Making Indian restaurant/take away style curry at home

[Tony01]

Tony, if you want something quick and amazing tonight, go for the madras. Made with spices, base and choice of meat only. No chopping or dicing needed.

That's some day of cooking you had floyd, you must have been in the kitchen all day! Hope it went well!

Daughters birthday party next weekend and I'm making the curry for the adults - my wife and her family are sri lankan so it's always a challenge cooking curry for real specialists but her mum has given me loads of spice tips in the past. Oddly enough I copied down a madras recipe this morning and went to the local sri lankan deli and bought some nice fresh spices. I can use the base I made yesterday (I'll be able to use it all year - almost filled an 18 ltr pot!), should be good!

Thanks again for the link!

[floydmeddler]

Curry night went well. had a great time cooking it too! 18L? Jeeze. What recipe did you use?

[mysterio]

holy Jesus. Have you seen this thread!

HERE

A tandoor made from a beer keg!

AWESOME!

That guy must really like curry

[Tony01]

That guy must really like curry

Can't help thinking that he would have been able to buy one for half the expense! And he's ruined a perfectly good barrel!

Floyd: I can't find it now .. I'll have a better look and get back to you!

[TouLouseLePlot]

Great post! I never heard of anything like this and I'll be giving the recipes a bashing very soon.

Cheers!

[adm]

I made the sauce from the "New Curry Secret" book the the other day, then made a king prawn vindalao and a chicken moghlai. I also made a whole load of chicken tikka for starters and with lots of poppadums, pilau rice and naan bread it was exceedingly good!

I've got half the sauce left over in the freezer for curry later this week.

By the way.....the Tandoor ovens here look pretty good (and their spice prices and delivery aren't too shabby either):

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog ... ories.html

[leedsbrew]

I just made a batch of 'Cori Ander's' base sauce. 2nd batch! It is really good! Will be having a madras strength CTM for tea some night this week!

[floydmeddler]

Excellent. Curry and beer. What else do we need!

[adm]

"Dancing" girls.

[floydmeddler]

Hell yes!

[mdex]

Made my first foray into curry making on new years eve.

Jumped in a little at the deep end and made 3 curries, too many for my first time to be honest. Garlic Chili Chicken, Korma and Makhani (Butter Chicken). Also made blades chicken tikka without the food colouring.

Earlier in the day i'd made a pot of CA's base sauce.

[floydmeddler]

Looks great! Was the Makhani made using a base sauce? If so, how was it?

[mdex]

Looks great! Was the Makhani made using a base sauce? If so, how was it?

The Makhani was from scratch.

http://cr0.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic= ... 2#msg52032

Was a little too tomatoey!?

[floydmeddler]

I'd love to get the Makhani restaurant style 'bang on'. Made an absolute cracking version a few times but it's very time consuming with lots to do the night before etc. Superb though.

[phatboytall]

Great great site! It sounds laughable but "cooking curry as good as the takeaway" was on my list of 2011 objectives! Along with homebrewing more obviously!

Cheers everyone, made my day with this. Can't wait to start at the wknd!

Interestingly me and a few mates did a blind taste test of all the Restaurant "Curry" Beers a few weeks back, interesting results on my beer review blog :
http://thebeerbunker.blogspot.com/2010/ ... curry.html

Happy cooking!