Indian Style Food

Here's our favourite Indian style food These recipes are not intended to be authentic but are more influenced by UK Indian restaurant food.

Now get your pappodams (or poppodams), sit cross legged and fill your face.

Chicken Curry
Ingredients:
chicken pieces, 1 onion, tin of tomatoes, chopped coriander, 1 chilli, peanut oil or ghee, 1 cup of chicken stock, 4 cloves garlic, sliced ginger, tsp cumin, tsp tumeric, tsp garam masala, salt
Directions:
Boil a cup of water, chop 1 onion roughly and boil until soft. Drain. Liquidise the boiled onion and tomatoes. Fry Onion puree gently in ghee. Separately fry chicken pieces in ghee, add spices and chili (but not garam masala) and fry for a couple of minutes. Add Onion / tomato puree, chicken stock and mix well. Simmer until reduced to a slightly thick consistency. Add garam masala and salt to taste. Sprinkle chopped coriander and place in a serving dish.

Prawn Biriani
Ingredients:
1/2 lb cooked prawns, 1 onion finely sliced, 3 chopped cloves of garlic, sprig of coriander, 1/2 cup chicken stock, 1 cup of pureed tomato, 1 chili finely chopped, boiled rice made from 1 cup raw rice, 1 tablespoon peanut oil, garam masala, turmeric, cumin, pinch of salt.
Directions:
Heat oil in a wok and fry cumin and turmeric gently for about 1 minute. Add garlic and onions and fry until slightly browned then add chili, stock and tomato and simmer for 10 minutes (I sometimes use coconut milk here as well). Add rice and prawns and mix well until rice has absorbed some of the liquid. Add salt to taste then add Garam Masala and chopped coriander and serve. (Note that this is a good way of using turkey left-overs - substitute for the prawns)