Topic: Cabbage in a Curry Base?

[tommy99]

Last night I ordered a biryani. I noticed the side sauce had a lot of white cabbage in it (with potatoes and carrot).

I doubt that BIR buy-in white cabbage just to use in a biryani side curry.

I think that it is highly likely that white cabbage is in the base gravy. They then use cabbage (and potatoes and carrots) again but in chunks to fill-out the biryani curry.

[Naga]

ChewyTikka uses white cabbage in his base gravy. I made some the other day and had it with UncleBuck's Pathia recipe and very nice it was too!

[tommy99]

ChewyTikka uses white cabbage in his base gravy. I made some the other day and had it with UncleBuck's Pathia recipe and very nice it was too!

Many thanks for that. I had a quick read of some of his posts and he says that some chefs also use a little bit of cauliflower in the gravy too.

I noticed a little bit of cauliflower in my BIR Biryani side sauce.

Ummm... it seems that the biryani side sauce has the same chunks of veg (potato, onion, cabbage, carrot, and sometimes cauliflower) in it as goes in to make the actual curry base gravy. It is so logical and obvious that perhaps no-one else has noticed the link before.

[Aussie Mick]

I've tried a few bases off this site.

My two favourites are CA and CT.

If I do CA's base, i ALWAYS add a quarter of a cabbage as well as a tsp each of fenugreek powder and cardamom powder. The rest is as per CA's base insructions.

This is now my regular base