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National Curry Week

November 22, 2009Bottom of the garden, Chilli Newschilli curry, Chilli Recipes, curry, lamb curry Standard

If you didn’t already know then this coming week is national curry week, so today I went out and bought the ingredients to make slow cooked lamb curry, I am also going to get a bottle of Cobra ,If I don’t @kirsty won’t speak to me again, plus Cobra have put a lot of effort into promoting curry week (and their brand ;o) ) they have even set up a find out which curry you are for twtitter users, you can find it here. Curry

It said I was a Bhuna..Bhunas contain strong flavours, with little sauce – much like you, who is straightforward, honest and constantly cuts to the chase.

Apparently that sounds just like me ;o)

They have also added a rather handy curry finder which helps you find the nearest curry house to you, this can be found here

I’m a huge curry fan – nearly 5 years living in Bradford opened my eyes to the wide variety avaible, different methods and just how tasty a proper curry is. I am ashamed to say i don’t often make curry, mainly because we have a couple of brilliant local curry houses so we usually just walk down to those.

But as it’s National Curry Week I am going to make a special effort and make my own curry.

The curry I will be cooking comes from Jamie Oliver’s The Return of the Naked Chef, hopefully he won’t mind me putting it below (I will update the post once I have made it to let you know what it’s like. The only changes I am making are Im going to add some extra veg as I quite like veg in my curry and also I plan to make it the night before then leave it in the slow cooker while we are at work.

So here is the recipe, if you are planning on enjoying National Curry week then please let me know what you have planned and how it goes.

Peter’s Lamb Curry (from Jamie’s book The Return of the Naked Chef) – serves 8.

  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 x 400g tins of chopped tomatoes
  • 285ml/1/2 pint stock or water
  • 1.5kg/3 1/2lb leg of lamb, diced
  • 1 handful of chopped mint and coriander
  • 285ml/1/2 pint natural yoghurt
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • lime juice to taste

Hot and Fragrant Rub Mix

  • 2 tablespoons fennel seeds
  • 2 tablespoons cumin seeds
  • 2 tablespoons coriander seeds
  • 1/2 tablespoon fenugreek seeds
  • 1/2 tablespoon black peppercorns
  • 1 clove
  • 1/2 a cinnamon stick
  • 2 cardamom pods
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper

Curry Paste Ingredients

  • 5cm/2 inches fresh ginger, peeled
  • 2 tennis-ball-sized red onions, peeled
  • 10 cloves of garlic, peeled
  • 2 fresh chillies, with seeds
  • 1 bunch of fresh coriander

Method

Preheat your oven to 170C/325F/Gas 3.

Lightly toast the fragrant rub mix in the oven or under the grill.  Chop the curry paste ingredients roughly, add the rub mix and puree in a food processor.

In a large casserole pan, fry the curry paste mixture in the butter until it goes golden, stirring regularly.  Add the tomatoes and the stock or water.  Bring to the boil, cover with kitchen foil and place in the oven for one and a half hours to intensify the flavour.  Remove the foil and continue to simmer on the stove until it thickens.  This is your basic curry sauce.

Fry the lamb in a little olive oil until golden, then add to the curry sauce and simmer for around 1 hour or until tender.
Sprinkle with chopped coriander and mint and stir in the yoghurt.  Season to taste and add a good squeeze of lime juice.  Serve with spiced breads, steamed basmati rice and lots and lots of cold beer.

Feel free to vary the curry by using diced chicken, prawns or paneer, or vegetables like Swiss chard, spinach, peas, cauliflower, fried aubergine, okra, boiled potatoes, chickpeas or lentils.

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COMMENTS

Kristy November 22, 2009 at 23:11 -

You were right, it is a great post!!

Thanks for all the links and great to see you getting involved in National Curry Week (it’s hardly a tough task!!).

I’ve made this curry and it’s a good one – especially with a King Cobra ;o)

National Curry Week Update | Chilli Up North Blog December 1, 2009 at 10:40 -

[…] Filed in Chilli News on Dec.01, 2009 Well I did my bit for National Curry Week, I made the curry I mentioned here, The only differences were that i added some peppers and green beans to the lamb, and instead of […]

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