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Curry Base Recipes => Curry Sauce, Curry Base , Curry Gravy Recipes, Secret Curry Base => Topic started by: Aussie Mick on February 10, 2013, 07:23 PM
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This is the base gravy we use.
Mainly based (no pun intended) on CA and CT gravies.
This makes 25 litres, so scale down
- 1.5 kg fresh tomatoes
- 2 green peppers
- 1/2 bunch celery icluding leaves
- 1/2 white cabbage
- 4 generous tbsps garlic/ginger puree, plus an extra 30 % of garlic cloves
- 2.5 tbsps salt
- 6 good sized carrots
- 10 heaped tbsps tomato paste
- 2 litres veg oil
- 7kg onions
- water
Usual method, boil till soft (we use BIG pressure cookers) then add
- 6 tbsps mixed powder
- 2 tbsps curry powder
- 1 tbsp cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp fenugreek powder
- a big handfull of coriander stalks/roots
Boil up for a few minutes and blend to a smooth consistency adding water as required.
Let it simmer till oil starts to seperate and then......................cook curry 8)
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So what benefit do you think is to be had from the celery, cabbage etc . Not just ' that is the way we do it' . ;) not wishing to be awkward but interested as to what it adds other than more fibrous matter that is best sieved out.
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This is the base gravy we use.
Mainly based (no pun intended) on CA and CT gravies.
This makes 25 litres, so scale down
- 1.5 kg fresh tomatoes
- 2 green peppers
- 1/2 bunch celery icluding leaves
- 1/2 white cabbage
- 4 generous tbsps garlic/ginger puree, plus an extra 30 % of garlic cloves
- 2.5 tbsps salt
- 6 good sized carrots
- 10 heaped tbsps tomato paste
- 2 litres veg oil
- water
Usual method, boil till soft (we use BIG pressure cookers) then add
- 6 tbsps mixed powder
- 2 tbsps curry powder
- 1 tbsp cardamom powder
- 1 tbsp fenugreek powder
- a big handfull of coriander stalks/roots
Boil up for a few minutes and blend to a smooth consistency adding water as required.
Let it simmer till oil starts to seperate and then......................cook curry 8)
What no onions? ;D
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What no onions? ;D
It's probably illegal to import them : you know what a paranoid bunch the Aussies are !
** Phil.
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Oh dear.. Hands up.. Didn't even notice that.
No onions?
:o
;)
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How many sticks of celery Mick?
Cheers.
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As an Aussie resident, what are these "onions" of which I hear you speak?
8)
No doubt Mick will amend when W.A. once again rolls round into the sunlit hours. I'd guess the celery and cabbage give a bit of an "umami" note to the gravy.
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LOL
7 KG onions too.
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We use about half a bunch of celery UF. If we have no cabbage, then we'd put a full buch in.
The veg just offsets the sweetness of all those onions, and leaves a more balanced final base. I did make a batch once where we had no cabbage or celery and we had a few complaints that week abouyt a "sweetness" in the curries. Check out comments on facebook page.
It takes a fair bit more blending with all that veg in there, but well worth it IMHO. An extra 10 min's in the pressure cooker helps to soften everything up.
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How many sticks of celery in a bunch?
In the U.K it's about 9-10 celery sticks.
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About the same here Frank.