It stands to reason that curry goat is best made with goat, but goat meat can prove difficult to find. I scoured nearly every butcher I knew in the hope of finding it, from my normal, trusted shop right through to the tiny halal places in the back streets of Bradford. Nobody had goat. Nobody [...]
This is a first for me. It’s the first time I’ve cooked a curry that doesn’t have any chilli in it at all. Not one single bit. None. Instead, this is a simple dish that relies on the delicate depth of its spicing for character and body. This is an excellent dish for those times [...]
Most meat-based curries from the sub-continent use lamb, mutton or goat as their core ingredient. Beef isn’t used widely, mainly for religious reasons…the Hindu sacred cow is never destined for the pot. Traveling around India, you quickly become used to the sight of cows wandering around the streets, unflustered by the traffic mayhem around them, [...]