{"id":2890,"date":"2010-11-01T23:59:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2010-11-01T23:59:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T23:59:33","slug":"cooking-for-a-large-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/cooking-for-a-large-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooking for a large family"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/5133775348\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1195\/5133775348_9cc18187bb_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pgautier\/5133775348\/\">Onions for 7?<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/pgautier\/\">PhylB<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yesterday, I decided to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0716022044?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thewidblo-21&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1634&#038;creative=6738&#038;creativeASIN=0716022044\">curry sauce<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=thewidblo-21&#038;l=as2&#038;o=2&#038;a=0716022044\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n for more than one or two nights.<\/p>\n<p>So I made a quintuple portion, which should feed about 80.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the recipe in case you&#8217;re interested:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<ul>\n<li>300 ml olive oil\n<li>5 kg onions\n<li>25 ml salt\n<li>250 g fresh ginger, coarsely chopped\n<li>250 g garlic, coarsely chopped\n<li>7.5 litres water\n<li>5 drained tins (1125 g) of tomatoes, blended\n<li>25 ml tomato paste\n<li>25 ml turmeric\n<li>25 ml paprika<\/ul>\n<li>Cut the onions into slices and fry them for ten minutes in 225 ml of oil, then add the salt and fry them for another twenty minutes.\n<li>Add garlic and ginger, add the water, and simmer the mixture for 25 minutes.\n<li>Blend it.\n<li>In another pot, fry the tomato paste, turmeric and paprika in the remaining oil for 30 seconds, then add the blended tomatoes and cook for ten minutes.\n<li>Mix in the onion mixture and simmer it for 25 minutes, skimming off any froth.\n<li>Cool and divide it into 20 equal portions and freeze them.<\/ol>\n<p>These curry sauces can then be used for making lovely restaurant-style curries (as I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/28\/937\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/1666\/\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Onions for 7? Originally uploaded by PhylB Yesterday, I decided to make curry sauce for more than one or two nights. So I made a quintuple portion, which should feed about 80. Here is the recipe in case you&#8217;re interested: 300 ml olive oil 5 kg onions 25 ml salt 250 g fresh ginger, coarsely chopped 250 g garlic, coarsely chopped 7.5 litres water 5 drained tins (1125 g) of tomatoes, blended 25 ml tomato paste 25 ml turmeric 25 ml paprika Cut the onions into slices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}