Curry

[pinkiefriend]

I want to make a curry from scratch. I'm using leftover turkey from a bird i cooked over the weekend. I dont know how to cook curry from scratch and would like to know an easy recipe using spices. I would also like to know what other ingredients I should use. This curry will be getting frozen so i can eat it at later dates. Thanks for your help.

[Poppy]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/turkeycurry_7 8850.shtml

Hope this helps! Sounds tasty!

[andyjevs]

I didn't read the above recipe but here's how i do mine.

I stir fry some diced chicken breast (sub your turkey) in a wok with some olive oil, chopped garlic, chopped ginger, garam masala, cumin, turmeric, corriander and cloves. Add either fresh or dried chilli to your taste.

When browned, add a big tub (500ml) of natural yoghurt and half a tin of coconut milk. Stir well and simmer quite vigorously until the mix reduces to a nice thickish sauce. I also add peppers, mushrooms, onions and pineapple to the simmering mix.

When the sauce starts to thicken, add about 200 ml of single or double cream, stir in and continue to simmer until your sauce is to your liking.

I find the addition of a few squirts of lemon juice is nice and if the mix needs sweetening, i add a sprinkling of sugar to taste.

Right at the end, stir in a little chopped corriander leaf.

You can tailor any of the above, either leaving out some of the above stuff or adding your own. Some people also add tomato puree or blended tomatos but they're not for me.

Good luck

[squirtle]

may i recommend you pound your ginger and garlic in a pestle and morter into mush so you don't end up with little lumps of ginger, i just think it flavours it more evenly.

[andyjevs]

well i don't !!!

[WoWo]

Maybe you should start then.

[squirtle]

<PRE>sorry andyjevs didn't mean to offend its just the way it was recommended in a recipe for 'kerala chicken'. It brings out the juice of the ginger in case it tends to be a bit woody.</PRE>