curry

Moghul lamb with onions and raisins

June 4, 2011 Food & drink

Indian and Pakistani food is rich and varied. I’ve cooked countless lamb or mutton curries, each with the same basic method and ingredients, each of which have been vastly different because of subtle differences in spicing and small tweaks in ingredients. The length of the list of spices that go into most curries means that [...]

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Chana masala, or chickpea curry

March 27, 2011 Food & drink

Indian cookery doesn’t have to be complicated, and it needn’t take a long time. Here’s proof. If you’re good at chopping things up, you could have this chickpea curry on the table in about twenty-five minutes, for under about £3 for four servings. The building blocks of the curry go into the pan first. Heat [...]

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Goan-style pork vindaloo

March 13, 2011 Food & drink

This is it. This is the most abused, mistreated and misrepresented curry in the whole of the world. There isn’t another Asian dish that comes close to this one in terms of how people view it. Its reputation is right down there in the gutter. A vindaloo is nothing more than a macho challenge after [...]

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The International, Bradford

March 10, 2011 Eating out

I said the other week that the standard of Asian restaurants in Bradford was on the slide. It’s not that there aren’t good places out there, it’s just that some of them don’t seem to be trying very hard anymore. I forgot that whenever I say something like that, the opposite is normally proved right, [...]

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Shimla Kebab House, Bradford

February 6, 2011 Eating out

Bradford is rightly famous for it’s Asian restaurants. There are some very, very good places, ranging from the ambitious restaurant groups like the Aagrah or the Mumtaz, right through to tiny back street cafes. Some are outstanding, cooking exceptional food, but – whisper this very quietly – some are terrible, serving little more than vaguely [...]

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Madhur Jaffrey’s Royal Chicken Korma, or Shani Murgh Korma

February 2, 2011 Food & drink

The korma. The curry for people who don’t like curry. Normally bland, tasteless and swimming in cream, the average Asian restaurant korma is as far away from the real deal as it’s possible to get. I’d hesitate to say that the humble korma is the most abused of the curry house staples – that honour [...]

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Jaldi Jaldi, the Mumtaz take on take away

November 26, 2010 Eating out

Around West Yorkshire, there are a couple of really very successful Asian restaurant empires. The Mumtaz group are one of them, with two restaurants – a huge place in Bradford and an impressive new dining room on Clarence Dock in Leeds – and a reputation for first rate food. Their bold claim to be ‘world [...]

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See-Pyan, or Burmese chicken curry

November 3, 2010 Food & drink

There are a lot of different types of curry out there, but I tend to stick to the Indian or Pakistani varieties, with maybe the odd Thai green curry every now and again. To me, the Indian sub-continent is the spiritual home of the curry, but that doesn’t mean that other regions don’t make astonishingly [...]

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Curry goat

September 22, 2010 Food & drink

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 [...]

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