I have always loved Indian food, I've been around the sub-continent a fair bit and it varies a lot but rarely disappoints. Otherwise I've eaten my fair share of Indian food in London and other cities, and I eat a lot of it here too.
Meanwhile,there are some local dishes I like, and a fair few I'll say I don't. Is there some secret mixture of Indian herbs and spices that I could introduce to the kitchen here to make the food slightly more palatable?
Indian and local cuisine query.
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Indian and local cuisine query.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
There is a big difference between eating Indian food in a restaurant, and preparing it at home from basic herbs and spices.
Are you an accomplished chef, or is a cheese sandwich the limit of your talents?
Easier, safer, faster, and most likely cheaper to arrange a takeaway service from your favourite local Indian.
Are you an accomplished chef, or is a cheese sandwich the limit of your talents?
Easier, safer, faster, and most likely cheaper to arrange a takeaway service from your favourite local Indian.
Don't agree with Billy.
You get very satisfactory results with ready made spices and mixtures if you're going for Indian food.
There's no need to make your own curry powders and masalas (though the results will be noticeably better).
Re Cambodian food I'm afraid you'll have to make up your mixtures yourself. Even the kreung currys in the market aren't the 'finished' product. Cambodian home cooking can be very labour intensive but it's better than restaurant food. Just my opinion.
You get very satisfactory results with ready made spices and mixtures if you're going for Indian food.
There's no need to make your own curry powders and masalas (though the results will be noticeably better).
Re Cambodian food I'm afraid you'll have to make up your mixtures yourself. Even the kreung currys in the market aren't the 'finished' product. Cambodian home cooking can be very labour intensive but it's better than restaurant food. Just my opinion.
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i always make my own masalas, piece-o-piss and tastes radtastical
So tell me the secret!SunSan wrote:Don't agree with Billy.
You get very satisfactory results with ready made spices and mixtures if you're going for Indian food.
There's no need to make your own curry powders and masalas (though the results will be noticeably better).
I find decent Indian food difficult to prepare.
Indian food
It is easy enough to get a tin of curry concentrate, add an onion and some chicken to get a standard curry, and serve it with rice, but that is er.. boring.
What about a mix of decent fresh spices.
What about the fragrance of fresh coriander.
What about a Tandoori oven for Tandoori and Tikka (and Chicken Tikka Masala).
What about poppadums, pickles, mango chutney, pakoras, samosas, onion bhajis, and the all important(garlic) Naan Bread.
I don't mean tins or those ready made Jap curries you get vacuum packed. I mean exactly what I wrote, curry powders and masalas. I've made them myself but don't have the tome here to get each individual ingredient, dry fry it and then pound it to powder. If you do, good on you, the taste is better than bought, ready- to- use curry powder.BillyB wrote:So tell me the secret!SunSan wrote:Don't agree with Billy.
You get very satisfactory results with ready made spices and mixtures if you're going for Indian food.
There's no need to make your own curry powders and masalas (though the results will be noticeably better).
I find decent Indian food difficult to prepare.
Indian food
It is easy enough to get a tin of curry concentrate, add an onion and some chicken to get a standard curry, and serve it with rice, but that is er.. boring.
What about a mix of decent fresh spices.
What about the fragrance of fresh coriander.
What about a Tandoori oven for Tandoori and Tikka (and Chicken Tikka Masala).
What about poppadums, pickles, mango chutney, pakoras, samosas, onion bhajis, and the all important(garlic) Naan Bread.
I don't use much fresh coriander in curries, but I know in a real British Indian curry it's absolutely necessary.
I have a friend who made his own tandoor here but he has an Indian restaurant. I don't have one at home, only make curries and occasionally dhal. Re tikka, it's part of British Indian cuisine, not really of Asian Indian. Not saying it's bad, just that it's something foreign to Indians who haven't been to the UK.
Poppadams no problem to buy, you really make them at home from scratch? Same goes for pickles and chutnets. Don't deep fry at home either, so no pakoras, bhajis or samosas. Naan, see what I wrote about the tandoor.
I could probably work up enough energy to make chapattis and puris, they're easy, I used to make them at home... but then again, maybe not.
Scored this banging Indian pickles from a nice indian lady on facebook- pwoper Brit balti house style stuff that they bring out with the poppadoms. She said she'd start selling in in PP night market too. 100% recommend.
'No preservatives, 100% natural ingredients, a good source of probiotics, and vegan homemade Indian pickles are now available on the trial pack. We have 4 flavors: sweet mango pickle, chili pickle, hot & spicy mango pickle, and mixed pickle.
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'No preservatives, 100% natural ingredients, a good source of probiotics, and vegan homemade Indian pickles are now available on the trial pack. We have 4 flavors: sweet mango pickle, chili pickle, hot & spicy mango pickle, and mixed pickle.
You can contact via telegram : +85593985344 for more details."
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