Review of the Poppadom Recipe
Hi, Ray here again.
I’d recently been looking through some of my curry recipe books and was struck by the lack of recipes for Poppadoms. Some books even said just to buy some from a shop and then just cook them. I have a vague memory of somebody saying that poppadoms were difficult to make.
So I had found a challenge. I did good at making naan bread so poppadoms should be easy enough.
There’s an easy looking Poppadom recipe on the Curry Focus website.
I got the ingredients together and started by making the dough.
It was much too dry. Way, way too dry.
So I added more water, a little at a time, until I got what I thought was the correct consistency.
But it was obviously wrong. The dough was very sticky.
So I added more flour to dry it up a bit. Eventually I thought that I had it right.
I rolled the dough out into a log and sliced it into equal sections and put a dab of oil on the top of the slices.
Then the fun began. The dough kept sticking to my rolling pin. I put flour on the work surface and the rolling pin but the poppadoms kept attaching to the rolling pin and splitting.
I was ending up with strips of poppadoms.
I rolled up all of the dough together a couple of times and tried again but no luck.
I don’t know whether I messed up the recipe or that the recipe doesn’t work. I am fully prepared to accept that the problem was me. I don’t have a real rolling pin and use an empty wine bottle but can’t see that the blame can be put on the rolling pin. Maybe I wasn’t careful enough. Or maybe I’m not adaptable enough in the kitchen – I assume that real cooks automatically compensate for dough inconsistencies.
It wasn’t a big problem because I had bought some ready-made poppadoms earlier.
I’ll try the recipe one more time and I’ll buy a proper rolling pin to see if that makes a difference.
And if the recipe doesn’t work, I’ll hunt down another one.
I won’t be beaten. I need to find a basic recipe that works so that I can create my own flavors.
