Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
- floydmeddler
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Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
Hi all,
I joined an Indian curry making forum a few months back. Basically the forum administrator's (Cory Ander) aim is to recreate the British style Indian restaurant curry experience at home. A lot of the recipes come from Indian restaurants from around the country and while we here at JBK go on brewery tours with note pads, these curry heads visit their local curry houses for demos then give all the secrets away on the forum afterwards!
Basically, every curry house has its own house base sauce/gravy. This sauce/gravy will be the backbone to all the curries created in that restaurant. One of the forum members found out the base sauce for the Saffron Indian restaurant in Lincoln and shared it on the forum. I make a large batch of this and freeze it. One batch makes me 17 curries!
The actual curry making part is really easy. I can knock up a curry in around 15 mins. Obviously that doesn't include making the rice.
If you like Indian curry house food and enjoy cooking, join the forum!! http://cr0.co.uk/curry/index.php
Here are pictures of my curries. I can 100% confirm, these curries ARE the curry house style curries I've always dreamed about creating at home.
Making the base sauce/gravy:
After cooking for a while and whizzing it up:
Making the chicken Tika. Have since bought skewers!
And finally, the finished Garlic Chili Chicken:
Here are my curries and Chapatti bread from last week:
Chicken Jalfrezzi. Tasted amazing - just what I'd expect from a good quality curry house. However, I'd like it to be redder next time so will use a different chilli powder.
Jalfrezzi, Pilau rice, Chapatti bread and more Garlic Chilli Chicken.
I've also made Chicken Korma, Dhansak and Madras. The Madras is the easiest to make. Basically base sauce, spices and whatever meat you want.
I don't want to give the recipes away here as I think it would be discourteous to do so. Join up if you're interested. You won't regret it.
http://cr0.co.uk/curry/index.php
Mmmmm curry......
I joined an Indian curry making forum a few months back. Basically the forum administrator's (Cory Ander) aim is to recreate the British style Indian restaurant curry experience at home. A lot of the recipes come from Indian restaurants from around the country and while we here at JBK go on brewery tours with note pads, these curry heads visit their local curry houses for demos then give all the secrets away on the forum afterwards!
Basically, every curry house has its own house base sauce/gravy. This sauce/gravy will be the backbone to all the curries created in that restaurant. One of the forum members found out the base sauce for the Saffron Indian restaurant in Lincoln and shared it on the forum. I make a large batch of this and freeze it. One batch makes me 17 curries!
The actual curry making part is really easy. I can knock up a curry in around 15 mins. Obviously that doesn't include making the rice.
If you like Indian curry house food and enjoy cooking, join the forum!! http://cr0.co.uk/curry/index.php
Here are pictures of my curries. I can 100% confirm, these curries ARE the curry house style curries I've always dreamed about creating at home.
Making the base sauce/gravy:
After cooking for a while and whizzing it up:
Making the chicken Tika. Have since bought skewers!
And finally, the finished Garlic Chili Chicken:
Here are my curries and Chapatti bread from last week:
Chicken Jalfrezzi. Tasted amazing - just what I'd expect from a good quality curry house. However, I'd like it to be redder next time so will use a different chilli powder.
Jalfrezzi, Pilau rice, Chapatti bread and more Garlic Chilli Chicken.
I've also made Chicken Korma, Dhansak and Madras. The Madras is the easiest to make. Basically base sauce, spices and whatever meat you want.
I don't want to give the recipes away here as I think it would be discourteous to do so. Join up if you're interested. You won't regret it.
http://cr0.co.uk/curry/index.php
Mmmmm curry......
Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
I.ve been a member for some time too! I use the late great darthpharls base sauce personaly...im famous for me currys in my french locality, so can vouce for cr0 website! ps note that the "0" in cr0 is a number ,not a letter "o"
Steve
Steve
Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
I came across this forum many years ago, not long after it started up. It is rather good!
- trucker5774
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Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
Just joined....looking forward to finding out how to get that authentic taste "that they all have" I guess it's the ghee and the base sauce........don't know what to do with them yet. Been making good curries for years but want to get that "real" taste.
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Conditioning... Doing what? Get it down your neck! ........
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- floydmeddler
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Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
Good man! Keep us posted. Really is brilliant.trucker5774 wrote:Just joined....looking forward to finding out how to get that authentic taste "that they all have" I guess it's the ghee and the base sauce........don't know what to do with them yet. Been making good curries for years but want to get that "real" taste.
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Excellent stuff. I think I'll sign up myself.
There's an excellent (if somewhat old) book on this called "The Curry Secret" and I've been using the recipes from that for a while. It uses the same base sauce approach. In fact, I think I posted on a thread with curry sauce making pics on here a while back. Ah yes....here it is: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=20308&p=243034&hil ... et#p243034
http://www.thecurrysecret.co.uk/
Looks like there's now a "New Curry Secret" book too......click, clickety click....that's on it's way to me now. Isn't Amazon great....
There's an excellent (if somewhat old) book on this called "The Curry Secret" and I've been using the recipes from that for a while. It uses the same base sauce approach. In fact, I think I posted on a thread with curry sauce making pics on here a while back. Ah yes....here it is: viewtopic.php?f=16&t=20308&p=243034&hil ... et#p243034
http://www.thecurrysecret.co.uk/
Looks like there's now a "New Curry Secret" book too......click, clickety click....that's on it's way to me now. Isn't Amazon great....
- floydmeddler
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Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
Checked out your link. Those curries look goooooooood! Plan on doing another curry night in 2 weeks time. Can't wait!
Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
Kris Dhillon's "Curry Secret" books are worth a read too, I have both
http://www.thecurrysecret.co.uk/About%2 ... index.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kris-Dhillon/e/B0034Z7KD8
http://www.thecurrysecret.co.uk/About%2 ... index.html
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kris-Dhillon/e/B0034Z7KD8
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Re: Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home
That looks great, thanks for sharing it with us.
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I just signed up as well. What a great site.
Let the cooking begin !!
Let the cooking begin !!
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Great link - just joined!! Been trying to get this right for ages...
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I used the principles from The Curry Secret book, I think it was that book anyway.
It's all in the base gravy, loads of onions, garlic and ginger, blended and cooked for hours. If tomato is used it should be an accent, not the base. The problem is the stench when you're cooking the stuff, your clothes and house will smell like a curry house for weeks.
It's all in the base gravy, loads of onions, garlic and ginger, blended and cooked for hours. If tomato is used it should be an accent, not the base. The problem is the stench when you're cooking the stuff, your clothes and house will smell like a curry house for weeks.
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It was not that many years ago (5-10?) that there were no tomatoes in (typical UK) Indian or Chinese cooking.
As someone who has a very severe allergy to tomatoes I now have to be very careful
As someone who has a very severe allergy to tomatoes I now have to be very careful
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Cheers for the link matey. Gonna get myself signed up!
I've had the curry secret book since vein a student in Bradford! All the Asian supermarkets are a cracking place to get herbs and spices! Loads cheaper that normal supermarkets!
I've had the curry secret book since vein a student in Bradford! All the Asian supermarkets are a cracking place to get herbs and spices! Loads cheaper that normal supermarkets!