curry

Lamb or mutton and potato curry

Keith Floyd’s mutton or lamb curry, with potatoes and coconut milk

Time for another barnstorming, no messing around, straight into the thick of it curry. This time, there’s coconut milk in the mix, which helps to considerably tame the enormous amount of chilli present.  It does seem like a lot of chilli, but coconut milk has the capacity to neutralise the heat very effectively…this is still [...]

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Indian tomato mutton curry

tomato mutton curry

Our eldest son, is starting to enjoy spicy food. He now demolishes platefuls of tandoori chicken wings, the spicy kind from the Asian supermarket, and has developed a remarkable tolerance for extra-hot peri-peri sauce. This is all good, and to be expected from a young Bradfordian.  We know a thing or two about spicy food, [...]

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Moghul lamb with onions and raisins

Moghul lamb or mutton with onions and raisins, by Madhur Jaffrey

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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