daydreamingwill
Assistant Cook
Hi all,
Recently, I was following a recipe for a curry. However, I became nervous when the recipe instructed that I should add a can of tinned chopped tomatoes to a couple of tbsps worth of preheated oil. The reason for my concern is that tinned chopped tomatoes are very watery. It seems like I'm just going to start a fire if I tip a can of chopped tomatoes into hot oil!
I'm very nervous around heated oil these days, because in the past I added some frozen veg to preheated sunflower oil (so stupid in hindsight I know). Even though it was a very small quantity of oil, and only a little veg, the flames were rather big.. and a little scary...
In the end, I added the chopped tomatoes to the oil, whilst it was still cold. I think the quality of the dish suffered from this. So, am I being paranoid here? Or am I missing something? Finally, has anyone done something like this? Advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!
Recently, I was following a recipe for a curry. However, I became nervous when the recipe instructed that I should add a can of tinned chopped tomatoes to a couple of tbsps worth of preheated oil. The reason for my concern is that tinned chopped tomatoes are very watery. It seems like I'm just going to start a fire if I tip a can of chopped tomatoes into hot oil!
I'm very nervous around heated oil these days, because in the past I added some frozen veg to preheated sunflower oil (so stupid in hindsight I know). Even though it was a very small quantity of oil, and only a little veg, the flames were rather big.. and a little scary...
In the end, I added the chopped tomatoes to the oil, whilst it was still cold. I think the quality of the dish suffered from this. So, am I being paranoid here? Or am I missing something? Finally, has anyone done something like this? Advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!