Topic: Base Gravy Thoughts

[emin-j]

 Made a couple of madras curry's for the Mrs and me tonight and very tasty too  but they were a little on the thick side really but I am finding I have to use the best part of a tablespoon of spice mix plus 1 - 2 teaspoons of kashmiri chili to reach an acceptable flavour but this leads to being quite a thick paste mopping all the oil up in the pan  ::)The local BIR's curry's seem to be a thinner consistency but retain that lovely savoury flavour (not always though  :)This got me thinking that if the base was quite heavily spiced I wouldn't need to add so much spice to the finished dish and so might not end up with such a heavy sauce  On the other hand I am using curry2go's base and spice mix at the moment and the base is quite heavily spiced but still need a fair amount of spice mix for a decent flavour,I could add water in the final dish to give a thinner consistency but this tends to weaken the flavour.

[natterjak]

Hi emin-j - are you sure you're frying your spices thoroughly enough to bring out their flavour, you should really only need 1 tsp or 2tsp mix powder tops. I really don't think the base gravy needs to be heavily spiced.

[emin-j]

Hi emin-j - are you sure you're frying your spices thoroughly enough to bring out their flavour, you should really only need 1 tsp or 2tsp mix powder tops. I really don't think the base gravy needs to be heavily spiced.

Hi nj, yes tried all levels of frying including burning  : could be cooking down the curry's too much I suppose but still need a fair bit of mix to produce a reasonable flavour, the c2go base is quite highly spiced but I still need a fair amount of c2go mix powder for the flavour.

[Whandsy]

Hi nj, yes tried all levels of frying including burning  : could be cooking down the curry's too much I suppose but still need a fair bit of mix to produce a reasonable flavour, the c2go base is quite highly spiced but I still need a fair amount of c2go mix powder for the flavour.

Just wondering emin-j are you making his base as per the ebook, or as per his youtube video?

The reason i ask is i thought the youtube video whilst very good, is a bit vague on some elements, eg pot size and spicing, whereas the ebook is more in depth regards quantities and consistency (indeed i thought my 1st batch as per video was well overspiced, but not so when following the ebook). Also, the last batch of base i made was much more thinned down than i would have thought to be correct, but the resultant curry was delicious! and consistency spot on.

W

[emin-j]

Hi nj, yes tried all levels of frying including burning  : could be cooking down the curry's too much I suppose but still need a fair bit of mix to produce a reasonable flavour, the c2go base is quite highly spiced but I still need a fair amount of c2go mix powder for the flavour.

Just wondering emin-j are you making his base as per the ebook, or as per his youtube video?

The reason i ask is i thought the youtube video whilst very good, is a bit vague on some elements, eg pot size and spicing, whereas the ebook is more in depth regards quantities and consistency (indeed i thought my 1st batch as per video was well overspiced, but not so when following the ebook). Also, the last batch of base i made was much more thinned down than i would have thought to be correct, but the resultant curry was delicious! and consistency spot on.

W

Hi Whandsy, yes from the video matey