{"id":937,"date":"2008-10-28T22:55:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=937"},"modified":"2008-10-28T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-28T21:55:10","slug":"curry-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/curry-cheating\/","title":{"rendered":"Curry cheating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=thewidblo-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0716020548&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;m=amazon&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" align=\"left\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>Many Indian cookbooks are mostly about Indian home cooking.  The food is nice, but it&#8217;s not what you encounter in Indian restaurants here.<\/p>\n<p>However, some years ago I bought a most astonishing cookbook: <i>The Curry Secret<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a small paperback without any photos, but is teaches you how to do Indian restaurant cooking at home.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is to make a basic curry sauce (which you can make in huge amounts and freeze in practical amounts) and to precook the meat (which again can be frozen).<\/p>\n<p>When you then want to cook a nice curry, you just fry some of the basic sauce with some precooked meat and\/or vegetables, and you add the relevant spices.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, today I cooked both a dopiaza and a korma in less than half an hour.  This was possible because I had made the basic sauce and the meat over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p>Both the curries were lovely and very different &ndash; you couldn&#8217;t tell they were derived than the same sauce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Indian cookbooks are mostly about Indian home cooking. The food is nice, but it&#8217;s not what you encounter in Indian restaurants here. However, some years ago I bought a most astonishing cookbook: The Curry Secret. It&#8217;s a small paperback without any photos, but is teaches you how to do Indian restaurant cooking at home. The trick is to make a basic curry sauce (which you can make in huge amounts and freeze in practical amounts) and to precook the meat (which again can be frozen). When [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,106,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-fooddrink","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937","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=937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}