Curry Recipes

One of the problems I have cooking Indian food is that people ask me to make a madras, a jal freizi or a korma. These names mean nothing to me since I cook curry like my mum taught me so I have, over time, had to learn what these terms mean. And whilst I cannot cook British Standard Curry house curries I have got to a point where it is passable to the point I can talk off the inconsistency to the standard as “my take on it”.

That said the vegetable dish I get asked most for is Bombay ...

This is an easy to make ice cream and quite moreish. Sadly the only recipe I have makes loads and loads of it

3 x 400ml cans of evaporated milk
3 egg whites
1 cup icing sugar
1 tsp ground cardamom
1 tbsp rose water
1½ cups of chopped pistachios
¾ cup sultanas
¾ cup flaked (chopped) almonds
3 tbsp glace cherries

1. Remove the labels from the cans, lay the cans in a pan with a tight fitting lid, fill the pan ...

A quick update, some veggie dishes. These can be served as main courses, starters or as an accompaniment to the main course.

Spinach and Potato Curry

500g Spinach
700g potato cut into 1 inch chunks
1 onion thinly sliced
1tsp black mustard seeds
2 crushed garlic cloves
1tsp lazy ginger (or a 1inch piece finely chopped)
1tsp chilli powder
1tsp salt
½ cup of water

1. Wash and trim the spinach, blanch ...

Had this last night having not cooked it for a long time, I'd forgotten what a great flavour it had. If you cant get monkfish then any white fish will do.

1½ tsp ground turmeric
1 tsp salt
1lb monkfish, filleted, deskinned and cut into 1 inch cubes
16 large cooked prawns (I bought a 200g pack which was about right)
1 large onion
2tsp Cumin seeds
2tsp Coriander Seeds
2tsp black peppercorns
4 cloves garlic (1 heaped tsp lazy garlic) ...

The following 2 recipes have been modified, improved and generally messed about with over time to get them to a point where I am happy with them. Being able to do a biriyani in the oven is excellent since this can be left to its own devices whilst you work on other dishes.

Heres something to keep you going, I like this recipe since the cup size for it does not matter as long as you use the same cup (mug) size for all the ingredients.

Pulao Rice

This makes ...