Curdled curry / dinner

thriftlady_2

absfabs wrote: »

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I suppose I was tempted by fewer calories or less sat fats (can't remember exact details)

But more transfats (from the hydrogenated vegetable oil) which are worse for you then sat fat;) Eat real food I say:D

absfabs

thriftlady wrote: »

But more transfats (from the hydrogenated vegetable oil) which are worse for you then sat fat;) Eat real food I say:D

:shocked: Oh, I didn't notice those ! _pale_

Thanks!

Bongedone

thriftlady wrote: »

But more transfats (from the hydrogenated vegetable oil) which are worse for you then sat fat;) Eat real food I say:D

I did not realise it contained trans fats. Just check my tub. Going in the bin now.

Thanks for the heads uup.

lil_me

I always use single cream, take it off the heat and cool slightly then add it, if it boils it can curdle but I haven't had a problem doing it this way. Coconut milk etc I do exactly the same. If I am doing curry in a dish all posh (as DP calls it) I put a line of cream through the middle too swishing through it in a few places then sprinkle with flaked almonds, mmmm!

Stephen_Leak

absfabs wrote: »

sounds nice, thank you :j

You're welcome. Enjoy.

For the medium beef version, swap the chicken for beef, increase the chilli powder to ½ a teaspoon, and omit the yoghurt and coconut.

I particularly like the flexibility in these recipes. By using separate chilli powder, garam masala and turmeric, you are in effect making your own curry powder. By adjusting the relative quantities, you can adjust the hotness, spiciness and colour respectively. For my next batch, I might tweak the chilli powder back up to ½ a teaspoon.

I specify plum tomatoes, because you can use these whole for other things and also chop them up, whereas it is difficult to stick ready chopped tomatoes back together again.

The original recipe specified coconut milk powder, but it isn't readily available. The packs of creamed coconut are available in ASDA. A 200g pack costs 38p, contains 4 x 50g sachets at just 9.5p per sachet and does the business.

Kelinik

I'm in desperate need of some clever OS brains. I've recently bought a slow cooker and after a couple of initial disappointments have been getting good results from it. It comes in particular handy on a Friday when my girls have trampolining club which results in them (us) getting back very tired and hungry and needing dinner asap. Its been working out well until today....

...found a recipe for a chicken casserole (been eating mainly mince/beef/veggies from slow cooker thus far) which I followed and have been to check just now. It smells lovely but looks like vomit!

I didn't know you couldn't put milk in a slow cooker until about 10 mins ago when google filled me in and yep said recipe has a pint in - the whole things curdled. Thing is we only buy free range meat from a local farm (costly!) therefore chicken breast is a very rare treat in this house. Slow cooker has 4 chicken breasts and 6 rashers of bacon in (am bulk cooking for the freezer), if I have to throw it away I'm gonna have the right hump with myself!!!

Is there anything can be done to save my dinner, strain the meat, add something magical to fix it, anything? Would it actually make us ill or does it just look gross? We leave for the girls club in less than half an hour and i've no idea what we're going to eat if this meal is beyond saving.

I'm normally a pretty good cook so I'm blaming being 8 months pregnant! HELP!

zippychick

Hi Kelinik!:hello:

Bless you! Hmmm need to think and have a search for threads for you. Have you tried taking out a bit of chicken and slicing it? Could you make the meat and a white sauce the base of a pie? Or a pasta bake with cheese sauce and added new veg and the salvaged meat?

I'm sure someone can help salvage it. Don't worry.......x:A

Kelinik

hiya zippy, ta for replying. The meat is all cut up, forgot to say that, you reckon I could retrieve it from the er...interesting sauce?

zippychick

Kelinik wrote: »

hiya zippy, ta for replying. The meat is all cut up, forgot to say that, you reckon I could retrieve it from the er...interesting sauce?

Hmm Don't see why not. It's worth a try anyway? Try a ladel full or two at a time - does the meat taste ok?

Curdled curry - off to read it myself now!
This might be worth a try? Not sure.... other suggestions from google suggest lemon juice. Maybe strain the veg and meat out first - and see if you can save the sauce . Then if you can't , at least the meat isn't further tarnished by what ever you try? That's what I would try.

Kelinik

You're a star, have tried putting some cornflour paste in now and will experiment with the meat when we get in. x