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In this discussion, users share various alternatives to pre-made curry bases when in a pinch. Suggestions include using tinned soups like lentil or carrot and coriander, as well as creating a quick base from grated onion, tomato puree, garlic, ginger, and spices. Some members also reminisce about using baked beans or vegetable soups as effective substitutes, highlighting that these improvisations can still yield tasty results. Overall, the community agrees that while having a base is ideal, there are several creative options for making a curry without one.

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Offline meggeth

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You have just run out of your base.....
« on: January 07, 2013, 07:32 PM »
...and you want to whip up a quick curry.

With your knowledge and experience of how to make a good BIR curry, what could you use instead of your usual pre-made base?

Tinned soups? Heinz lentil soup, carrot and coriander? Vegetable soup? Hand blend it, and off you go. Anything else? I wonder how the curry would come out? I would think it wouldn't be too bad considering all the other experience of how to make a good curry.

Has anyone ever tried this? I might just give it a go when I have no base left, just as an experiment.

Any other thoughts on what might make a good base replacement?
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Offline RubyDoo

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Re: You have just run out of your base.....
« Reply #1 on: January 07, 2013, 07:46 PM »
Will look forward to how you get on. In the meatime - where is the TA menu?  ;)
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Offline Stephen Lindsay

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Re: You have just run out of your base.....
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2013, 08:21 PM »
Quote from: meggeth on January 07, 2013, 07:32 PM
...and you want to whip up a quick curry.

With your knowledge and experience of how to make a good BIR curry, what could you use instead of your usual pre-made base?

Tinned soups? Heinz lentil soup, carrot and coriander? Vegetable soup? Hand blend it, and off you go. Anything else? I wonder how the curry would come out? I would think it wouldn't be too bad considering all the other experience of how to make a good curry.

Has anyone ever tried this? I might just give it a go when I have no base left, just as an experiment.

Any other thoughts on what might make a good base replacement?

the moral of the story is don't run out of base!  ;)
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Offline Peripatetic Phil

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Re: You have just run out of your base.....
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2013, 10:47 PM »
Doesn't the "cook for one" site have a 30-minute base ?  I thought I remembered seeing one there.  If not, you could use a pressure cooker to accelerate a normal base, or (I think) there are one or more recipes on this site for a quick curry from scratch.

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Offline artistpaul

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Re: You have just run out of your base.....
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2013, 12:08 AM »
yes I have had to make a fast one off base and curry with limited available ingredients whilst on holiday with no access to a blender or my usual stock of spices etc and it turned out a very reasonable curry btw

using a grater, grate a whole onion on the finest side of a grater into a pan
add a heaped teaspoon tom puree
add tsp garlic/ginger
add tsp curry powder
add quarter tsp chill powder
1 clove
a little salt
dash of oil
some water

fry the whole lot in oil and water mixture until onion has melted away and you have a soup like consistency adding more water if need be as you cook, 10 mins should do it.

result - a rudimentary usable base for 1 curry

after add whatever you have spice wise and meat wise to produce a final curry
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Offline Unclefrank

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Re: You have just run out of your base.....
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2013, 12:07 PM »
Many moons a go when i was still living with my parents i used to use a tin of baked beans, Heinz, and sieve the juice and use that for my base so to speak and add curry powder, cumin, coriander powder and fresh coriander adding chicken then putting the drained beans back in to the dish, it was lovely. Also made plenty of curries using lentil based soups, carrot and coriander, potato and leek, french onion soup is by far the best, see cook4one site.
Used to have quite a few veggie friends in the early eighties so when we used to doss round friends flats everything was tried, one friend used to boil all sorts of vegetables in a big pot and the taste was just out of this world, reminds me of the bases on here really.
Never occurred to me until yesterday when i was making CA's base and this smell entered my nostrils and i was a teenager again the smell was just the same, the only thing i did different was not stir the base.

When Kwik Save shops used to be the in thing i made a recipe book just using the Kwiksave brands for a few friends with around 7-8 curry recipes in there using soups, wish i could find it.
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