Chicken Curry and Beyond - The CurryFocus Blog

Well, the end of the year approaches quickly and here, at CurryFocus, the team has been flat out not only writing articles but also adding tasty recipes to the site and reviewing them.

Please read our latest articles below and learn that not only can curries be delicious and healthy to eat, but they may help prevent swine flu! Also Ray’s research uncovers that one of the ingredients of turmeric has shown signs of being able to kill cancer cells!

As promised, we published the article that shows you how many calories are in common curry ingredients so that you can work out how many calories (or kilocalories or kilojoules) you are eating (if you want to know).

This follows on from a series of articles that discusses the energy content of curries whether you make them yourself or eat out in a restaurant. The first article in the series is titled Curry Calorie Count. Part One.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone and don’t forget our fantastic recipe for all that leftover turkey, forget about turkey sandwiches… why not make a Thanksgiving Turkey Curry?

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Hi, Ray here again.

Another weekend ahs arrived and once again it is time to make one of those yummy curries from the range of Curry Focus curries.

I picked make the Goan Chicken Curry because it looked such a simple curry to make.

And, believe me, this is a really simple recipe that takes a surprisingly short time to follow. The cooking process was really split into three parts – preparing the coconut mixture, making the onion and coconut paste and, the last phase, actually cooking the curry. I made sure that I had plenty of time to make the curry seeing that the onion and curry mixture had to cool before it was made into a paste.

I followed the cooking method to make the coconut and onion mixture and then let it cool down until making it into a paste.

I did this cooking and preparation well before the dinner guests were scheduled to arrive so that only the last simple steps needed to be carried out when they arrived.

So as soon as the guests arrived, I started cooking the chicken thighs and handed the guests a beer to keep them busy until the food arrived.

Before too long, the final cooking phase was underway and the rice went into the microwave 15 minutes before it was needed.

The curry and rice were ready together and I served the Goan Chicken Curry to the dinner guests with a generous garnish of cilantro (I love cilantro).

This is a delicious curry and is a real treat for you if you like coconut. This is a very simple meal that is attractive to look at as well as being good to eat. The curry is a bit mild for my own tastes but the other diners raved about it (two out of the three diners prefer eating mild curries).

In summary, the Goan Chicken Curry scored 7 out of 10 for taste and received a spice/heat rating of “mild”.

This is a really easy csurry to make and will definitely be one that I make again.

Russian doctors have made the amazing claim that eating curries will prevent the onset of swine flu and the common cold.

The curry spices, such as ginger, zeera (cumin) and turmeric are credited with being the main virus fighting ingredients.

You can also eat garlic and raw onions to combat the viruses.

You can read the story here.

Hi, Ray here again.

It was time for another curry and I deliberately looked for a beef recipe to try from the range of great Curry Focus recipes. I had already bought some great beef that was on special so I wanted to turn it into a yummy curry. I saw the recipe for Beef Madras Curry and chose that one to try.

I quickly prepared the ingredients and soon got down to making the curry.

I thought that it was a bit odd to cook with a mixture of butter and oil but followed the recipe instructions to see how it would turn out.

I browned the beef and put is aside for later.

There was a lot of liquid in the frying pan after removing the beef but carried on by adding more butter and oil and then cooking the onions.

This is a very simple recipe to follow and the main 90-minute simmer was underway before too long. The curry was getting very dry and I added 1/4 cup of hot water 20 minutes from the end of the simmering.

The diners were obviously hungry because they were all impatiently waiting for their food. I served up the curry and everyone concentrated on eating for a while.

Everyone loved the curry. This is a really good dry curry with a delicious taste. The beef was very tender and “melted in your mouth”. Overall, the curry received an average score of 8.5 out of 10 with a spice/heat rating of “hot”.

So if you are keen to try a delicious, hot, curry then you should give this recipe a try.

Every so often, I am asked how many calories are in a curry? Some people really enjoy eating a good curry but think that they are full of calories that will break a diet and they will make them gain weight.

Unfortunately, the answer isn’t just a matter of looking up numbers in a book. There are lots and lots of different curries and, if you’re not following a recipe, the calories in a curry can change from meal to meal.

Some curries have lots of calories. And it is sometimes impossible to know how many calories are in a curry, particularly with curries made in restaurant (either dine in or take out).

Curries that you make yourself are have fewer calories and frozen curries that you buy from a supermarket often have fewer calories than restaurant made curries.

Recently I wrote an article, titled “Curry Calorie Count”, that describes how difficult it is to find out the calories in a curry made in a restaurant and how those delicious side dishes can rack up the calorie count.

The article describes how I calculated the number of calories, kilocalories or kilojoules there are in three of the delicious curries made from the range of Curry Focus recipes.

The main problem with counting the energy content of curries is in knowing how many kilocalories, or kilojoules, are in the ingredients, particularly the spices.

To help you, the following table shows the kilocalories and kilojoules in the most common curry ingredients.

Note that all measures (teaspoon, tablespoon and cup) are for level measures.

* there are 4.184 kilojoules in a kilocalorie.

You need to be careful about using the numbers in the table. Some numbers are guesses, based upon what I could find on the Internet. And some are approximations (for example, there are a lot of different types of chilli and they can’t all have the same calories).

The biggest problem in working out how many calories are in a curry is all the math that you need to do. I find it a very boring and time-consuming process.

Hopefully this table will let you work out the kilocalories, or kilojoules, in your favorite curry.