help please ASAP hubby home soon ive trashed our dinner

[EmilyandLola]

cooked a chicken curry earlier, consisting of

frying off onions
adding ground coriander
ground cumin
turmeric, mushrooms (to eat them up)
toasted pine nuts
flaked almonds,
chicken boobs slashed up,

and a big dollop of yoghart

but its really horrid

i ploshed some water in it to cook it down, but its not very flavoursome...
help me jazz it up

Got any spinach to chuck in? Or better still an aubergine that you can dice up and fry in lots of lovely oil to add to it? My crap curries often don't have enough fat in!! Also you probably need more spice - chilli would be good.

Phone him and tell him to pick up a takeaway on the way home.

add more spices - sounds like the water has diluted them all
If you have some fresh parsely then throw a load of that on as well as some spring onions

Aaah how sweet. Wont he just be chuffed that you've gone to such an effort even though its yuk?

No advice by the way. I'm no good at cooking things that are not pasta.

I'd go with Snaf's suggestion

cilli powder, lemon juice, teaspoon of sugar, 1/4 teaspoon of salt.
Copped tomatoes always good.
Any fresh herbs? Coriander always good.

ginger and garlic essential in curry

second the garlic & chilli also salt & pepper are often my forgotten ingredients prior to tasting

Put some coconut milk in if you have any along with garlic etc

oh right, well its got garlic, sorry, added that at the time i fired off the onions, i have an aubergine lurking in my fridge, il have a go...

any suggestions for any thing other than rice? or to jazz up rice? ive got naans too

fresh corriander and lime

poppadoms, and mix some mint and cucumber in with some natural yoghurt

put some raisins and dried apricots in the rice

how would you ladies cook perfect basmatti?

Rinse basmati in several changes of water, until it runs clear. Cook with double volume of water if in a covered pan, or 2 and half times volume of water to rice if uncovered pan. Add a couple of bruised cardamom pods, a couple of cloves and a cinnamon stick broken up, it will add a lovly aromatic flavour to the rice.

for 2 people - 2 teacups of rice. Put in a pan with a tight fitting lid. Rinse until clear (cloudy water = starch). Add 3 teacups of water, NO SALT (in our house). Put a layer of tin foil over the top, then put the lid on.
Bring to boil, then lower heat to simmer for about 10 minutes. NO peeking - the water will evaporate and the rice will steam to perfection.

If I muck anything up I usually find stirring a big lump of butter through it puts it right.Not very healthy though

added the aubergine 15 mins ago approx, its still hard, o pants

Stick a couple of spoonfuls of mango chutney in.

ewww.... really?

How'd it go?

bit dry, after constant re heating on behalf of DP whilst I bathed LO!

It was ok, the naan was yummy (thank you tesco finest) and for the first time ever I cooked perfect rice, wooooooooooo

cheers everyone
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