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| Basic Curry Sauce Recipe |
Category: Curries
Rating:
4.03
Servings: 8
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Ingredients
2 lb cooking onions
2 oz green ginger
2 oz garlic
2 3/4 pint water
1 teaspoon salt
1 8oz tin tomatoes
8 tablespoon vegetable oil
1 teaspoon tomato puree
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon paprika
Directions: How to Cook Basic Curry Sauce
This is a recipe for a base curry sauce. It is not a dish in itself but requires adding other ingredients to it to finish a particular dish.
Stage 1 Peel and rinse the onions, ginger and garlic. Slice the onions and roughly chop the ginger and garlic.
Put the chopped ginger and garlic in a blender with about 1/2 a pint of the water and blend until smooth.
Take a large saucepan and put in the onions, blended garlic and ginger and the rest of the water.
Add the salt and bring to the boil. Turn down the heat to very low ans simmer with the lid on for 40-45 minutes.
LEAVE TO COOL
Stage 2 Once cooled, pour about half of the boiled onion mixture into a blender and blend until perfectly smooth. (at least 2 minutes). Pour the blended onion mixture into a clean pan or bowl and repeat with the other half of the boiled onions.
Wash and dry the saucepan. Reserve about 4 tablespoons of the sauce at this stage to use in cooking the meat in your chosen curry.
Stage 3 Pour the can of tomatoes into the rinsed blender and blend until perfectly smooth (about 2 minutes).
Into the clean saucepan, put the oil, tomato puree, turmeric and paprica.
Add the blended tomatoes and bring to the boil. Turn down the heat and cook, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes.
Add the onion mixture to the saucepan and bring to the boil. Turn down the heat to a simmer.
When froth rises skim this off.
Simmer for 20-25 minutes, stirring occasionally to stop the sauce sticking to the bottom of the saucepan.
Use immediately or refrigerate for upto 4 days.
This recipe has been taken from the book 'The curry Secret' by Kris Dhillon. isbn 0-7160-0850-5 Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V4 #257 by Jack Elvis on Sep 29, 1997
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Recent comments on this recipe:
 | | Hillico writes:
This is the best curry I have ever made.
Posted on 28 Mar 2008, 17:03 ET
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| st writes:
Dhillon's book is well worth picking up. You will not make authentic Indian
curries following his recipes, but rather those styles of curry dishes
commonly encountered in British 'Indian' curry houses. And that in itself
is a _Good Thing_.
Very small paperback volume that will fit, almost, in a shirt pocket.
Posted on 02 Apr 2008, 18:56 ET
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| dave writes:
i agree with st,try the chicken tikka masala and the tandoori marinade
Posted on 11 May 2008, 02:55 ET
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| Christine writes:
Good recipe can't wait to try it, the blending of the onion mixture is
maybe where I have gone wrong in past!
Posted on 27 Jun 2009, 15:48 ET
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| Scott writes:
This is a good sauce. I think I have improved it by blending 3 small green
chillis (deseeded) at the ginger and garlic stage and adding half a tsp of
ground coriander and a tsp of fenugreek at the turmuric and paprika stage.
Posted on 02 Oct 2009, 08:39 ET
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| Paul writes:
I bought his book and lost it somewhere but his recipie for this base mix
is the real deal. the base mix when done seems thin but when it hits the
hot cooking oil/ghee in the next process it amazingly thickens.
Posted on 04 Nov 2009, 11:10 ET
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| Paul writes:
dont forget you need to know the next stage... thats where you add the
spices ie chillie cumin garam masala etc i would strongly advise kris
dhillons book the curry secret it works.
Posted on 04 Nov 2009, 12:23 ET
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| Ruth writes:
I just made this recipe today, its very nice but needs chillis and other
spices to bring it up to a nice curry. Well worth making. Am putting fish
with it tonight.
Posted on 08 Dec 2009, 01:07 ET
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| Gazbo writes:
Everyone is referring to Kris Dhillon as he or him....Kris Dhillon is a
lady lol
Posted on 25 Jan 2010, 05:50 ET
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| Paul writes:
I had this sauce recipe it all so has 1 tea spoon of finely ground black
pepper and 1 dessert spoon of garam masala in it.
Posted on 01 Aug 2010, 11:21 ET
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| Mark writes:
don't forget that this is a 'base sauce'. the recipes in the book call for
the base sauce plus other spices. before adding spices to the base sauce,
i would advise following the recipes to get the 'authentic' British curry
flavour! :)
Posted on 02 Nov 2010, 23:11 ET
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| Richy writes:
had the same book years ago, i found the base sauce excelent but, to make
it almost exactly like a takeaway/restaurant i would add (at the
turmeric/paprika stage) 1/2 tspoon ground fenugreek, 1 tbl spoon garam
masala and 1 tspoon black pepper. This gives near perfect results. Also,
any recipe using the base sauce that requires chilli powder i found i
generally doubled the amount of chilli powder. hope this helps. enjoy!!
Posted on 11 Jan 2011, 03:04 ET
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| Peter writes:
Nice to find so many fellow Dhillon enthusiasts; for those who find the
dishes a little oily, try heating up a bit less oil first,then lightly
frying the spices in it before adding the onion mix to the pan.
Just realized I've been making this magic sauce base for twelve years!
Posted on 28 Jan 2011, 10:12 ET
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| Anna writes:
Love the curry secret book!
My no.1 tip is to preheat a slowcooker and when i make the garlic, ginger
water to the onion i add boiling hot water- then add it to the slow cooker
and cook it in my outdoor laundry room as it is STINKY!
Posted on 21 Apr 2011, 02:50 ET
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