Mine is simillar.Marinate the meat (shin of beef is a good one for this) overnight in a marinade of yoghurt, garam marsala, salt and pepper. The yoghurt will make the end product nice and creamy.
When you're ready to make your curry, chop a large onion, some garlic and some fresh root ginger. Put them in a big pan on a medium heat with a tiny bit of oil and some salt and pepper. Give it about 8 minutes to sweat down.
Add a teaspoon tomato pureé, some curry powder, some ground fennel seeds, cumin seeds, turmeric and coriander seeds. Let it all cook for another 5 minutes or so. At this point you have a curry paste that you can keep in the fridge for about a week or in the freezer for months.
Add a tin of tomatoes to the paste, along with some curry leaves (dried are fine - you can get them in any supermarket) your meat and yoghurt mix and one green chilli (whole). Add about a pint and a half of stock of some sort - beef for a beef curry, chicken for chicken, obviously.
Simmer gently for about two hours. Take out the whole chilli. If it needs to reduce a bit more, turn up the heat at this point and keep stirring.
As good as anything you can get at a curry house when it's done. Cheaper too. I worked out that once you have the spices in your cupboard, it costs about £1 a portion to make.
Chuck in some fresh coriander if you have it. I like to put string beans in mine too.
EDIT: Obviously the whole 'marinade the meat overnight' doesn't help you now. But give it a try next time. Well worth it. Can be made vegetarian too.
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:30,
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When you're ready to make your curry, chop a large onion, some garlic and some fresh root ginger. Put them in a big pan on a medium heat with a tiny bit of oil and some salt and pepper. Give it about 8 minutes to sweat down.
Add a teaspoon tomato pureé, some curry powder, some ground fennel seeds, cumin seeds, turmeric and coriander seeds. Let it all cook for another 5 minutes or so. At this point you have a curry paste that you can keep in the fridge for about a week or in the freezer for months.
Add a tin of tomatoes to the paste, along with some curry leaves (dried are fine - you can get them in any supermarket) your meat and yoghurt mix and one green chilli (whole). Add about a pint and a half of stock of some sort - beef for a beef curry, chicken for chicken, obviously.
Simmer gently for about two hours. Take out the whole chilli. If it needs to reduce a bit more, turn up the heat at this point and keep stirring.
As good as anything you can get at a curry house when it's done. Cheaper too. I worked out that once you have the spices in your cupboard, it costs about £1 a portion to make.
Chuck in some fresh coriander if you have it. I like to put string beans in mine too.
EDIT: Obviously the whole 'marinade the meat overnight' doesn't help you now. But give it a try next time. Well worth it. Can be made vegetarian too.
sounds nicei would leave out the yoghurt and tomato, though, and concentrate more on hot spices and garlic.
i love hot food :)
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:33,
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The yoghurt actually helps the spices penetrate into the meat when marinating.This has been proven by Science.
Without that and the tomatoes (which melt and disappear as it simmers) you don't really get a proper sauce. Not a saucey sauce anyway. It ends up being more of a spicy broth - which is okay I guess.
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:35,
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Without that and the tomatoes (which melt and disappear as it simmers) you don't really get a proper sauce. Not a saucey sauce anyway. It ends up being more of a spicy broth - which is okay I guess.
i knowbut i really don't like yoghurt in curry. mine was more of a garage curry quick fix anyway. i'm actually a very good cook, i didn't get this fat by accident! :D
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:37,
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Use creamed coconut instead.Maybe not for the marinade though.
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:39,
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i shall give it a gonext time i have guests. not much point when it's just for me, i can only eat a tiny amount.
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:46,
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That's good for the sauce, but you need the fat content to get the spices to go into the meat.I don't really understand all the Science of it, but I heard a scientist say it once on television and he had a beard and a white coat and everything.
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:47,
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If you're after fat content, coconut has much more than yoghurt.I think it's the acid in the yoghurt that helps, but I may be wrong.
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:54,
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Yeah I recognise that mine doesn't really help PointlessCamel in his current predicament.I tend to make a big ol' batch of it once a month and freeze it in individual portions.
i do that with soup
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thanks Smash/Drgreat advice
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:40,
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you're welcomeenjoy your curry :)
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 20:45,
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I made a curry in ten minutes last weekNot including the rice.
When the rice is about done, chop up an onion and fry it with a crushed clove of garlic and a chopped red chilli. When the onion is going nice and golden, add a load of chicken.
After about 3 minutes, add about half a teaspoon of cumin, the same amount of coriander seeds, a teaspoon of tumeric and a teaspoon of curry powder.
Then a healthy squeeze of tomato puree and mix it all up.
Whack in a decent dollop of natural yoghurt, stir it up, and then serve it with the ricde and a bit of fresh coriander.
Nom nom nom.
Actually it's the same as yours except it too ten minutes, not two days :o
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Mon 12 Oct 2009, 21:57,
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When the rice is about done, chop up an onion and fry it with a crushed clove of garlic and a chopped red chilli. When the onion is going nice and golden, add a load of chicken.
After about 3 minutes, add about half a teaspoon of cumin, the same amount of coriander seeds, a teaspoon of tumeric and a teaspoon of curry powder.
Then a healthy squeeze of tomato puree and mix it all up.
Whack in a decent dollop of natural yoghurt, stir it up, and then serve it with the ricde and a bit of fresh coriander.
Nom nom nom.
Actually it's the same as yours except it too ten minutes, not two days :o