Hello all.. im new to this site been cooking currys at home for some time mainly from curry recipe books and have never really had a great result with exeption to butter chicken.

I tried making the curry base last night closely following the recipe. Unfortuatly i think somthing went wrong somewhere down the line as the end result i got was a darkish brown/green colour and tast horrid, very bitter.... I think it is down to the tumeric but not really sure where i went wrong. I didnt add as much water as coudnt fit it in the pan and i put an extra stick of celery in there. also when i added the spice and water it didnt go a tomateo puree texture just very watery.

I dont want to bin the base... any one got any advise on anything i can do/add to improve it?
Or knows where i went wrong?

Shall i just use it or is it only fit for the bin?

Thanks
Dan