Home-Style Lamb Curry by Dapur Sinolin

Ingredients

• thumb-sized piece ginger, ½ cut into matchsticks, the rest left whole
• 2 onions, quartered
• 4 garlic cloves
• 2 tbsp rapeseed oil
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 tbsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp ground turmeric
• ½ tsp fennel seeds
• 750g leg of lamb, diced
• 400g can chopped tomatoes
• 1 red chilli or green chilli, deseeded and sliced
• small bunch coriander, stalks finely chopped, leaves roughly chopped
• basmati rice and mango chutney or raita, to serve

Method

1. Put ½ the thumb-sized piece of ginger, 2 quartered onions and 4 garlic cloves in a food processor with 300ml water. Blitz to a smooth purée.
2. Scrape down the sides with a spoon and blitz again to make it as smooth as you can. Tip into a deep sauté pan, cover with a lid and simmer for 15 mins.
3. Remove the lid and cook for 5 mins more, stirring occasionally. By now the liquid should be all gone. If not, cook a little longer.
4. Add 2 tbsp rapeseed oil to the pan with the remaining piece of ginger, cut into matchsticks. Turn up the heat and fry, stirring, for 3-5 mins until it starts to colour.
5. Stir in 1 cinnamon stick, 1 tbsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp ground turmeric and ½ tsp fennel seeds, then add 750g leg of lamb. Stir-fry until the lamb changes colour.
6. Tip in 400g can chopped tomatoes with a can of water and 1 deseeded and sliced red or green chilli, season well, cover and leave to simmer for 1 hr.
7. Stir in the finely chopped stalks from a small bunch coriander, re-cover and cook for a final 30 mins until the lamb is tender. Add a splash of water if necessary to loosen the consistency as it cooks.
8. Stir in the roughly chopped coriander leaves and serve with basmati rice and mango chutney or raita.