Thanks for all your replies. Very big help to me.

I will try cooking the base with the onions whole next time, sounds like a good idea and will save me from having to chop them all up  . I might also try reducing the amount of onion and adding a green pepper and a couple of carrots in there instead. And the sieve idea sounds good as well. 

I have tried to look for Kris's new book from downloading it, but cant find the torrent anywhere, and there aren't many book shops in Thailand for me to buy it. Is her new base anywhere on this forum?

Thanks for that Ray, I really appreciate it.

With the usual recipe- for example I simmer the onion, ginger and garlic base for 40-45 mins. If I triple the quantities how long should I increase that time, and for roughly how much longer?

Hi everyone

I am currently in Bangkok, Thailand and I am about to open a small takeaway and delivery indian and Thai food shop.
I have been practising with great success making the curry base and main dish recipes from Kris Dhillon's book, The Curry Secret. Also, I have adapted some of the dishes and the base slightly from reading some of the posts from this website.
I have found the making of the curry base very very time consuming and hard work  and would like to make it easier for me. So, my question is can I simply triple the quantities like the following and cook it all in one big pot? And, would I have to adjust the cooking times? Also, for the main dish recipes like the chicken tikka masala can I double or triple the ingredients to make larger batches in one go?
Normal ingredients                            Ingredients tripled

900g cooking onions                         2.7 kg cooking onions
50g green ginger                              150g green ginger
50g garlic                                          150g garlic
2 3/4 pint water                                6 pint water
1 teaspoon salt                                 3 teaspoon salt
225g tin tomatoes                             675g tin tomatoes
8 tablespoon vegetable oil                24 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon tomato puree                 3 teaspoon tomato puree
1 teaspoon turmeric                          3 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon paprika                           3 teaspoon paprika


I really appreciate any replies.

Kind regards

Philip