Curry Club

Just because I feel it deserves its own post.

Yesterday was the first meeting of Curry Club.  While we are tempted to say things like "the first rule of Curry Club is that you don't talk about Curry Club" and we did spend some slightly drunken time inventing code words and secret hand gestures, oh and the tie and golden chille....

I do think its OK to talk about Curry Club.

All it is, is a potluck dinner.  Everyone brings a curry (and some wine or beer - obviously!)  The host is responsible for the rice.

Its a great excuse to get together, share food, make curry recipes that you haven't tried before, and share your favourites.  Its basically like Secret Salad Society.  But  with Curry.

We ate

Potato and Tomato curry (my dish I will share the recipe below)
Paneer Curry (home made paneer!! recipe by Manjula? She is on the interweb am going to hunt her down)
Chicken Rogan Josh (Floyd on India recipe - but made with chick thighs and not lamb)
Chick pea curry (think this is an invented house curry)


My Potato and Tomato dish
(I got this from a friends recipe book many years ago  -no idea what it was called, but its excellent!)

ingredients
Potatoes
onions
tomatoes
coriandar
onion seeds (nigella)
black mustard seeds
chilli (red ones, dried)
coriander seeds
cumin
fennel seeds
garlic
lemons


Chop potatoes into small cubes
Slice onions thinly
Fry potatoes and onions until golden
fry mustard seeds and nigella seeds until the mustard seeds pop.
chop / crush garlic and stir in to the potatoes and spices
add the rest of the spices, crushed using a pestle and mortar

chop the tomatoes and coriander and stir in
pour on lemon juice.

I cannot remember the amounts of anything, so its a little random as a recipe.  But its super tasty and fresh.