Optional Extras

If you'd like to personalise your stay at Hawthorn Farm, you might like to add one or more optional extras!

How about starting your holiday with a delicious handmade curry supper straight from the oven, made using the freshest local ingredients? If making it yourself doesn't appeal, then our friends at The Chai Stop in nearby Minster, make an authentic range of individually prepared and freshly frozen award winning curries! The good news is that they can be delivered to your cottage in time for your arrival, and you can cook them in your cottage oven whenever you're ready for them - straight from frozen!

Typical Meat Curry Supper Menu for two:

  • Onion Bhajis x4: With spices, green chilli & lemon juice
  • Beef Madras: Hot & rich with plenty of chillies, ginger, garlic & Madras spices
  • Kashmiri Lamb: With ginger, garlic, spices tomatoes & cream
  • Sag Aloo: Spinach & potato cooked with spices, garlic and tomatoes
  • Spiced Basmati Rice x2: Delicately flavoured with black cumin & cardamom


Typical Chicken Curry Supper Menu for two:

  • Onion Bhajis x4: With spices, green chilli & lemon juice
  • Chicken Dopiaza: With fresh ginger, tomatoes, whole spices & plenty of onions
  • Chicken Bhopali: Smooth and mild, marinated in lemon juice, garlic and ginger and then cooked with yoghurt, cream & The Chai Stop's special blend of spices
  • Bombay Potato: Cooked with seeds and spices, tomatoes, ginger and garlic, finished with fresh coriander
  • Pilau Rice x2: With whole spices, carrots, onions & peas


Typical Vegetarian Curry Supper Menu for two:

  • Onion Bhajis x4: With spices, green chilli & lemon juice
  • Mixed Vegetable Curry: Seasonal vegetables braised with whole spices cooked gently in their own juice
  • Chickpea Curry: Chickpeas in a delicious sauce with tomatoes, ginger, garlic & coconut milk
  • Tarkha Dhal: Spiced red lentils with garlic, red chillies, lemon juice and 
    fresh coriander
  • Green Bean and Coconut: With mustard seeds, garlic and chilli
  • Mushroom Rice x2: Cooked in spices with sauteed mushrooms

Please Note: Let us know if you want to order anything else or to swap any dishes and we'll tell you if there is an additional cost. New recipes are being introduced by The Chai Stop all the time, so the above menu and the picture is for illustration purposes only.

Allergy Advice:
All The Chai Stop curries are wheat and gluten free and cooked using extra virgin cold pressed rapeseed oil from the nearby Quex Park Estate.  All the fresh vegetable produce comes from PK Produce in Biddenden who supply the National Trust and a local producer in Sandwich. Winter vegetables from local farms, when available, are used in winter-warmers such as Leek & Potatoes, Cauliflower & Ginger and Carrot & Curry Leaf.  Dairy free options available.

Housekeeping Request:
We really want to you to enjoy your curry supper, but we do as ask that you are extra vigilant when cooking/serving curries or any other food which stains (such as tomato-based sauces), as these are extremely difficult to clean and can result in items such as wipeable (but not stain-proof) tablecloths, chopping boards or even cupboard doors, flooring and work-tops having to be replaced!

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