Recipes

Recipes

Here you’ll find just a few specially selected BIR curry recipes from my books, Indian Restaurant Curry at Home Volumes 1 & 2, and Curry Compendium, and new recipes not already included in them.

The books have a huge amount of useful information not on this website, and loads of delicious and unique recipes between them, most of which can be made with different combinations of  ingredients for extra variety. Take a look on the Books page for more details.

Books by Richard Sayce

Indian Restaurant Curry at Home Volume 1 Front Cover  Indian Restaurant Curry at Home Volume 2 Front Cover  Curry Compendium Front Cover

Here’s a little more history about how I was inspired to recreate BIR curry recipes

My love for Indian food goes right back to my childhood. Growing up in Britain in the seventies, my experience of food was mostly the staple British classics, such as roast meat and two veg, cauliflower cheese, beans on toast, ham salad, cheese on toast, chicken pie and of course potatoes… many potatoes! As a special treat, a spaghetti bolognese or lasagne would be conjured up.



My very first memories of Indian food come from when I was around six years-old. Lying in bed, I could smell an amazing aroma of curry drifting upstairs. My parents would be enjoying a rare Indian takeaway. Salivating, I would sneak downstairs, complaining that I couldn’t sleep, and showing great interest in the foil containers laid out on the table, which had the most amazing magical colours and smells.

I was lucky enough to be given a small piece of poppadom dipped in an odd reddish, oily sauce and just one taste was enough to fuel a lifelong craving for curry.

For more information about Richard Sayce  see the About page.

PREPARATION

BASE GRAVY

QUICK BASE GRAVY

MIX POWDER

PRE-COOKED CHICKEN

CHICKEN TIKKA

PRE-COOKED MEAT

KEEMA

TOMATO PASTE

DHAL

SIMPLE DHAL

Classic Curries

TIKKA MASALA

ROGAN JOSH

BHUNA

VINDALOO

CEYLON

KORMA

PATHIA

DHANSAK

MADRAS

JALFREZI

DOPIAZA

SAMBER

GARLIC CHILLI

KARAHI

BALTI

PASANDA

CHICKEN SAAG

BUTTER CHICKEN

PHAAL

SPECIAL CURRIES

CHILLI MASALA

LAVASTORM

REZALA

ACHARI

SHORSHE MASALA

MANGO CHICKEN

MR NAGA

ADRAK

KALIMIRCH

MUSTARD MANGO MURGH

NIMBO

SHABABS BALTI CHICKEN

MOGHUL

METHI CHICKEN

SOUTH INDIAN TAMARIND

ZAFRANI

LAAL CHICKEN

FENNEL CHICKEN

RESOURCES

ALL RECIPES

INTRO TO BIR

MAIN INGREDIENT

SPICE GLOSSARY

MY BOOKS

MY SPICE BLENDS

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