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Same here goncalo. I am fortunate to have a veg guy on the local market here who gets Alot of his produce from London markets and when he goes he will bring me 10 back a time. They are not cheap! I then prepare the quantity I need in advance and freeze the rest. Sorry haven't tried the pickle but was told by Abdul my chef it was a strict no no! Lol. Try it and it may well work for you. Hope this helps A.
Hi, its a type of citrus, pretty much like a sour grapefruit and is native to Bangladesh. Very sour and sometimes even bitter, but works really well with hot curry dishes.
much appreciate the discussion on the pickle. i've got diverted onto balti for the foreseeable future. i had bought a jar of satkora pickle and a spoon out the jar had put fear into my brain (saying only to be used in very small amount).
given what you say i'm going to bin the jar. i have seen the frozen and will take this route when i get back to it and will certainly give the recipe ago.
I spoke to the head chef/owner of Royal Spice in Cambridge and he told me he used 2 tsps of pran shatkora pickle. Now, I've tried his food many a times and trying to follow his advice, I didn't find the flavour I was looking for with the 2 TSPs and in fact, the shatkora pieces in the curry added for sour/bitter explosion when I bit into them - not great. I think the chef had something else going on in his curry and he is obviously not willing to share it.
I've made a chicken staff curry with frozen shatkora and I've also tasted the same recipe made by chef moike but using beef. In both cases, the flavour was always tart. Whereas, Royal Spice's chicken shatkora is a whole other story, it has a tangyness that is very savoury. It is like a lemon, but has a zing to it that isn't tart or sweet. Hard to describe, but addictive once you get into it.
If anyone is looking to buy shatkora, there is a bangladeshi company "IBCO" that makes frozen vegetables and sells frozen shatkora. I can normally source that easily here in Ireland.
Only just seen this recipe. I'm hunting down some Shatkora so might give this recipe a go, it sounds very loaded with the lime, shatkora, mr naga and chaat massala....so it should be right up my street.
literally JUST finished cooking this dish. It is super tasty and a real stand out dish. This is certainly a dish I will prepare again. Will try and add photos in due course.
cooked this again tonight. Tastes absolutely lovely, packed FULL of flavour. Easily better than dishes I've had at most restaurants. I chose to use one frozen shatkora slice. I tsp extra hot chilli powder and 1 tsp kashmiri chilli powder
Hey SF. I made it nice and saucy, just how I like it! I highly recccomend others try this recipe, it really has something different to it with the shatkora and a good amount of heat which is to my liking!
Hi, Have only just seen this recipe which i will try later in the week. I have never been able to find a fresh Shatkora although ive been looking for them for ages. Near Burton we have a few Asian type stores which have never heard of them but i regularly go to Coventry and cant find them there either. In fact a lot of staff have never heard of them. I can buy frozen Shatkora no problem though. Ive also tried Birmingham with no luck but its a big place. This is one of my wifes favourite curries and i have improvised in the past so really look forward to trying this.
This month's Curry Club "Curry of the Month" recipe is adeypayne's Shatkora, kindly selected by steveparadox.
Remember, the first member to try this recipe (anew) and report back, with photos, gets to select next month's recipe......CA
PS: This thread might be of help to those who do not know what shatkora is. Searching the forum, for "shatkora", will also throw up a few other discussion threads on the subject (together with suggested substitutes for those that can't acquire fresh shatkora). Also see "Similar Topics" below.
Really interesting recipe, seems to have a lot of indredients. I don’t think I have ever made a curry with so many elements. Time to find out if my local market sells fresh shatkora.
I have never found fresh shatkora, but the frozen shatkora is great and can be found at quite a few places. You can also get shatkora pickle but I recommend the frozen stuff. Bangladeshi curry houses use the frozen or pickled stuff rather than fresh. Cheers
We have this on our curried away menu, a hot and sour dish which is delicious and works well with any meat or even fish! 
