Mary Berry served up a fragrant Persian style lamb rogan josh curry with Greek yoghurt and light muscovado sugar on Love To Cook.
The ingredients for the curry paste are: 10 green cardamom pods, ¼ tsp ground cloves, 1 tbsp ground coriander, 1 tbsp ground cumin, 1 tbsp paprika, 2 tsp ground turmeric, 1 tbsp garam marsala, 4 tbsp tomato puree and 1 tbsp sunflower oil.
For the curry: 1 tbsp sunflower oil, 1kg boneless leg of lamb, cut into 2cm (¾in) cubes, 2 large onions, sliced, 3 garlic cloves, crushed, 1 red chilli, deseeded and diced, 450ml lamb or beef stock, 2 cinnamon sticks, 3 bay leaves, 1 tbsp light muscovado sugar, 150g full-fat Greek yoghurt and Small bunch of coriander, chopped.
See recipes by Mary in her book titled: Love to Cook: 120 joyful recipes from my new BBC series available from Amazon now.
When specifying paprika in a receipt why can’t the author specify whether they mean the sweet or hot variety. I used sweet in this case but found the curry bland and wondered if I should have used hot paprika.