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Tuesday Huesday: National Curry Week

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selection of curry spices
image credit: Angela Malik

It’s National Curry Week so I thought I’d share this photo of a container full of colourful curry spices.

One of the best smells in the world is a blend of cumin, coriander and turmeric being fried off in ghee (you can keep your chilli powder – it makes me cough uncontrollably!). A couple of cardamom pods popped into the saucepan while boiling basmati rice gives it a lovely flavour.

If I could only eat one kind of food for the rest of my life, curry would definitely be my favoured option!

Wednesday Wish: Tala Cook’s Curry Measure

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Tala cook's curry measure available from Amazon

 

Have you been watching Rick Stein’s India that’s currently on BBC2? He’s touring India tasting & making the most fantastic looking curries.

We cook & eat a fair few curries and the programme has got me wanting a few curry-making kitchen implements.I’m going to start with this Tala Cook’s Curry Measure (in orange of course!) Each of the curries I’ve seen made on the show starts with a pungent mix of spices – cardamom, peppercorns, coriander seeds, cumin, curry leaves, turmeric and one that I’d never even heard of before – asafoetida.

The measure gives you the right proportions for making the different spice mixes for chapatis, biryani, rice, pakora, butter chicken, raita, dahl, aloo gobi, jalfrezi and murgh methi.

Also on the wish list is a karahi (or kadai) – one of those vast, circular cast iron pots with handles; a vaghar vadki or tadka (tarka) pan which is used to gently fry the spices in before they’re added to the the curry; and a tava (or tawa) – a flat, circular griddle for making all manner of flatbreads. One item at a time I think!