You know that very mild green coloured curry that has apples and raisins in it that we grew up with?

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How do you make it??

Oooh, yes please, with hard boiled eggs in it too?.
Chip shop curry sauce?

and sliced bananas with dessicated coconut on top, on the side.

School curry was like that. It stank of curry powder, but tasted of fruit salad in gravy.

I know the one you mean and would love to make it - I seem to remember it more yellow than green.

This might be worth a try (no sultanas but a mutton curry recipe adds them with the curry powder), it's from a 1960's Good Housekeeping cookery book (I don't have a kitchen for 3 weeks or I'd try it out!)

1 onion
half an apple
1 oz butter
2-3 tsps curry powder
1 tbsp flour
half pint stock
cold roast chicken
squeeze of lemon juice
a little cream, if liked

Slice the onion, chop the apple, fry in the hot butter until golden brown

Stir in curry powder & flour
Add stock gradually and bring to the boil, stirring.

Season with salt, cover, & simmer gently for about half an hour

Add chicken, cut into neat pieces, to the pan & heat gently for a few minutes, without boiling, until the meat is thoroughly hot

Stir in the lemon juice and cream, if using.

"Dish with a border of boiled rice and garnish with lemon fans, chopped parsley and parika pepper" (I remember curry being served ina circle of rice!)

My mum used to make it with minced beef . Yes, it should definitely be served in a circle of rice. You need bog standard curry powder to make it, that will give it the lovely yellowish/green colour. Yum!

and you have to add chopped banana, peanuts and sultanas. Yummy sicky yellow colour

my kids laugh when i tell em my first ever cooked for a boyfriend meal was vesta curry....

Fantastic thank you! I will make it this week and report back! Kids ill at the mo so no point til they're better!

fruit salad in gravy - I don't think I can imagine anything more revolting...

Christ no. My gran made this shit. Looked like baby diahorrea. She put dessicated coconut, banana and sultanas in it.

Please don't feed this to your children.

Your kids will be ill after you give them this

I still have nightmares about that filthy stuff. It was my brother's favourite so we had it far too often for my liking. Please don't!

Yuck

My DH loves this sor tof curry. I have to admit, it does give a lovely feeling of nostalgia, even though it's wrong.

I do:

-onions
-diced chicken or beef (my gran used to use minced beef!)
-garlic
-curry powder
-water
-creamed coconut
-tin of tomatoes
-sultanas
-diced apple
-cornflour
-ground almonds if wanted.

I just fry the onions in some oil, then take them out and add the chicken until browned. Put onions back in, add curry powder and crushed garlic, then add some water and everything else. Cook for 30 mins ish and then thicken with cornflour mixed with a bit of water if it needs it.

It turns out lovely.

the stuff that looks and smells a bit like newborn poo?

We never had that, although I saw it at school.

We had Uncle Ben's Chicken Korma.

Apple, and sultanas, in curry?
What fresh hell is this?

My DS always says that school curry is the best. It has a yellow sauce apparently. I suspect it is basically chicken and sugar, but I might try one of these.

veggie and bananas

I'm guessing you weren't around in the seventies.

oh god you have brought back dreadful memories of my mother's 'dhal'

red lentils, tinned tomatoes, marmite, dessicated coconut, curry powder

cooked into oblivion

served with boiled rice

and a salad of chopped tomato, banana, cucumber, and raisins

uuurrrgggghhhhh

Bananas?

LOL I was in Sri Lanka in the 70s.

Eating fish and chips with peanut butter, bits of trifle sponge, twiglets and tooty-frooties broken up and mixed into the batter.

Not really - but the principle's the same

Is it a Vesta curry? I don't think I have ever had one but my Mum talks lovingly of them but cannot eat a "real" curry iykwim?

Ah, veggie, I see. I should've specified not in the UK in the seventies. Or maybe more specifically my mum's house

Don't flame me but Morrisons budget jar of curry sauce, cost 14p a jar is the flavour you are looking for and it has raisins in it.

Absolutely delicious

My mum use to make something similar to this when I was little it definitely was not a favourite of mine! Can even recall the smell.

Oh god yes - the infamous "curry" Now I know where my mum got the recipe from

Is it wrong to serve curry with a ring of rice round it then?[wink}

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