Curries can be watery, dry, red, green, hot, or really, really hot-it’s completely up to the chef and the target audience being served. However, “curry” has become a catch-all name for any spice-based meat or vegetable dish with a sauce. They not only make the food more exciting and flavorful but have health benefits too.Ĭontrary to common belief, not all Indian dishes are curries. There are a basic 20 to 30 spices that are used in many dishes-cumin, coriander, turmeric, and ginger, to name a few-and there are an infinite number of ways of using them. A plate of Indian food will have sweet, sour, butter, savory all in different portions of curries. Indian Food has various depths of flavor – it’s never a flat. If you are new to Indian food you will experience a tingling sensation in your mouth or throat and that’s because your palate is experiencing taste that it has never experienced before. Often Indian food is compared to hot & spicy food but the truth is its flavorful! It engages with every part of your tongue, your palate.
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And by the end of this blog, I promise you would have learnt how to make a basic Indian Curry (of course there are loads of variation to it but let’s stick to the basic for now). To be honest it’s very easy to cook Indian when you understand the use of the basic spices. Now comes the biggest myth of Indian cooking being complicated due to the use of spices. I have 3 spice boxes with different ingredients! GUILTY! It’s not always the standard ingredients as you see below, but keeps varying depending on the part of the country (India) you belong. But for daily use I have this spice box or as we call it ‘Masala Dabba’ in Hindi for my everyday cooking. In my kitchen I have an entire cupboard dedicated to the varieties of spices, two racks in my refrigerator and a special portion of my freezer as well. And hence we can’t think beyond them! Duh! And why won’t it be, India has been the spice capital of the world, the largest producer of almost all spices known. There is no Indian who can cook without spices, to add to our fascination of spices we even add them to our tea or use them for their medicinal purposes as well. Spices are the way of life for any Indian kitchen.
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