Dad's Cuisine

CHUNI LAL'S MALAI CURRY A tasty curry straight from Dad's childhood in India. Now that Dad has stopped relying so much on takeaways, he's been craving a decent homemade curry. Having grown up in Burma and India, he knows a thing or two about how a decent curry should taste.  This dish is one that was prepared by Dad's family's cook, Chuni Lal, when the family was in Delhi. As a child, Dad would sit cross-legged on the kitchen floor with Chuni Lal as he ground spices, chopped onions and garlic and smoked his biri (a foul smelling Indian cigarette, according to Dad).  This is a Malai recipe – Malai was the cooking style of the cooks of the Mughal emperors . The Mughals conquered the entire Indian subcontinent, but hated the spicy, fiery curries of their subjects. Malai cooking was created to make curries which were easier on the palate. We are exceedingly proud of Dad, who made this curry from scratch, using a recipe he found on a scrap of paper in his M...