Spices, hot, medium or mild. Every Indian dish has some sort of spice. Spices bring out the flavour and texture that gives you the distinctive taste in your Indian meal.
The basis of any dish is the spice. Some may say it’s the onions or tomato base, but let me tell you that although this is the base, it taste of nothing until you add the right spices and in the right way.
You can of cause just add spices whilst cooking a curry. However, have you tried lightly roasting your spices in a pan?
Just by themselves, no oil nothing! Just heat a pan then turn it off once it is hot. Add the mixed spices into the pan. Stir them gently and you will release the flavours and aromas trapped in them. Make sure you don't burn the spices, once you can smell the spicy aroma take it out of the pan and leave to cool.
Once cool add them into your dish as usual. You will definitely taste the difference.
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Masala Massi
Monday, 20 December 2010
Friday, 10 December 2010
Knock off Indian Curries
Indian Curries have been the nations favourite for a long time now, but I feel the nation who loves this curry is being taken for a ride. I call them ’Knock off Curries’. If I could get trading standards to investigate, I would!
In the last few years or so a number of popular western chefs as well as some Indian chefs based in the UK, have started to change the traditional & authentic Indian taste by adding things like cream and yogurt into our beloved dishes. Now, apart from Korma which was also created for the western palette, I never include them in my curries. The Indians that do are the ones that have seen it on TV or a cook book and decided to try it.
Recently I got a takeaway from what I thought was a traditional and authentic Indian restaurant near where I live. I ordered a Methi Chicken, but when I got it home, I found that it had cream added to it. The only reason I went there was because I had had the same dish from there a few months before and it was the normal Methi Chicken that it supposed to be. Suffice to say I have not gone back there again.
WHY, WHY , WHY??? I just don’t understand why people have to play around with the basics and take the authenticity out of things. Especially good food!
Have you heard the saying ‘only go into Chinese Restaurants who have Chinese customers, they will be the best’? (or something to that effect) Well I would say the same for Indian restaurants. Indians are the most critical of people around, they will criticise anyone or anything, even if they cannot find anything to criticise about!
Recently I have had pitches at a number of fairs and markets selling my Traditional & Authentic Massi’s Masala Curry Sauce. Whilst I have many satisfied custumers, when it comes to Indians who taste it, most of the time they sit there trying to guess the different spices in the sauce and then retorting, ‘this is just like what we have at home, it is not new!’. WELL OF COURSE IT ISN’T!!!
So back to my point, if you see Indians in an Indian restaurant then I guarantee it will be a good one. Having a hot curry doesn’t make it a good one! Nor the taste you find in Tandoori restaurants up and down the country is necessarily the taste you find in Indian homes.
That’s why Masala Massi intends to bring to you the REAL TASTE OF INDIAN CUISINE and hopes to change the culture of the wider public and bring them into our humble traditional and authentic Indian Homes.
For recipes and other iformation please visit my website: www.masalamassi.co.uk
Next time: Basics of a good Indian Curry……
In the last few years or so a number of popular western chefs as well as some Indian chefs based in the UK, have started to change the traditional & authentic Indian taste by adding things like cream and yogurt into our beloved dishes. Now, apart from Korma which was also created for the western palette, I never include them in my curries. The Indians that do are the ones that have seen it on TV or a cook book and decided to try it.
Recently I got a takeaway from what I thought was a traditional and authentic Indian restaurant near where I live. I ordered a Methi Chicken, but when I got it home, I found that it had cream added to it. The only reason I went there was because I had had the same dish from there a few months before and it was the normal Methi Chicken that it supposed to be. Suffice to say I have not gone back there again.
WHY, WHY , WHY??? I just don’t understand why people have to play around with the basics and take the authenticity out of things. Especially good food!
Have you heard the saying ‘only go into Chinese Restaurants who have Chinese customers, they will be the best’? (or something to that effect) Well I would say the same for Indian restaurants. Indians are the most critical of people around, they will criticise anyone or anything, even if they cannot find anything to criticise about!
Recently I have had pitches at a number of fairs and markets selling my Traditional & Authentic Massi’s Masala Curry Sauce. Whilst I have many satisfied custumers, when it comes to Indians who taste it, most of the time they sit there trying to guess the different spices in the sauce and then retorting, ‘this is just like what we have at home, it is not new!’. WELL OF COURSE IT ISN’T!!!
So back to my point, if you see Indians in an Indian restaurant then I guarantee it will be a good one. Having a hot curry doesn’t make it a good one! Nor the taste you find in Tandoori restaurants up and down the country is necessarily the taste you find in Indian homes.
That’s why Masala Massi intends to bring to you the REAL TASTE OF INDIAN CUISINE and hopes to change the culture of the wider public and bring them into our humble traditional and authentic Indian Homes.
For recipes and other iformation please visit my website: www.masalamassi.co.uk
Next time: Basics of a good Indian Curry……
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