the takeaway secret

larmy16

MrsE wrote: »

If you are doing slimming world then the 20% fat lamb mince will be a no-no.

Waitrose do a low fat one, its in a small 250g packet & £2.49. Its the lowest fat lamb mince I have found.

Thanks Mrs E, I never knew that. I could have overindulged on kebab meat but for you!

Alton_Towers

I have just made the basic curry sauce up ready to use this week, it is very runny so I will see how it turns out when I make the curry but I am thinking a touch of cornflour may be needed. It is very mild as the basic sauce and does taste good.

midnightraven3

The Gia ones are the same ones I use but since this recipe called for a powder I went out and bought garlic granules and onion granules. Both worked fine in my opinion [/QUOTE]

:osorry my post was for sb44, they were looking for the paste

elf06

elf06 wrote: »

I did neither I completely missed the bit where you turn it over (I never read things properly :rotfl:) and I didnt put in on a rack. I did, however, take it out the oven a couple of times and tip up the baking tray just to get whatever fat there was off the tray.

Hahahahah told you I never read things properly

elf06

Oh dunno what hapened onmy last post but you get the idea

Poppytime

Alton_Towers wrote: »

I have just made the basic curry sauce up ready to use this week, it is very runny so I will see how it turns out when I make the curry but I am thinking a touch of cornflour may be needed. It is very mild as the basic sauce and does taste good.

I made the basic curry sauce on Friday and yes it is runny but does thicken up when you incorporate the other ingredients to make up the curries. I did 4 South Indian Garlic Chilli Lamb Tikkas yesterday and 2 Traditional Chicken Curries. They were really tasty but found them really fiddly to make I have 4 portions of the basic curry sauce left which I have put in the freezer

I also made the naan bread but didn't have any natural yoghurt in the fridge only Greek but I substituted the yoghurt for buttermilk and they turned out fine

zippychick

Poppytime wrote: »

I made the basic curry sauce on Friday and yes it is runny but does thicken up when you incorporate the other ingredients to make up the curries. I did 4 South Indian Garlic Chilli Lamb Tikkas yesterday and 2 Traditional Chicken Curries. They were really tasty but found them really fiddly to make I have 4 portions of the basic curry sauce left which I have put in the freezer

I also made the naan bread but didn't have any natural yoghurt in the fridge only Greek but I substituted the yoghurt for buttermilk and they turned out fine

You can always make your own buttermilk with lemon juice and milk. Give it a good shake /I think you can also use vinegar - something to curdle it.

Can you make HM buttermilk. I do it all the time for wheaten bread

seafarers_wife

im so hungry just reading through this thread, ive gone and ordered the book as well as i love donner and nan bread, my local takeaway back home does a hot donner nan, with a garlic sauce which is divine so i cant wait to make my own.

little_lil

just ordered mine for collection from local WH Smith. Only problem I have is my new cooker isn't connected to gas yet. Not sure what will happen first the book arriving or the cooker connected, either way I can't wait

kazmc

kamcauliffe wrote: »

Ooh this book looks great, thanks for the recommendation. All of the pics look fab. I really want to try making naan bread, I've not made it before. I think its time to make another Amazon order!

I don't know if this will interest anyone, but there a couple of indian recipes I've used before that have worked out really nicely.
I've made these bhajis and they're fab. So good we had them two days running (not so good for the waistline!).
I've also made this curry a few times. The recipe's a bit convoluted but it's set out so you can batch freeze the component sauces that you make. You make a kind of base sauce and then there are ingredients for how to customise the curry into a tikka masala or a jalfrezi etc. Each stage of the recipe is on a different page so you have to click through.

Ooh tried these onion bhajis at the weekend and they are fab!! thanks for the link.
I used normal olive oil instead of rapeseed as the cheapest bottle I good find in tescos was £5 !!! Lot of money just for drizzling.
Also had to substitute the chickpea flour for plain flour as my tescos didnt stock the chickpea flour.....
but they were a great success!! :T