Topic: Why we cannot produce that missing taste ?

[Yousef]

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[haldi]

I tried another theory for the missing flavour
I wondered what might happen to old poppadoms
I thought perhaps, they might end up in the gravy
Well, I added a few into my curry gravy pot
It certainly did no harm, but it made no major difference

[bighairybloke]

After eating a takeaway or restaurant curry, my hands always have a BBQ smokey smell. When reproducing curries at home, they never seem to have this smell.

Has anyone else managed to reproduce this smokey smell and taste in the curry? Any ideas what could be causing it, or whether it could be linked to the missing taste? I don't think it can be from the meat being cooked in the tandoor, as from what I can gather in the forum, the meat isn't usually cooked this way except for Tandoori chicken, etc. Could it be a missing ingredient such as BBQ sauce, which seems to have a smokey smell and taste?

The smokey taste is either by toasting or burning garlic, or from the curry leaf fried at the begining of cooking your curry.  Black Cardamom pods also have a smokey taste due to thier being dried over smokey fires, so a combination of all these could produce the flavor we are looking for.

steve