Well, last night (but I'm having leftovers tonight, so it counts!)...
I got a Dishoom recipe book for Christmas, and it's taken till now to actually make something from it.
I might have though that Ottolenghi was fiddly, but...
Spice Mix by
Ron Lowe, on Flickr
The recipies can best be desribed as 'recursive'.
So for this curry, we first must marinate the meat. Fine, let's make the marinade. See P94.
Right, so this in turn requires pastes and spice mixes. See Pages 230, 235, 250.
And each of these in turn requires further sub-recipies.
Where the hell is the actual starting point?
"1) Starting two weeks ago, take your fermented unobtanium-berry paste..."
Someone noted that it sounded like a Haynes Manual: First, remove the engine...
The photo above is toasting a spice mix, prior to grinding it down.
Got through it all in the end, and it was proper good.