Chicken Curry and Beyond - The CurryFocus Blog

2008 has started with a bang for those of us at Curry Focus, with it being our busiest month to date. We would like to share some of the articles that have been added in the last few weeks..

Naan Bread With An Indian Curry

Naan (or Nan) is a flatbread that can be eaten with most curries. It is a leavened bread, which means that it rises using yeast.

The Moguls brought naan bread to India hundreds of years ago (the Moguls came from Persia, now called Iran, and naan is the Persian word for bread).

Naan is almost a compulsory component of an Indian meal. Naan is usually eaten with the main curry dish and can be used to scoop up the curry (instead of using knives and forks)
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What Is Dill?

Dill is an herb that grows to about 2 ft in height.

The feather-like leaves grow to a length of about 6 in.

Both the seeds and leaves are used in cooking.

The fresh dill leaves are sometimes called dill weed.

In Indian cuisine, dill is often used to make masalas, curry powders and to flavor spinach and other leafy green vegetables. The dill seeds have a flavor that is similar to that of caraway seeds
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Review of the Mango Lassi Recipe

Hi, it’s Ray here again.

If you haven’t tried mango lassi then you’re really missing out on a taste sensation. Mango lassi is a refreshing drink and the Curry Focus website has a very easy mango lassi recipe for you to try.

My local Indian store sold large cans of mango pulp. The cans were pretty large which was good because then I can make several batches to drink….. Read More

What Is Nigella?

Nigella is a spice that is mainly used when cooking Indian flat breads, such as naan, and vegetarian dishes.

The spice has a strong taste that is similar to oregano.

The Nigella spice is the seeds of the plant called Nigella Sativa. The seeds are tiny and black in colour. The seeds themselves don’t have much of an aroma but the oregano aroma is released when the seeds are fried or crushed. The taste is a bit like cracked pepper and is bitter…. Read More

Top 5 Recipes for January

1 Chicken Curry
2 Easy Chicken Curry
3 Balti Chicken
4 Chickpea and Spinach Curry
5 Chicken Curry (Kodi Kura)

Why not tell us the recipes that you like? You can submit a new recipe here and a restaurant here.

This is the December 2007 edition of the Curry Focus newsletter.

Well, hasn’t the year been a great one? Happy New Year to all our Newsletter subscribers. More articles and recipes have been added in December and we hope you enjoy them ….

The Health Benefits of Fenugreek
Fenugreek is a spice that is widely used in curries, being an essential spice in five-spice powder and in curry powders. But as well as adding flavour to curries, fenugreek also has medicinal applications….Read more.

What Is A Balti Curry?
The Balti curry was invented in Birmingham (in the West Midlands region of England) in the 1970s, by Pakistani and Kashmiri immigrants. Balti cafes opened in Birmingham, during this time, serving cheap food and they became very popular.…. Read more.

How To Make Your Own Curry Powder
Curry powder is a mixture of spices that have been ground into a powder. When cooking, you use curry powder instead of the individual spices.There’s an article describing curry powder here in the Curry Focus blog section and there is also a recipe for making curry powder here.…. Read more.

Blog Articles

We had a couple of comments to say that now there are so many website blogs, it is time-consuming to search through them. So we have grouped the blogs into subject areas to make it easier for you to navigate around the articles. You’ll sometimes see that some articles appear in the index more than once because they cover more than one subject. You can check out the new blog index by clicking on the Blogs menu link.

If you would like to see any new features in the website, or have suggestions as to how the existing pages can be improved, then just let us know - we promise that we’ll listen to your ideas.

Recipes

The recipes that were viewed most by our visitors in December were:-

1 Chicken Curry
2 Easy Chicken Curry
3 Chicken Curry (Kodi Kura)
4 Chicken Jalfrezi
5 Balti Chicken

Why not tell us the recipes that you like? You can submit a recipe at http://www.curryfocus.com/newrecipe.php and a restaurant at http://www.curryfocus.com/add_restaurant.php.

Regards,

The Curry Focus Team