Topic: You may find this interesting

[onion]

Hello all

Now you may find this interesting, last night I had a takeaway, nothing amazing there, however along with my usual Madras I also asked them for some plain mild curry sauce, with nothing in it.
I assumed this may be basically just their base sauce largely unadulterated by other ingredients.

I have spent quite some time sniffing it this morning, much to the amusement of my family who arrived in the kitchen to see my face buried in a foil container muttering to myself, we?ve all done it!

It smells and tastes very much like the sauce that is in the vegetable dish that accompanies a Biriani, anyway, I then had a sniff of the Madras sauce, stop laughing. The Madras had undertones of the same smell; it leads me to believe that indeed the plain sauce is mostly base sauce.

You could pick out several different but distinct aromas, quite veggie! I would be interested in any comments you may have about this, or perhaps next time you have a takeaway, try it.

In conclusion, I am going to try a few experiments, I have frozen the plain sauce in small amounts so I can refer to it when I am making base.

Thank you for reading my ramblings, I always get a bit daft after a curry fix. ;D

Onion

[Cory Ander]

Hi Onion,

Yes, your observations seem about right to me Onion. 

The curry base is usually a pretty innocuous veggie/onion tasting sauce (cos veggies and onions is what it has in it...in copious amounts! ). 

Quite pleasant to eat on it's own.  Used, with minimal alteration, for mild curries and things like the sauce for birianis (as you rightly observed).

Regards,