Sunday, December 22, 2013

Aloo Gobi as Bend It Like Beckham

Looking for a great Aloo Gobi recipe and Gurinder Chadha has nailed it !!

Easy to follow and makes a great vegi curry dish ..

There's a Scouse in the kitchen curry sauce

This recipe make about 7 pints of curry sauce that you can use as the base for lots of curries.
Freeze in half pint containers and use when you need them.

You need  a dozen cloves of garlic
8 oz of ghee, butter works too or vegetable oil
3' piece of fresh ginger
5 onions chopped roughly
bunch of cilantro
8 oz can of carrots
2lb of canned tomatoes
14oz can of tomato soup
1 jar of patak's curry paste

You need a blender too !

Put the garlic in the blender with some water, whizz to a fine puree

get the biggest pot you can find and heat the ghee stir fry the garlic for a few minutes
(don't burn it there is no worse taste, except perhaps anchovies)

place the ginger in the blender with some water, puree and add to the garlic

puree the onions and cilantro, pitch it in to the pan, should be smelling good by now

cover it and let it cook gently  for about half an hour, stir it occasionally

puree carrots , tomatoes and juices, add them to the mixture

pitch the soup in too

add the jar of curry paste , some salt, water if necessary.

Simmer for half an hour, let it cool and divide up into half pint containers.

freeze, it will be good for about 1 million years.