Hi, Ray here again.
I had 2 vegetarian friends were coming to dinner this weekend and so I checked out the vegetarian recipes on the Curry Focus website. The Vegetable Pulao recipe looked very easy to make.
The vegetable pulao did not have any unusual ingredients and I already had all of the ingredients needed in the recipe.
It was a quick curry to make, only needing around 25 minutes of cooking, and I prepared the ingredients just before my friends arrived.
I cooked the curry and it was really easy. The one thing that I find a bit difficult about rice dishes that absorb the water is not having a quick look under the lid to see how things are progressing. As it happens, the rice was not properly cooked when the 10 minutes of cooking time had one by and so I quickly added another 1/2 cup of boiling water and cooked the dish for another 5 minutes.
Even despite the extra 5 minutes needed, the vegetable pulao was ready in very quick time and I served up the meal to the eager diners.
This is a very mild curry. In fact, it is so mild it’s almost impossible to taste the spices and it was just like eating rice and vegetables.
This is not my definition of a curry. I know that curries don’t have to “blow your head off” but there should be some spice tastes to enjoy.
Nobody really enjoyed the meal, which was disappointing, and it received a derisory score of 3.5 out of 10 (a sympathy vote) with q spice/heat rating of very mild.
This is not the only time that I’ve been very disappointed with a so-called curry. So I’ve made a rule – I will not try a curry recipe unless it contains the 3 basic ingredients of onions, ginger and garlic and it must contain at least 3 spices, such as chilli, cumin, cilantro, cinnamon, cardamom, etc.