Shock-Horror Mother's Curry!

[Cory Ander]

Here's a Chicken Madras I had (the other night)...but with all of "Mother's" trimmings (i.e. desiccated coconut, apple, sultanas, banana, cucumber & raw onion) with pilau rice :

Mother's Curry

Strange, but highly nutritious, and nice for a change!

[British Indian]

Looks incredibly tasty CA.

My local takeaway does a “Kashmiri rice”and first time I tried it, I wasn’t sure. ( I’m sure you are aware a lot of Indians here call their Peshawari naan “Kashmiri naan”)

So, the Kashmiri rice is full of dried fruit, nuts and desiccated coconut. I am addicted to the stuff now. It goes so well with their Vindaloo, glacé cherries and all.

[ScotchBonnet]

We only get a glacé cherry on our biryani where I am. We get onion, cucumber and a pineapple ring too, mind you.

One of my favourite school meals was some unidentified ground meat in a green sauce and with lots of raisins. The white bits on top might have been coconut.

[Greybeard]

I remember in the '70s the Birds Eye frozen curries had fruit in them, I can't remember if it was sultana or raisins, but the sweetness of the fruit balanced the very rough curry powder extremely well, and really made the dish.

I think the Vesta "powdered curry in a box" had some sort of fruit ingredient as well. While not a shadow of a decent home cooked BIR curry nowadays, they were still extremely moreish, despite the soy meat.

[cartz64]

Glace cherries....oh dear

[rdu]

Jummy

[ebowlotus1960]

I think I would prefer that to the fried egg that one of my nearby places puts on top, it doesn't really do it for me at all.

[ebowlotus1960]

I meant to say on top of their Biryani...

[JalfreziT]

Looks tasty!

Mother did the trimmings, but who made the Madras? If it was Mother too, you're a lucky boy!

[Westy]

The more I look at it , the more I like the idea of it - I may try something similar with my Phal tomorrow

[Cory Ander]

@ JalfreziT,

What I meant was that this is how my mother may have made it (i.e. with all the trimmings). Given that she's in England, and I'm currently in Oz, it would be a mean feat for her to have made all of those trimmings (and/or the Madras)! :lol:

[JalfreziT]

Ah, thanks for the clarification.

Still looks jolly tasty.

[One Keema Naan]

You can still get Vesta curries in one of the cheapie stores (might be B&M). My Mrs. Buys me them occasionally as a "treat" entirely different thing from eating either BIR or traditional Indian, more a 'comfort food' thing for me.

[thebeermonkey]

My first curry was a bite of my Dad’s Vesta curry in the 1970’s. I don’t remember much about it other than being laced with sultanas and raisins. That and being rather watery.

[Bandit]

Ah, Vesta, the memories, used to love them scooters, you can still buy them today but they can be quite expensive.

Don't know how much the curries are

[thebeermonkey]

That was the scooters that were shaped like a long necked Bird with Royal protection, wasn’t it?

Swan Vespas?

My brother and his girlfriend had matching ones.

They used to go out for a curry on them.

Their favourite was a Lambretta Madras.

[James]

HI

Looks good.