Meat Curry recipes and tips.

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Does anybody have a meat curry recipe that I can use to impress the inlaws? They're very up themselves so it has to be impressive. Tips on cooking curry are also appreciated as I'm quite new to it. Thanks

Cooking meat curry is rather difficult because meat takes longer to cook. Here i will try to explain an easy way to cook a traditional meat curry the easiest way or the way it's cooked in indian Resturaunts. first boil the meat as soon as it come to the boil run it under cold water. In a liquidizer roughly chop up 3 onions half a cup of water two tomatoes. now in a deep saucepan heat up 3 tablespoons of oil. add three cloves of garlic a thumb size piece of ginger and a teaspoon of cumin seeds chopped once they change colour slightly add your onion mixture. let it cook until everything looks shiny. Keep the heat low even though this will make the cooking process longer it's easier as you wont burn anything. if the mixture doesnt look glassy or it looks like it will stick add more oil. now add 2 teaspoons of curry powder You should buy this from your local indian shop. A curry powder is a blend of different spices the supermarket variety are bland and lack pundgency. Now add two teaspoons of turmeric this will give the dish a nice golden colour. let this cook for a few mins until the colour changes slightly it should become a deeper darker orange colour usually just 2 mins should do this. now add your meat. stir in well and put the lid on
when adding the meat add half a cup of water this will stop it from sticking to the pan.
after five mins add boiling water from a kettle the water should be enough to cover the meat. now let it simmer for upto an hour oor until the meat is tender. once the meat is tender add fresh coriander place the lid on and put the heat up high for 2 mins then take off the heat. it is very important that you do not take the lid off for another 10 mins. it is at this time that all the oils rise and the meat relaxes and takes on all the flavour. What you can do is in a frying pan add a teaspoon of oil and cut a capsicum into bite size chunks and fry skin side down then mix the pieces into your curry when you serve this gives a nice texture. Also meat curry tastes better when cooked twice so if you cook this at lunch time you can just reheat it in the evening and the meat will take on a darker colour and the flavours will intensify. In fact your local curry house will re heat it for 2 days before serving it