Supermarket Ready Made Indian meals

[looobylooo]

Hi all,

I really love indian food and you cant beat the real thing from the restaurant can you,

but,

for a quick fix, does anyone recommend any of the Indian ready made meals you can get at the supermarket?

I fancy either a nice spicey chicken dish or a vegetable dish, so if anyone knows of any nice tasty ones i could try please let me know!

Thanks :o)

[looobylooo]

yes, i agree with you both about mcdonalds and kfc. ive only had them a couple of times, i wouldnt make a habit of eating their stuff.

[snow.maiden]

I've brought my children up to avoid such places. Then they went to a birthday party at McDonalds a couple of years ago. The poor souls never ate a thing, apart from a jelly or something, afterwards!!! Awww.....made me feel quite mean, but their food...frankly, it's cr@p!

[ethandron]

try asda's own indian meals in the brown bags. they're by far the nicest ready made ones, and you can choose mild, hot, medium, to suit your taste.
we go away self catering a lot, and have tried all the ready made ones from all major supermarkets. asda's indian food generally came out top a couple of years ago in the sunday times.

[whiffey]

Asda stock a range of ready currys by Ye Old Oake, in pouches. I have tried the Chicken Vindaloo one, it is excellent.

Alternatively as has already been suggested, buy in bulk from your local restaurant/takeaway and freeze them down, the very act of freezing enhances the flavour.

Best of all though, cook your own, it needn't be a fiddly hassle. Fry onion and chopped garlic (from a jar) in butter ghee, add a large jar of Patak's sauce - the vindaloo one is brilliant - heat through, then add 500g of frozen king prawns at the end. This is the closest I have got to the restaurant taste.

[looobylooo]

thanks whiffey and ethandron,
i will have a look in asda then at their range and give them a whirl too.
itd be nice to get something that tastes half decent from the shops.

:o)

[Cockney_si]

I do like the Tesco range they are quite reasonably priced and taste good.

Sometimes I chop fresh green chillies into the meat mix in the last minute of cooking when I want to spice things up !

[looobylooo]

hi cockney_si,
tescos are the ones ive tried and wasnt too impressed with.
but maybe i havent had the ones youre on about though.
hey, good idea about adding extra chillies to spice it up!

:o)

[Cockney_si]

They recently changed the ranges....

On one of the packets it said chili content 0.2% so I wasn't getting none of it.

Having said that I recently had an indian takeaway from somewhere different and the hotness made me hiccup !

[looobylooo]

did it bring you out in a bit of a sweat cockney?! lol

:o)

[Cockney_si]

Thought I could handle my chili until then lol !

[Jugglering]

I've found the ASDA range of take away curries to be very good (and I love curried food!). I also make my own and my mates find them rather good (ahh, that explains why I have lots of visitors around dinner time... lol).

If you've sussed out the personal messaging stuff over on *Sport* just add me as a friend and I'll get you some easy veggie recipes (like tarka dal, mushroom & potato curry, parathas, chick pea curry etc).

[looobylooo]

jugglering thats great, thanks ever so much!!!

i will nip over to sport now and add you.

:o))

[weggiewabbit]

I couldn�t really recommend any at the moment. I haven�t tried M & S�s, but I don�t like Tesco�s at all ... they used to do a nice one, but discontinued it.

Sainsbury�s used to do a really good Lamb Rogan Josh quite a few years ago ... they still sell one, but it�s not as good (it is cheaper though now, and still edible) � their pilau rice is the best supermarket one I�ve tried, however.

[tiggerblue10]

I prefer to make my own curries from scratch, however if you want to use jar sauces I would recommend the Loyd Grossman range. Bit pricey but they are halfway decent.

[annie0000]

Sainsburys Butter chicken is nice - I used to really like a dish they had called chicken lababdar, but they don't seem to do it anymore - or at least they don't do it in the Sainsbury's here, I always got it in my old one, but it is too far to go back. I also like their "taste the difference" lamb something with apricots.

[annie0000]

Hi tigger - I agree especially the Dopiaza - that is really nice - I use the pasta sauces all the time - I use them for casseroles, pizzas etc. The tomato and chilli is really nice with some jumbo prawns and served with rice. I keep a stock of them for emergencies. If people pop round unexpectedly, I take some chicken or prawns out the freezer and add a lloyds sauce with any veggies I have or use some frozen onions and peppers - a wee bit of stock and bob's your uncle. You can have baked apples, bananas or pineapple - just cover with a bit of honey or raisins and brown sugar and serve with ice-cream for afters. Our friends are amazed that we can always seem to rustle a meal up for them at the last minute. When we go to their house, even if we are invited for dinner, we always end up with a takeaway as they never have any food in.

[msemma]

ASDA have just started doing a basic dahl in a tin in the veg section. I'm not a big fan of indian food but it is a really nice, not too hot dahl and only about 60p a tin which serves two with a bit of pilau rice.

[chinois]

Sainsbury's frozen ones are good for the price. Korma & madras are good. I think they're �1.60 each.
I remember m&s being good but havent had them for ages