http://www.7-zip.org/


and a freeware player here:

http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/en/windows/download.php


I've downloaded the video and it is working.