fusion cooking at it's peak?!

Hi all!

Ok, hands up who likes pie?

Hands up who likes curry?

Hmm... that's a fair few of us who like pie AND curry.

fancy a spot of that fancy fusion cuisine?

Ladies and jellyspoons, may I present...

The CURRY PIE!!

OH. MY. curry pie.

This was something Dominic dreamed up a while ago. We both love pie and peas (as in mushy) but being fans of spicy food and with a serious addiction to tarka dahl, what could be better than a curry pie with a dollop of dahl?

If you wanted to make these it's really easy. Cook up a batch of your favourite curry - ours is a Madhur beef one with lots of roasted and ground coriander seeds and coconut milk - and the only tweaking involved adding some slaked cornflour near the end to thicken it up to a pie filling consistency.

Buy some ready made, chilled shortcrust pastry (make it easy on yourself!)and some foil pie tins.

make pies!

Here they are sans lid.

what we do once the lids are cut out is we sprinkle mustard seeds and cumin seeds on top and gently press in with the rolling pin. Looking at my hand here I can totally sympathise with Lucy in her latest post!

Anyway, I digress...

So, the lids once on, look like this.

Don't forget to cut little slits for the steam!

We then freeze these - along with batches of dahl - again, a Madhur recipe, so that on cold winter days we can take out of the freezer in the morning, with nothing more to do but to shove in the oven when we get in after work. How satisfying.

There is something quite bizarre and utterly gorgeous about the short, crisp, buttery pastry and the rich, spicy filling that is just...mmmm...and with dahl on the side as a carb and to add extra comfort, what could be better on a horizontal raining day? I reckon these would go down a treat on bonfire night too :-)

I am trying to restock the freezer with batch cooked goodies at the moment and would love to hear what others cook up for their freezers.

If anyone would like the recipes for the curry and the dhal I am but an email click away :-)

Comments

[Fiona]

Oh I would absolutely love the recipe! Despite not long since having had dinner, my mouth is watering at the sight of those pies. I love cooking for the freezer although ours really isn't big enough for huge batches, especially since we by meath monthly from Riverford that takes up quite a bit of space. But I have been filling the spaces recently with home-made veg soup and lots of stewed apple, as I was given a huge bag of apples that needed to be dealt with. Love the satisfaction of a full freezer.

[Lucy @ Attic24]

oh, these looks absolutely right up my foodie street...delish!
had to laugh at your hands Sarah, lol, not just me then, Ali was right, EVERYones hands look wrinkled in macro mode!

:o)xx

[Anne Bebbington]

I batch cook for my freezer a huge amount - it started when I was pregnant with my first (17 years ago) and I cooked double of everything to freeze half for easy meals once the baby had arrived. I have a great big catering size stew pan and cook up great big panfuls of chilli, bolognaise, cottage pie base etc in family meal size servings x 6 or 8. I also have a giant casserole which I use to make multiple sets of casseroles or curries in the oven and then freeze those in five people sized servings. I work term time only and so cook up all these delights in the school holidays and it means that I only have to cook spuds, pasta, rice and or veg fresh to go with them each evening. Saves me loads of time and stress at the end of busy days

[Jodie Ramer]

where do you get the tins:

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