Once upon a time the most popular British meal was a Sunday Roast, but that has now been overtaken by an altogether spicier affair, with the curry being Britain’s best loved dinner. We love a good Ruby Murray and there are literally thousands of excellent takeaways and restaurants all over the UK. Of course, you can get to grips with making your own curry at home, which is why we’ve put together some of our favourite curry websites, whether it’s for eating out or making at home.
According to one website, Glasgow is the curry capital of the Britain – a claim backed up by the fact that a Glasgow establishment has either been winner or runner up every year in the competition to find the best Indian food since 2002.
Glasgow is a hugely multicultural city and there are good curry houses on every corner, making for difficult mouth-watering choices to be made when it comes to choosing where to eat. After being nominated by diners, the selected restaurants from each town are judged by a panel of 13 experts who decide which group deserve to win the curry capital crown.
Eating out all the time is going to be expensive, so we can highly recommend cookery lessons and a range of cookery courses that’ll help your cookery skills improve massively and turn you into a competent home chef. All sorts of themes are covered and not just curries, so you can turn your hand to almost any style of cookery.
If it’s a curry cooking experience you’re really after, we can highly recommend this one. We bought the curry cooking workshop day in Haslemere, Surrey for our brother for his birthday and after he went on the course he’s been cooking mean curries ever since! Pat Chapman, the legend who founded the Curry Club, leads the day and it’s great fun.
Pat has written over 30 curry recipe books, so certainly knows a thing or two when it comes to Indian cooking. What’s really great is that he shows you how to pick and mix the spices to great effect, so there’s no need to reach for the ready mixed curry pieces or even the jar of curry sauce once you’ve been to one of Pat Chapman’s curry cooking classes!
Did you know even Richard Branson loves a good curry? Well, his Virgin business certainly does as they too are offering Virgin curries with curry lessons with the Curry King himself. You’ll learn lots on this one-day course, with a bit of history mixed in with some nice hints and tips on mixing spices and some urban myths and legends being dispelled about spiciness and hotness of dishes.
