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Driving into Thakur Man Singh’s huge ancestral property just outside Jaipur in Rajasthan, I had the feeling I’d been there before. The Stein business now employs over 650 and extends beyond Cornwall with restaurants in Winchester, Sandbanks, Marlborough and Barnes in London. Supermarket free-range chickens have a great deal more fat than Indian chickens, and they don’t come close to reproducing the flavour and texture of Indian chicken dishes.
Recipe for Chettinad chicken from Rick Stein’s India Recipe for Chettinad chicken from Rick Stein’s India
He has cooked for The Queen and Prince Philip, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, French President, Jacques Chirac and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Thakur is royalty, he is a Rajput; I asked his wife Sandhyo what it was like being married to a Rajput and she said, ‘I too am a Rajput, we don’t marry out of our caste.Taste a small piece before adding to the dish; if it’s very hot then remove the seeds or use a little less; if it’s too mild then add more. Extracted from the book, these 5 essential tips form the building blocks of accomplished curries, helping you to cook them from scratch with ease.
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Afterwards, in conversation with him, I realized that they’d used his house as the ex-British Raj Club in the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, where the character played by Celia Imrie went hunting for rich men. For perfect results, toast the spices individually, such as for garam masala, but life is short and I find that if I attend to them carefully I can get away with doing them all together. In Rick Stein’s India, our favourite itinerant cookbook author journeys across India meeting the chefs, home cooks and street food vendors who hold the secrets to accomplished Indian cookery. But for most of the recipes in this book I found that the standard brown onions work perfectly well. Whenever I hear the word curry, I’m filled with a longing for spicy hot food with the fragrance of cumin, cloves and cinnamon.
A mini food processor makes light work of turning garlic and ginger, with a splash of water, into pastes, which are used throughout the book. For the second marinade, put all the ingredients apart from the chat masala into a mini food processor. Rick divides his time between his businesses and homes with his wife, Sarah between Padstow, London and Australia. I see deep red colours from lots of Kashmiri chillis, tinged with a suggestion of yellow from turmeric.
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