Rogan Josh Curry Paste Recipes

Steps:

• To make the curry paste first peel the garlic and ginger.
• Heat frying pan on a medium to high heat and add the spices for toasting to the dry pan and lightly toast them for a few minutes, until they are golden brown and fragrant.
• Then remove the pan from the heat and add the toasted spices to a pestle and mortar and grind until fine (or place them in a good processor or coffee grinder).
• Once you have ground the toasted spices add them to a good processor and blend with the rest of the ingredients until you have a smooth paste.
• The recipe finished here so it is assumed you would be using that day, it may keep in a sealed sterile jar for a few days but I do not know for sure.

Steps:

• Combine the yoghurt and curry paste in a large glass or ceramic bowl (I ended up using stainless steel as it was the only bowl that was big enough) and then add the chicken to coat and cover with plastic wrap and place into the fridge for 30 minutes to marines (mine was in for nearly 1 1/2 hours).
• Heat oil in the pressure cooker (though I did it in a separate frypan as I was making ahead but use the pressure cooker if you are going to be cooking the chicken straight away) and add onion and cook until golden, this took me about 10 minutes but I had wedges of onion, if thinly sliced would take about 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add the cooked onion and diced tomatoes (see intro) to your marinated chicken mix and place in the pressure cooker, (at this point I used an electric pressure cooker), I sealed in the pressure cooker and set the timer for high pressure for 15 minutes, it took 18 minutes to come up to pressure and then cooked for 15 minutes and then did fast release and then served over rice and with steamed vegetables and naan bread on the side (original recipe recommended pappadums).

Steps:

• Put the onions in a food processor and whizz until very finely chopped. Heat the oil in a large heavy-based pan, then fry the onion with the lid on, stirring every now and then, until it is really golden and soft. Add the garlic and ginger, then fry for 5 mins more.
• Tip the curry paste, all the spices and the bay leaves into the pan, with the tomato purée. Stir well over the heat for about 30 secs, then add the meat and 300ml water. Stir to mix, turn down the heat, then add the yogurt.
• Cover the pan, then gently simmer for 40-60 mins until the meat is tender and the sauce nice and thick. Serve scattered with coriander, with plain basmati or pilau rice.