Hi, Ray here again.
Time for a weekend curry again and I checked out the great Curry Focus recipes to see what I would make this week.
I saw the Dry-Roasted Lamb (Sukka Lamb) recipe and it looked like it would taste pretty good. I’m not sure why it is described as being “roasted” because the curry goes nowhere near an oven.
The longest stage of this recipe was grinding the spices because I still don’t have a grinder. I’ve got a mortar and pestle and it takes a long time to grind spices. I find the hardest part of using a mortar and pestle is grinding cinnamon stick – it simply doesn’t to the job very well. A spice grinder is now on my shopping list.
OK, back to the recipe.
This is an easy lamb curry recipe – once you’ve got the lamb cut up and cooking for the first 60-minute period, it’s simple to prepare the onion and the other ingredients (I ground the spices before starting the cooking because I knew that the grinding the spices would take a fair while – it took me about 30 minutes).
Once I had drained and set aside the lamb, I fried the onions (there are 2 onions in this recipe which is quite a lot of onions but this isn’t a problem for me because I love onions).
After cooking the onions, I fried the lamb, added the spices and then added the previously cooked onions so that everything was now cooking together. This is a very dry curry and you have to keep stirring the ingredients to make sure that the curry does not stick to the frying pan.
I timed the basmati rice to be ready when the curry was ready and I served the Sukka Lamb Curry on the basmati.
And what was the curry like? As I said before, there are a lot of onions and this is a very dry curry (you might need an extra beer or water to drink with the curry to help it down). The lamb was very tender and you could clearly taste the lime juice and coconut. This is a lovely curry and it got an average rating of 7 out of 10 with a spice/heat rating of “mild to medium”.
If you like a dry curry then you really should make this recipe. I’m sure that you won’t be disappointed.