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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]