We can cook many varieties of curry such as vegetarian and non-vegetarian. Anyone can cook curry, apart from me, simply because I’m lazy. I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking. I live to eat curry, I don’t eat curry to live.
As curry brings out all flavours, some of us go all he way to add the extra zing such as extra butter and cream. But for those of you who are on diets or simply trying to stay slim, you can reduce the amount of butter, and still enjoy the tasty curry. Or you can also have roti instead of naan because roti is similar to brown bread and naan is similar to white bread
Curry can consist of basically anything. You can have an asparagus curry or roast duck curry, chicken, potato and many other curries. You can even have oyster curry.
Curry is a combination of foods and spices. It brings out all the mouthwatering flavours of different types of food and spices. A simple curry can consist of only three spices. The most famous found in most curry powders are turmeric, coriander, and cumin. These spices are also used in herbal medicines in the countryside of India. Some even consider it as a natural anti-biotic. So if you don’t want to eat an apple a day to keep the doctor away, I say eat some curry!
Many food tasting experts are able to tell what a certain type of curry contains just after having a spoonful of some. With most foods, its either that you know or you don’t know how to make it. Take an apple pie for instance. You can use cranberries to make an apple pie can you? But the art of curry making never seems to have an end point. And that is what I like about curry making. Anyone, and I mean anyone can cook curry and be assured to have a mouth watering meal afterwards. After visiting my grandmother last month. I couldn’t stop eating all that beautiful curry she made. She is a very jolly person and her cooking reflects that. The aroma of her food makes one’s mouth water. She just had her own way of tossing in a couple of vegetables in, but still I could taste each one of them during the meal time. And she made whatever I wanted to eat. It was not like my mother’s rule of: “Take it or leave it.”
With the hard and fast life that we all have today, how could we all possibly make curry in good time? The answer is, curry powder. The different curry powders are often contain: turmeric, (which is used to give the food a bright yellow colour), cumin (used to give a sharp tingling taste in foods), fenugreek (which has a bitter taste), cardamom, poppy seeds and nutmeg (used to sweeten dishes) and coriander (It gives the gravy a thick consistency and a subtle but earthy flavor. It is also a part of garam masala.Masala refers to spices, and this is the name given to the thick and pasty sauce based on a combination of spices with ghee (clarified butter), butter, palm oil or coconut milk.
“Necessity is the mother of invention.” With the “invention” all ready being made, let’s go out and eat some curry!