Yeah I came to that conclusion too, however I used this gravy with a sample recipe elsewhere from this site, but as I was hungry at the time (7pm, came back from work and starving) I did a cut down version of a madras reciepe and it tasted ok, but it wasnt the same - tasted a bit bland, no depth to it. Probably wasnt the base that caused this but cutting out some ingredients in the reciepe itself. Froze the rest, and doing a new batch this pm. Will try another bas sauce recipe this time to compare.