I find that green pepper is easily picked out in a base or final curry. Before upping the quantity, you might want to see if the BIR you are trying to emulate has noticeable green pepper. If not you may be barking up the wrong tree.

As for toms, I've always felt that BIR curries seem more tomatoey.

-- Josh

SnS - the content is here: http://www.curryfrenzy.com/curry/html/curry-recipes.asp

Tried the madras and korma. Wasn't happy.

Yes, they don't have purees (garlic, ginger, tomato) in tubes here, so until I got the freezing tip, I was wasting a lot. I will probably try growing coriander next spring to see how that works.

Thanks Mick.

On advice I tried this with tomato puree and it works well.

Never been happy with the results using coriander though.

I tried a few of these on the curry frenzy site before I found cr0.

Disappointing.

-- Josh

Makes sense. The naans I get like this are bubble-free.

Thanks Haldi!

-- Josh

QuoteWe could get a paypal link that we all could donate to. We could then bribe / pay some BIR chef into one of our homes i would be willing to donate. What are your thourghts?

At this point, why not.

Anyone up to putting the question to a top notch BIR head chef?

We could experiment with chick peas, mooli radishes, poppadom oil, etc, etc. A thorough demo with 100% documented ingredients, method, cookware, etc is what we need.

Anyone else in?

I still think we should find a BIR chef who is willing to help us out. There has to be a solution to the last 5%. Nothing I've read convinces me of the "cannot do it at home" argument.

Interesting that you use two different recipes depending on where you cook them.

I use Pacman's naan recipe as well. Once I got the tip to add a little extra oil to get them more pliable, this became my usual.

What do you believe the knife prick does to the naan. There's an Indian restaurant near me that I use for naan sometimes (its authentic, not anywhere near BIR, hence naan only). Their naan seems to be stabbed all over, some of the pricks causing small holes.

Just wondering the significance of this...

-- Josh

Looks fantastic. Out of the tandoor I assume.