Lamb do piazza – the curry house way.
My Latest and Favourite Dopiaza Recipe is in my New Hardbound Cookbook!
I love dopiaza curries. Some are spicy while others are quite mild. With this recipe you can alter the spice level to whatever you prefer.
This lamb dopiaza recipe uses many of the same ingredients as my chicken dopiaza curry but it tastes quite a lot different. Both curries use the same onion sauce but here I blended it to make a smoother sauce. Check out my chicken dopiaza to see it used unblended.
Using some of the cooking stock from your pre-cooked lamb will also make the flavour quite different. You may be using the same onion and base curry sauce in both dopiazas but adding the cooking stock helps make them completely different curries while still having that familiar dopiaza flavour.
This curry does take a lot of forward preparation. You need to pre-cook your meat, make an onion sauce and of course the essential base curry sauce. Do all this ahead of time, however and you can make this lamb dopiaza curry in just ten minutes!
Melt the ghee in a pan over medium high heat and then add the whole spices
Add the ground spices and sizzle for about 40 seconds, the stir in the garlic and ginger paste and the tomato paste.
Add about 200ml of the cooking stock from your pre-cooked meat.
add the meat to the spiced stock.
Pour in the onion sauce and base curry sauce.
Add the fried onions and stir to combine. Top with the dried fenugreek and season with salt and pepper.
Make this tonight!
- 800g - pre-cooked meat
- 4 tablespoons ghee
- 6 greed cardamom pods - smashed
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 3 tablespoons garlic and ginger paste
- 1 tablespoon tomato paste
- 1 tablespoons curry powder
- 1 tablespoons garam masala
- 1 tablespoons cumin powder
- 1 teaspoon coriander powder
- 1 - 2 teaspoons mild red chilli powder
- 500ml onion sauce
- 500ml curry sauce
- 1 tablespoon dried fenugreek leaves
- 2 handfuls of fried onion (make it yourself of purchase at Asian shops)
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 1 small bunch fresh coriander - chopped
- Melt the ghee over medium high heat in a frying pan or wok.
- When bubbling, add the cardamom pods and cumin seeds.
- Allow to sizzle for about 40 seconds and then add the ground spices.
- Spoon in the garlic and ginger paste and the tomato paste and stir it all up to combine.
- Now add the blended onion sauce and the base curry sauce.
- Add the meat and about 100ml to 200ml of the cooking juices from the pre-cooked meat.
- Stir in the fenugreek leaves and top with two large handfuls of fried onions.
- Check for seasoning and the add the fresh coriander and salt and pepper to taste.
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Hi! I love your blog almost as much as I love Indian Food!
In this recipe you mentioned onion sauce & a base curry sauce. The links provided to those recipes didn’t work. Can I find them some place else?
Thanks,
Denise Fairley
Queens, NY, USA
Hi Denise
Sorry about that. The links are now working. 🙂
Thank you.
Dan
Dan this is fantastic. All three of the recipes are top notch and I am definitely giving them a go this weekend! In this one alone you give a fantastic version of LAMB DOPIAZA plus the onion and curry sauce recipes. Pure heaven my friend! 🙂
Amazing job you have done.Thanks a lot for this delicious recipe.
Just mouth watering
Thank you very much. 🙂
Dan
Looks so nice because I love the spicy curry food! Thanks for the post.
Thank George!
Dan
Wowwww nice colour
Thanks Fizza. 🙂
Dan
looks very nice thenkyou
Thank you.
Dan
wonderfull, did have to add a bit more tomato paste, but used can tomatoes in base sauce
Great to hear Steff. Thank you.
Dan
When it comes to authentic ingredients, I really prefer not to substitute, but we only get to shop at an Indian market about twice a year. Forgot to get fenugreek leaves. Is there a substitute you recommend, or are Kasoori methi one of those things that really don’t substitute well? Thank you.
Hi Jessica
You could stir in fenugreek powder to taste but remember it is a lot stronger than the leave. Just a pinch at first! You could add more to taste if need.
Thanks,
Dan