From the blog, I guess you realise I rather like spicy foods – especially Chinese or Indian curry. However, I don’t like the bottled sauces as they all seem to be too sweet, not spicy enough, not hot enough – in essence, anything one of the three bears complained about with regards to porridge.
However, as with the rest of humanity, as I arrive home from a busy day, the last thing I want to be doing is opening lots of packets/pots of spice or walking around my local Turkish store muttering about garam masala. This is generally frowned on and frightens the other customers.
So in my effort to find a halfway house, I found Werners Original at my local Savanna. This supplier of South African food is located in Liverpool Street and the staff are lovely. They provide brilliant meat such as boerewors as well as staples.
Werners Original Durban Curry comes in 4 varieties (mild through to really quite hot) and consists of a recipe as well as a packet of powdered spices and a packet of non-powdered spices. The powdered spices are the normal malalas, tumeric etc. and the non-powdered include bay leaves, cloves and cardamom.
You dust the meat in the powdered spices and then use the rest as you cook it down with tomatoes, potatoes and onions. They suggest serving with rice or chutney.
Tasted utterly brilliant – far better than the bottled stuff without the faff of DIY – would thoroughly recommend it.
L xx
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