Help: Basic Indian Curry Sauce Recipe Wanted ONLY Using Ingredients I Have !

currantbun

re.post 4
you don't have to add the rice while it cooks, you could just add veggies and do the rice plain. I suggested cooking it all together because you said you liked biryani. It won't be dry if you keep checking at and add water if it needs it. The curried rice is gorgeous. Now get up and cook something, just because its cold is no excuse!!

afterglow_2

.....dont forget the salt and pepper!! and feel free to mix and match the spices, and add almonds, sultanas, whatever you fancy, and a final garnish of fresh coriander, swirl of yoghurt!!

PasturesNew

afterglow wrote: »

.....dont forget the salt and pepper!! and feel free to mix and match the spices, and add almonds, sultanas, whatever you fancy, and a final garnish of fresh coriander, swirl of yoghurt!!

I have salt/pepper (never used to buy the things until I started this proper cooking lark!

Swirls of yoghurt should be banned. I hate the thought of yoghurt. I just think "live" ... and have visions of mould growing.

PasturesNew

OK. Shamed into action.

Going to make #4 with separate rice then.



Thanks everybody!

PasturesNew

Well, it all started off OK. But at the last minute I thought I'd use the ginger I've got. I've never seen/used ginger before, so had to make it up, just cut it up small, but it was all a bit stringy, so ended up with very little in the curry. Then, I thought "I've got those wooden things, I'll chuck one of those in", a cinnamon stick (small bit).

So, all's well. Smells great. All simmering. Half an hour in, I just smelt it and it's stopped "smelling right". At the start it smelt right/lovely. But now I seem to have a saucepan of red stuff that doesn't even smell of curry.

I had a taste and it's edible. Just not indian and not curry. And it's red, so doesn't even look like a curry.

I'll have to eat it though, it's taken me 1.5 hours from start to finish and created a pile of washing up that needed doing! And my washing smells of it as it's in the room ... should have opened all the windows first I guess.