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Questions Doubts and Requests => Questions? Technical Issues? The Survival Guide => Topic started by: vixen666 on November 14, 2009, 01:46:54 pm
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Hi guys,
Need your help. Made the rogan josh out of the Indian cookbook but after 1 hour in the oven could smell burning and found that the sauce had dried up. The curry still tasted great but there is no way it could have stayed in the oven for the 2 hours as stated. Has anyone else had this problem? I checked the recipe and I followed it correctly, is there a fault in the water weight as 60g obviously isn't enough. HELP!
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Sorry, don't have the book at hand - 60g sounds like too little - would pay to contact UK Thermomix and check with them.
http://www.ukthermomix.com/contactform.php (http://www.ukthermomix.com/contactform.php) - they are very helpful
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thanks. i have dropped them an email. WIll let you know the reply
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Vixen666 did you use the 280g yoghurt? I will be interested in hearing the reply from the UK.
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yes I did use the yoghurt.
Below is their reply :-
Thank you for your inquiry.
We haven't had a problem with this recipe so I am wondering if you are using a fan oven with the fan on.
If so, please select your "no fan" setting.
If this does not apply I recommend that you use an oven thermometer to check the actual temperature of your oven. Actual temperatures can vary from oven to oven.
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i guess all i can do is try again with the oven set at a lower temp :(
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I'll let you know how mine goes, as I plan to have it in the next week or two.
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Too hot to put the oven on for a couple of days. Will try.
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look forward to hearing how you girls go with it :)
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I haven't forgotten.
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I made the Rogan Josh tonight and was very careful with it and had exactly the same trouble that you did. I also felt that the spices weren't ground up enough. It was very dry and not really nice at all. I'll put in a review about it.
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Sounds like you'd better give UK thermomix an update, so that they know.
I take it from your original post that the flavour is good enough to bother finding out how to tweak it to make it successful is it, Vixen? If so I'll have a play with it myself once I'm back onto spicy foods.
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did you cover the dish? that would help (only if it wasn't already done of course!)
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Yes, my dish was covered. I think it just needs more water added. Left a horrid dry mess in the casserole dish to clean. I checked it frequently too. DH did a good job of cleaning it!
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i also had it covered and ended up with a huge mess on the bottom that took ages to clean off. I will be trying it again during the xmas holidays and will be adding more liquid. will let you know how it goes
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Hi Caroline - further to your comment below, yes I do think its worth tweaking as I can see that it has the potential to be a great dish.
Sounds like you'd better give UK thermomix an update, so that they know.
I take it from your original post that the flavour is good enough to bother finding out how to tweak it to make it successful is it, Vixen? If so I'll have a play with it myself once I'm back onto spicy foods.
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May pay for anyone game enough to try this recipe to be prepared and place aluminium foil or baking paper in the base before putting the leg in. ??? ???
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ok guys,
finally got it working - here are the tweaks :-
1. I used cardoman seeds instead of pods
2. The first step was to mill the cardomon seeds and pepper corns and then put them to one side. They then get put in the dish with the other ground spices.
3. I used ground cinnamon not a cinnamon stick
4. When putting all the ingrediants together and bringing to the boil I added another 100ml of water
This seemed to get around all my problems and made for a nice curry ;D
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Thanks for that - will make a note in my book :-* :-* :-*
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I cooked this tonight, completely as is in the Indian cookbook as I hadn't seen this thread. I cooked it very long and slow in the oven as I was using a very scraggy bit of lamp :)
Apart from the whole spices which were slightly off putting its definitely got the thumbs up ;D
I have two very faithful curry connoisseurs in the house tonight in the shape of dh and a friend and they both said it was very nice, said friend commented that I was making curry "the hard way" when I told him what I was making. DH simply didn't believe that I could put together a decent curry and is really suprised.
Thumbs up here
Nik
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I made this tonight all in the thermomix, rather than transferring to the stove or oven, although I did brown the meat In the frypan. The resulting sauce was delicious and I didn't have the problem of drying out that others describe. I would definitely mill the cardamom pods next time, however. Unfortunately, I used non descript "lean diced beef" from the supermarket and this will still tough after cooking for ages. Will definitely make again with a different cut of meat, however, as the flavor and thickness of the sauce was lovely.