I Want To Prepare My Own Curry <<>> Step 1 - Identifying Ingredients In Curries
In India and the Middle East every family has their own, closely guarded, recipe for the spices that when prepared and mixed together are known in the West as Curry.. I know that a particular Yemenite family has different curries for use in soup and for other particular dishes. The soup curry is known as hawaij. This means there is not just one curry per family, but a family of curries for each family.
Perhaps some cooks do feature their own family's recipe in their published cookbooks. I have found a few curry recipes online.
Here is the best article I have found on the different spices used as ingredients in a number of well known currie powders:
www.lionsgrip.com/curingredients.html
According to Wikepedia;
1. Curry powder is a spice mix of widely varying composition based on South Asian cuisine. Curry powder and the contemporary English use of the word "curry" are Western inventions and do not reflect any specific South Asian food, though a similar mixture of spices used in north South Asia is called garam masala.
2. Curry powder is actually closer to the Tamil sambar powder,[citation needed] and the word "curry" is derived from the Tamil word kari meaning "sauce, relish for rice", or from the Kannada word karil or from the Telugu word kuura.
Use of curry was prevalent in South Asia much before the advent of Europeans in India. In fact, almost 4000 years prior to the advent of Europeans, curry with key ingredients of ginger, garlic, and turmeric was used in the Indus Valley Civilization.
I add:
1. However, traders from Arabia and from Portuguese Goa introduced very hot Brazilian chile peppers, and that added new dimensions to the curry ingredients and taste pallet. .
2. Also, their mixing of other Asian spices enabled the development of 'curi'.
Ingredients
Most curry powder recipes include coriander, turmeric, cumin, fenugreek, and chili peppers in their blends. Depending on the recipe, additional ingredients such as ginger, garlic, asafoetida, fennel seed, caraway, cinnamon, clove, mustard seed, green cardamom, black cardamom, nutmeg, long pepper, and black pepper may also be included. Quality curry powder will contain curry leaf.[4][citation needed]
I add: I have no idea what curry leaf is!!
I Want To Prepare My Own Curry <<>> Step 1 - Identifying Ingredients In Curries
In India and the Middle East every family has their own, closely guarded, recipe for the spices that when prepared and mixed together are known in the West as Curry.. I know that a particular Yemenite family has different curries for use in soup and for other particular dishes. The soup curry is known as hawaij. This means there is not just one curry per family, but a family of curries for each family.
Perhaps some cooks do feature their own family's recipe in their published cookbooks. I have found a few curry recipes online.
Here is the best article I have found on the different spices used as ingredients in a number of well known currie powders:
www.lionsgrip.com/curingredients.html
According to Wikepedia;
1. Curry powder is a spice mix of widely varying composition based on South Asian cuisine. Curry powder and the contemporary English use of the word "curry" are Western inventions and do not reflect any specific South Asian food, though a similar mixture of spices used in north South Asia is called garam masala.
2. Curry powder is actually closer to the Tamil sambar powder,[citation needed] and the word "curry" is derived from the Tamil word kari meaning "sauce, relish for rice", or from the Kannada word karil or from the Telugu word kuura.
Use of curry was prevalent in South Asia much before the advent of Europeans in India. In fact, almost 4000 years prior to the advent of Europeans, curry with key ingredients of ginger, garlic, and turmeric was used in the Indus Valley Civilization.
I add:
1. However, traders from Arabia and from Portuguese Goa introduced very hot Brazilian chile peppers, and that added new dimensions to the curry ingredients and taste pallet. .
2. Also, their mixing of other Asian spices enabled the development of 'curi'.
Ingredients
Most curry powder recipes include coriander, turmeric, cumin, fenugreek, and chili peppers in their blends. Depending on the recipe, additional ingredients such as ginger, garlic, asafoetida, fennel seed, caraway, cinnamon, clove, mustard seed, green cardamom, black cardamom, nutmeg, long pepper, and black pepper may also be included. Quality curry powder will contain curry leaf.[4][citation needed]
I add: I have no idea what curry leaf is!!