Is it easy to cook curry?

[Europilgrim]

I've never really done it properly but I am missing curries and there is noone near me that does a decent curry! If you have any great curry recipes (or even recommendations for books) I would love to hear them. Thanks.

BBC good food ! I've cooked a lot of curries off there and they've all been lovely.

BBC good food do a wicked spinach and broccoli curry .

I can’t remember it 100% but I usually start it off by blending tinned toms, decent bit of ginger, garlic, an onion, frying in oil with cumin, tumeric, ground coriander, and a bit of curry paste (madras or balti maybe) .

Add teaspoon of marmite, can of coconut cream, lentils, simmer . Then add zest and juice of a lemon, chickpeas, spinach, broccoli and leave to cook for a bit .

Add cashew nuts and sesame seeds, and fresh coriander ... serve with naan bread . Delicious .

Bbcgoodfood definitely. They often use Pataks pasted which are very good and easy.

It’s your spice mix that really makes it find, if you can crack that (with a recipe!) you’ll be fine whatever veg you chuck in . DM uses peas, potatoes, bananas, sweet potato and apple...

Yes, it can be. It depends on the recipe, of course - some are much more involved than others. But you can definitely do it if you have the main aromatics like ginger, garlic, onions and the requisite spices.

We’re doing our favourite dahl tomorrow! Along with curried roasted broccoli and chapati. Can’t wait.

There are loads of Madhur Jaffrey recipes on line - I swear by her!

Yes, and it’s delicious! I really like Meera Sodha’s Made in India - the recipes are easy to follow and come out well. This chicken curry is my favourite meerasodha.com/what-my-mother-taught-me/

I would recommend the Mowgli Street food cookbook by Nisha Katona (the person behind the mowgli restaurants). Fab recipes that work every time.

I really like the Gordon Ramsay chicken tikka masala.

It doesn't taste like a masala but I like it just as much.

BBC good food is really good.

I use allrecipes.com. Jalfrezi is easy enough.

I love Rick Stein's India, but Madhur Jaffrey is great too.

It depends on whether you want a curry that tastes like the ones from your local takeaway or not. British Indian Restaurant curry requires certain techniques and ingredients - but it's perfectly possible to make at home. Look for books by The Curry Guy on Amazon - or do a Google on BIR style curries. There's quite a lot of preparation involved, including making a base sauce/gravy and pre-cooking your main ingredient - but that can be done in bulk, and frozen in portions - and then the curries themselves are short-order food, as you'd expect from kitchens that have to supply food at short notice.

Marinate chicken chunks in yoghurt and tikka spices overnight
Cook in a hot oven next day for twenty minutes

Meanwhile fry Garam masala, cumin, paprika and mustard seeds for a minute over a medium heat in veg oil
Add one large finely chopped onion and a bit more oil and salt. Cover and cook on a low heat until onion translucent and soft.
Turn up the heat add a can of passers, fill the cans with water and add. Then add double cream equivalent of Passata. Add the chicken and the cooking juices in and cook for at least twenty minutes until thick.
Add a juice of a line, some fresh chopped chilli and heaps of coriander when off the heat.

Divine

I think it’s easy to make a curry but to make really good curry takes practice, so you really know what spices to combine in what ratios. I rate Atul Kouchhar recipes. Plenty online.

I use Matma's Kitchen website here

It is a family that has put their recipes on line to share with their kids when they left home.... it has grown from there. Everything I have tried has been spot on - but not take away style. For takeaway style ones I use The Curry Guy.

This was on of my children’s without coriander

Madhur Jaffrey is so good - and the way she writes is quite beginner-friendly too. I'd swear by her Ultimate Curry Bible (although tend to use less oil than she does).

A packet of each main spice from an Asian shop is much better value than the little supermarket pots!

@Cleverpolly3 I'm
Going to make that at the weekend

@Unescorted
I use Mamta's kitchen too and I'm very good friends with her daughter
Her lamb biryani is to die for.

You need The Curry Secret book. Its a recipe book to make curries like UK restaurants. It's a faff, takes all day but you can make a big batch of gravy and use it for different recipes.

I've dine numerous recipes from all sorts of places and this is the most authentic I have tried.

I can do it so yes I found a good recipe on a blog called easy peasie foodie or something like that

@IHaveBrilloHair can you pass on my thanks. It is the most awesome site. I love the Garam Masala and Chaat Masla mix - a pinch in a jar sauce makes me into a 10 minute dinner hero. Also The Mango Chutney is to die for .... I am there picking the greenest Mangos as soon as Aldi put them on the super 6. I make in year batches.

I follow Atol Kochhar too - his recipes are great, can't quite believe I've made them sometimes. They take a while but nothing is difficult.

Sorry posted too soon...

When I have time the recipes are soooooo good. I will try the Byriani

Second the meera sodha books. The hairy bikers curry book is also a good place to start.

I'm not a fan of the restaurant style recipes but what makes the difference is the onions. They are the start of most home style curries and you cook them low and slow and don't skimp on the oil or else they'll burn and not caramelise evenly. I've just had a chicken and spinach coconut curry for dinner which took about an hour to make, while I did other stuff and the chicken, spinach and coconut all went in during the final 15 minutes.