indian cook book - Rogan Josh

[vixen666]

Hi guys,

Need your help. Made the rogan josh out of the Indian cookbook but after 1 hour in the oven could smell burning and found that the sauce had dried up. The curry still tasted great but there is no way it could have stayed in the oven for the 2 hours as stated. Has anyone else had this problem? I checked the recipe and I followed it correctly, is there a fault in the water weight as 60g obviously isn't enough. HELP!

[Thermomixer]

Sorry, don't have the book at hand - 60g sounds like too little - would pay to contact UK Thermomix and check with them.

http://www.ukthermomix.com/contactform.php - they are very helpful

[vixen666]

thanks. i have dropped them an email. WIll let you know the reply

[cookie1]

Vixen666 did you use the 280g yoghurt? I will be interested in hearing the reply from the UK.

[vixen666]

yes I did use the yoghurt.
Below is their reply :-

Thank you for your inquiry.

We haven't had a problem with this recipe so I am wondering if you are using a fan oven with the fan on.
If so, please select your "no fan" setting.

If this does not apply I recommend that you use an oven thermometer to check the actual temperature of your oven. Actual temperatures can vary from oven to oven.

[vixen666]

i guess all i can do is try again with the oven set at a lower temp

[cookie1]

I'll let you know how mine goes, as I plan to have it in the next week or two.

[Thermomixer]

Too hot to put the oven on for a couple of days.  Will try.

[vixen666]

look forward to hearing how you girls go with it

[cookie1]

I haven't forgotten.

[cookie1]

I made the Rogan Josh tonight and was very careful with it and had exactly the same trouble that you did. I also felt that the spices weren't ground up enough. It was very dry and not really nice at all. I'll put in a review about it.

[CarolineW]

Sounds like you'd better give UK thermomix an update, so that they know. 

I take it from your original post that the flavour is good enough to bother finding out how to tweak it to make it successful is it, Vixen?  If so I'll have a play with it myself once I'm back onto spicy foods. 

[brazen20au]

did you cover the dish? that would help (only if it wasn't already done of course!)

[cookie1]

Yes, my dish was covered. I think it just needs more water added. Left a horrid dry mess in the casserole dish to clean. I checked it frequently too. DH did a good job of cleaning it!

[vixen666]

i also had it covered and ended up with a huge mess on the bottom that took ages to clean off. I will be trying it again during the xmas holidays and will be adding more liquid. will let you know how it goes