You’re a lifesaver posting this recipe up. My friend cooked it for me about a year ago, and it was a revelation-delicious! When she suggested ‘beetroot curry’ I thought hmmm sounds a bit bland! But it reminded me what a difference making a curry paste from scratch with fresh ingredients can make.

I’ve been promising to cook it for my flatmates since then, and when I searched the internet for the recipe your blog was the only one I could find – thanks!

I was having quite a mission in Brixton today trying to find yellow mustard seeds – the shops in the market only have brown or black. But I was heeding your advice to stick exactly to the recipe and was determined to find the yellow seed – came up trumps in Brixton Wholefoods which has this brilliant system with about 100 old sweet type jars filled with all sorts of spices, you weigh them and bag them yourself – so can in theory buy enough for just one recipe and pay about 5p!

On the same subject, I found this book called ‘The Spice Routes’ recently – I’m loving it, part history of the spice trade – interesting to find out where spices actually originate from – it’s also part travelogue and lots of recipes too. I’ve told my flatmates I’ll cook them a dish from each country in the book, hope it doesn’t take me so long to get around to as the beetroot curry!

Just been taking a look around your blog, will check out your other recipes too!

Dee