Topic: Base gravy using roasted onions.

[jonnymansell]

Hi,

Has anyone ever tried roasting onions before making the base gravy?

I love the taste of a roasted onion and thought that it may work in cooking a curry, i haven't tried this myself yet but will give it a go and report back what I find.

Cheers.

[jonnymansell]

Awful, don't bother! Haha.

[Onions]

Classic!  ;D Cheers for risking life and limb in curry R&D   but I kind of thought it might be... did you roast them and then boil them through or blend them after roasting, and then mixing?

[jonnymansell]

Roasted and then boiled into CAs base. I think I over roasted to be honest but it's not worth even trying again. 😣

[Sverige]

Oh well, nothing ventured nothing gained. I was sceptical when I saw your first post but didn't want to go all negative on you.

My advice would be to stick with a popular base recipe like any of chewytikkas, or the currently in-vogue JB base.

Doing things differently is sometimes worth a try though. Today I've made the bhagar for a batch of base sauce in a casserole in the oven, to see if a less-mess alternative was possible. Seems to have gone ok but took a long time. Mind you, tthe base is yet to be fully completed to I'll know for sure if the flavours are ok later when I taste it.

[Kattis]

Hi,

Has anyone ever tried roasting onions before making the base gravy?

I love the taste of a roasted onion and thought that it may work in cooking a curry, i haven't tried this myself yet but will give it a go and report back what I find.

Cheers.

i have deep fried.. but i think the idea is to boil the onions base, then when you added it to your curries.. the onion caramelizes and gives it the sweetness.. so pre-frying or roasting the onions would spoil that "innit"    but of course experiment away