Curry is a long-established and very useful mixture of spices based on the root of turmeric, which originated in one of the Indian culinary traditions. Also called many dishes from different products, cooked using a mixture of curry. This sauce is prepared using a dry mixture of curry spices. Currently, curry seasoning is widespread, and dishes with it are prepared everywhere. The pounded turmeric root has a pleasant spicy aroma and a mild, slightly unpleasant taste, so other ingredients are added to this spice. Curry can be quite sharp and, conversely, have a soft and delicate taste, but the fragrance and shades remain quite characteristic, so the smell of curry is difficult to confuse with any other sauce.
How to cook curry?
In India, cooking curry sauce is a traditional thing. Typically, Indians are preparing a dry curry mixture immediately before use from fresh ingredients, from this mixture and prepare the curry sauce at home. The approach to the recipe is not fixed and completely creative - everyone prepares to their taste, only adhering to the general principles. Of course, in different regions, peoples and tribes of India, the curry sauce composition is very different. It is used for aromatization and coloring of rice, vegetables, meat, fish and other products. In addition, curry has pronounced curative properties - it increases immunity, prevents the appearance of atherosclerotic plaques on the internal walls of the vessels and the development of cancer.
Cooking curry
How to prepare a curry sauce yourself? For the preparation of dishes with curry sauce necessarily use a dry curry mixture, with which you can cook chicken, lamb, fish, rice, legumes and other products. Here is an approximate list of the ingredients of the dry curry mixture: turmeric, coriander, red pepper, black pepper, sweet pepper, cardamom, cumin, fenugreek, ginger, clove, cinnamon, mustard, paprika, cayenne pepper, azhgon, fennel, garlic, nutmeg. Impressive, right? The proportions vary. For those who do not want to bother with the self-preparation of a mixture of curry, you can advise you to buy a ready-made dry mix in the market or in the supermarket (usually there are 2 options available - acute and less acute).
Curry Chicken
Very delicious turns chicken under curry sauce.
Ingredients:
- 1 chicken breast;
- 1 large onion;
- 1 cup of natural milk cream;
- 2 tablespoons of wheat flour in / s;
- 1-2 tablespoons of curry powder;
- a little vegetable oil.
Preparation:
First, save the wheat flour in a dry frying pan on low heat until light changes in shade (about 2-4 minutes), stirring with a spatula. We'll peel the onions and cut them finely. We chop the chicken fillet with small cubes, lightly salted and fry in a frying pan on vegetable oil from both sides to a delicious golden brown shade. During the frying of chicken fillet in a separate frying pan fry onion in vegetable oil until golden hue on medium heat. We stir in the glass of cream the passaged flour with a fork or a whisk. Komochki should not be. Add the fried onion, dry mixture of curry and beef to a creamy-flour mixture in a frying pan with fried chicken pieces. Thoroughly mix everything and let's simmer on low heat until the sauce thickens
Dishes with curry - it's delicious
Finished chicken fillet in a curry sauce is served well with young boiled potatoes, with rice, with asparagus, young string beans and other legumes. Be sure to decorate the dish with twigs of greenery. No less tasty with curry are dishes from any other types of meat, poultry, fish and many cereals, legumes and vegetables. Such a fragrant, tasty and useful seasoning, used, of course, within reasonable limits, can pleasantly change the taste of even the most boring dishes for the better.