Herbies Spices Recipes

Herbie's Saturday Curry
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Description

Herbie makes this tasty curry on Saturday to enjoy on Sunday.  During Thursday-night spice classes, he would make a sweet spice, then add other spices to show how a traditional Madras-style curry powder comes into being.  The resulting curry mix caused a curry to be cooked on the Saturday after the class.

Ingredients
At a glance
Chicken & Pork
Red Meat
Serves
2-4 depending on appetite

2 tablespoons Herbie's Spices Curry Powder Medium Madras
2 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon Herbie's Spices Panch Phora
1 onion chopped
500g beef, lamb or chicken cut into 2cm cubes
2 teaspoons lemon juice
400g can whole peeled tomatoes & 400mL water
2 teaspoons Herbie's Spices Garam Masala
2 tablespoons tomato paste
8 Herbie's Spices Curry Leaves Whole
salt or Herbie's Spices Chaat Masala to taste

Methods/steps
  1. Heat a heavy based pan, add curry powder and dry roast, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon for around 2 minutes, being careful not to burn. 
  2. Add oil and make into a paste, add panch phora and stir until seeds start popping. 
  3. Add onion and stir over a medium heat for 2 minutes, being careful not to overcook. 
  4. Add meat, about 6 pieces at a time, making sure each piece is browned and coated with spices.  If the meat and spices begin to stick to the base of the pan, add about a tablespoon of water and stir well. 
  5. When all the meat has been stirred in, add lemon juice, tomatoes and water, roughly chopping tomatoes while stirring.  Sprinkle garam masala over the surface. 
  6. Add tomato paste, curry leaves and salt, stir and turn off heat.  Place the lid on the pot and place in oven at 125ºC for 2 hours.  Chicken will need less cooking time. 
  7. Allow to cool, store in fridge, then heat and serve next day.
Additional Tips
Like most curries, the leftovers are even better, if you can bear to leave any!  If using chicken for this recipe, "lovely legs" or thighs with bone would work well.
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