Curry sauce is most often associated with India. But recently, Russian mistresses have increasingly skillfully combined it with dishes of Slavic cuisine. Such a sauce, if desired, can be easily prepared by yourself at home.

The composition of the products and the description of the taste of the sauce

Curry sauce must include the main ingredient - chopped turmeric root. It combines with a liquidish oil base. As the last in simplified recipes, even mayonnaise can be used. Slices of fresh / canned vegetables and even fruits are often added to the sauce. In addition to the curry spice, a whole bunch of other spices can be added to it, for example, cardamom, cloves, anise.

It is very important to strictly follow the sauce recipe and not overdo it with this or that spice.

As a result, the sauce has a spicy and even slightly sour taste. It perfectly complements meat, poultry and legumes.

Classic dressing recipe

It is the classic curry sauce recipe that is the most difficult. It includes a large number of components.

Ingredients:

  • olive oil - 30-35 ml;
  • cinnamon sticks - 3 pcs.;
  • nutmeg, cloves, zira - 2 g each;
  • hot pepper - 1 small pod;
  • cardamom, salt, coriander - 15 g each;
  • onions - 180-200 g;
  • anise, fennel - 5 g each;
  • paprika, brown sugar, turmeric - 20 g each;
  • ginger root - 130-150 g;
  • strong chicken stock - a whole glass;
  • water - a whole glass;
  • prunes (seedless) - 80-100 g;
  • garlic is a whole head.

Execution Process:

  1. Rinse the prunes, hold it for an hour in hot water. Kill the dried fruits with a blender to a pulp state.
  2. Pour cloves, salt, cardamom into a heated skillet. Warm it and grind the dry ingredients in a mortar.Repeat with coriander, fennel and zira.
  3. Then with the remaining spices. At this point, you can already add a little oil to the pan. You must also fry the whole hot pepper pod.
  4. In the remaining oil, brown small onion cubes. Add to it grated garlic and ginger root. Pour in the broth and simmer for 5-6 minutes.
  5. Transfer previously heated spices into a pan. Continue languishing for 3-4 minutes.
  6. Add sugar and dried fruit paste. Pour in water. Cook the mass for 10-12 minutes.
  7. Cool the sauce, kill it with a blender. Wipe through a sieve.
  8. Bring the mass to a boil and remove from heat.

Instead of broth, you can also take fat cream.

Cooking with pineapple and mayonnaise

This is a very simplified version of the preparation of the discussed sauce.

Ingredients:

  • light / classic mayonnaise - 80-100 ml;
  • curry seasoning - 20-25 g;
  • pineapples in the form of canned food - 80-100 g;
  • onions - 130-150 g;
  • salt, freshly ground pepper.

Cooking:

  1. Fruit extracted from syrup. Let it drain. Cut into very small cubes. Send into the blender bowl.
  2. Chop the onion finely. Pour to pineapple.
  3. Add all other ingredients stated in the recipe. Interrupt them to uniformity and airiness.

Such home-made sauce should be well cooled. Then you can serve it to the table.

With tomato paste and oranges

This version of the sauce produces a very original interesting taste. Best of all he will go with pork.

Ingredients:

  • fresh orange - a whole glass;
  • tomato paste - 100-120 ml;
  • olive oil - 40-45 ml;
  • dry curry seasoning - 30-35 g;
  • cayenne pepper - 1 pinch;
  • broth - a whole glass;
  • salt and pepper - a pinch.

 

Execution Process:

  1. To make curry sauce according to this recipe, the first thing you need to heat the vegetable fat in a convenient bowl. In an already hot liquid, send the tomato paste. Stir and leave the components on fire for 5-6 minutes.
  2. Add all the spices stated in the recipe, pour in the juice. Mix everything and continue cooking for another 8-10 minutes.
  3. Add salt. Gradually introduce the broth. Warm up the mass for a couple of minutes and remove from heat.

Ready sauce will turn out with a very pleasant sweet taste.

What to cook with curry sauce

With homemade curry sauce, you can prepare many delicious dishes. First of all, of course, - chicken. To do this, fry the chicken pieces until golden brown, then pour it in a spicy composition and simmer until soft. It is very tasty to serve ready-made treats with boiled rice or various vegetable side dishes.

For cooking pork, curry with pineapple is best. The meat must also be fried first, and then stewed in a flavorful mixture. In the finished sauce is very tasty and bake pork in the oven.

If you plan to serve seafood for dinner, they can also be complemented with homemade curry sauce. Shrimps are fried directly in a fragrant orange mass. As a result, they are obtained with a very bright interesting taste.

Learning how to cook homemade curry sauce will be beneficial for every housewife. Such an additive will help to make even the usual banal dinner more tasty, original.

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