Curry...!!

[Alastair70]

Love a lamb dhansak - please would you share the recipe?

I've been guided by a friend of Persian descent on this iteration, here's my amounts for a really big batch (quantities are from memory). It's better if you can toast and grind whole spices, but i had to make do with ground. Cooked in one pot on a Ninja 9:1.

Spice paste:
3 cloves garlic, 3X the quantity of fresh ginger than garlic (he was very specific about this ratio)
8 finger chillis. Handful of cashew nuts. 3tsp tamarind paste
2tsp each cumin, coriander, turmeric,
1tsp each fenugrek, chilli powder. Blitz everything in a blender

1.2kg diced lamb shoulder, dusted in flour seasoned with lots of black pepper and turmeric

Dhal
2 onions diced, 6 large ripe tomatoes
300g diced sweet potato, 300g buttenut squash (or whatever you fancy)
200g chana dhal, 100g green lentil, 100g red lentil

Method.
Put Ninja on HI-sear.
Seal lamb chunks in a decent amount of oil, remove and deglaze pot with 10-20mls veg stock
Turn Ninja down to medium sear and brown onion slowly for 10-15 minutes.
Add spice paste and cook for 5 minutes then add rest of ingredients for Dhal, the sealed lamb and 400mls veg stock. Season with a little salt and loads of black pepper.

Pressure cook on HI for 45 minutes and allow Ninja to vent naturally.
If you don't have a pressure cooker, cook low for a couple of hours in the oven or a slow cooker instead.

 

[Clint]

Just thrashing up a few onion bajhis for tonight.

 

[obscure]

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Just thrashing up a few onion bajhis for tonight.

Curious what your recipe is for these as they look delicious.

 

[Clint]

2 large onion,thinly sliced
1 tsp each coriander, cumin ,Kashmiri chilli powder
1/4 tsp hot chilli
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
1 green chilli,chopped
About a teaspoon of kasuri methi,dried fenugreek leaf
About 150g of gram flour
2 tbl Spoons corn flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Add water to form a sloppy batter and fry straight away as if you leave it stand the batter will harden due to the gram flour.
I use two dessert Spoons and push spoonfuls into the oil. They puff up with the added bicarbonate of soda and the cornflour makes the batter lighter. Fry until golden. I'll use some of the oil later to cook the curry and mushroom bhaji.

 

[obscure]

2 large onion,thinly sliced
1 tsp each coriander, cumin ,Kashmiri chilli powder
1/4 tsp hot chilli
1/2 tsp turmeric
1 tsp salt
1 green chilli,chopped
About a teaspoon of kasuri methi,dried fenugreek leaf
About 150g of gram flour
2 tbl Spoons corn flour
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Add water to form a sloppy batter and fry straight away as if you leave it stand the batter will harden due to the gram flour.
I use two dessert Spoons and push spoonfuls into the oil. They puff up with the added bicarbonate of soda and the cornflour makes the batter lighter. Fry until golden. I'll use some of the oil later to cook the curry and mushroom bhaji.

Thanks and gives me a way to finally get through the bag of gram flour I bought.

 

[Clint]

I made 10 good sized ones from that recipe probably cost a couple of quid. My mate is round later he's a hungry chap and will see a few off. Any left I'll freeze.

 

[Clint]

After my cuppa I'm gonna cook the tikka then set up the outside cook area to get the curry on.

 

[Clint]

Oil strained for later,subtle onion and fried spice taste.

 

[Clint]

Tikka and precooked peppers and onions.

 

[Clint]

Mushroom bhaji done.

 

[Clint]

I've just rooted out a curry and rice from the freezer and a lone onion bahji from the last batch.
The OB was microwaved on defrost for a few minutes until soft then left for about 5 minutes. I then put it on for 1 minute on high setting to heat it up...it burst into flames!
It's now outside on top of the log store...not on fire! A bit weird,microwave has had the sack.

 

[jof]

It wasn't an electric bahji was it?
(Comment based entirely on Rods reaction)

 

[Clint]

I've brought the thing in and cut it up. Like a lump of coal inside! Dunno what's happened with that.

 

[SMP Brewery]

Forgot about my curry from the other night, I was we’ll pleased as I do the base sauce n stuff and SWMBO does the curry normally, this time I did it and it wasn’t half bad if I do say myself.

I know someone does it outside I can see why, took ages to clean all the fat up.

 

[The Cat]

It wasn't an electric bahji was it?
(Comment based entirely on Rods reaction)

Sounds a lot of arghi bhaji.

 

[foxy]

My wife is visiting her sister with my daughter, just me and the boys home tonight. Snags Biryani, this is a corker!

 

[starseeker]

My wife is visiting her sister with my daughter, just me and the boys home tonight. Snags Biryani, this is a corker!
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Its a shame you live so far away Foxy , you might have had some visitors to help you eat it :)

 

[The Cat]

Had a rice cooker for Christmas just tried it for the first time.

Need to get the ratio of water to rice a little better but it's so easy and quick I guess my diet has started

 

[Agentgonzo]

The murgh makhani (butter chicken) that went with today's Saison

 

[Jim Brewster]

Made my trusty Dal last night ready to heat up for lunch today with a roti, recovering from COVID. Happens to be vegan too, by coincidence. I have to confess I don't like rice and always order curry with chips, so Dal is good because it doesn't need rice, it's a one-pot meal