Topic: British Indian 2 go base gravy recipe

[Aussie Mick]

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

[RubyDoo]

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.

[uclown2002]

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

What no onions?  ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

What no onions?  ;D

It's probably illegal to import them : you know what a paranoid bunch the Aussies are !
** Phil.

[RubyDoo]

Oh dear.. Hands up.. Didn't even notice that.

No onions? 

 

 

[Unclefrank]

How many sticks of celery Mick?
Cheers.

[beachbum]

As an Aussie resident, what are these "onions" of which I hear you speak?

 

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.

[Aussie Mick]

LOL

7 KG onions too.

[Aussie Mick]

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.

[Unclefrank]

How many sticks of celery in a bunch?
In the U.K it's about 9-10 celery sticks.