If you were making curry..

[Novynu]

If you were making curry for tea, please tell me how you do it in your household!

Whether it be cheap/expensive, Jarred sauce, slow cooker , veg/no veg etc. Looking for some inspiration!

I use pataks paste not sauce.

For Thai green curry I use the paste in the big white pot that I keep in the fridge

I don't like making it from scratch because it's a Pfaff and stinks the house out

I usually do it fro scratch. It smells so aromatic, in a good way, and tastes so fresh. Nothing wrong with jarred sauce for an easy night though.

I use Gousto recipes for mild curry or korma because DD doesn’t like food that’s too spicy. Usually put green beans on the rice. I might make a biryani for dinner, OP - I would make a curry but have no cream or yoghurt - thanks for the inspiration!

I think one of the easiest to make from scratch is butter chicken.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/prawn-jalfrezi

I make this jalfrezi. It is very easy and very tasty. You can out anything in it if your don't like prawns. My DD makes it with chicken.

From scratch. Usually either a tomatoey chicken one or a prawn in coconut milk one. Both only take about 1/2hr so pretty simple.

Patak's curry paste is always in our kitchen cupboard. Jamie Oliver's "Easy Fish Curry" (on YouTube) is a regular "go to" recipe and ever popular in our house. Although fish isn't particularly cheap just now the rest of the ingredients are and it can be made from scratch in less than 20 mins. I often throw in a few prawns if we've got them in.

Apart from that I often go to one of the curry "kits" available in most supermarkets, with spices, base and main sauce, etc. All you do is add meat, veg of your choice, etc. All the flavour with none of the faff. I do occasionally do a curry from scratch - grinding fresh spices etc and there's real satisfaction and it can taste spectacular, but who has the time to do that regularly?

Just made one for the kids tonight to reheat after the after school clubs. Chicken and sweet potato cubes, Thai paste and a tin of coconut milk, jobs a goodun.

From scratch. Jars are awful.

A couple of websites I use are:

https://maunikagowardhan.co.uk/cook-in-a-curry/

https://meerasodha.com/recipes/

https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/recipes/latest-updates/

I do it from scratch. You need a lot of ingredients but once that's been sorted, they can just sit in the pantry until needed. I can make a curry now for so much cheaper than takeaway. I used to use Patak's pastes but they all kind of taste the same in the end....

We make it from scratch. No set recipe, but usually I’ll make a curry powder using various spices in a large batch to use again next time with a base of onion, garlic and ginger.

I really like berbere spice mix. I use that with onion, garlic, blended tinned tomatoes, fresh corriander, spinch, then something like lentils, chickpeas, paneer and pea.

Roast a cauliflower on the side in turmeric.

Serve with wraps and mint yoghurt.

I put my spices dry in a drying pan - cumin, coriander, cinnamon, Garam masala, curry powder, turmeric, cardamom and some nigella seed usually - and toast them a bit. Then I dump them out in a bowl and fry garlic, onion, ginger and chillies until all soft and golden. Throw my chicken and any veggies in the pan to seal the chicken, then I add pasatta and simmer for 20 mins. I might add ground almonds/yogurt/coconut milk at the end.

forgot to say - the spices go back in for the simmering!

From scratch. Once you have all the spices in the cupboard it’s just as easy as a paste.

Always always from scratch and doesn’t take long

oil - add cumin seeds and mustard seeds
2 onions cook down on a low heat / must do this slowly don’t burn - get them nicely cooked and brown
add garlic about 5 cloves cook
thumb size of grated ginger - cook
add couple of teaspoons of tumeric and cook
add 3/4 tin of tomatoes ans cook til the oil separates
add a couple of fresh green chillis /chopped or slitted
cook
add your veg /meat
cook
add salt and dried fenugreek
then at the end stir in garam masala
right before serving add fresh coriander

For a quick meal I normally just use a Jamie Oliver curry paste but I’ve just found Al’s Kirchen on YouTube. Made his 30 min chicken pathia last week and it was delicious and easy! I may never buy a curry paste again.

Usually from scratch, but I like the Spice Taylor packets which come with separate spices & sauce.

I can do it from scratch, usually a Jamie Oliver recipe but I am currently loving The Spice Tailor kits, so easy.

Put star anise in it. It makes all the difference.

From scratch here, too. As PP say, once you’ve got the spices it isn’t any more time consuming really.

I mostly make curry from scratch. There are a lot of bad curry recipes out there, so I tend to stick to recipes from food writers I know are consistently good. I love Meera Sodha and Monica Halder. Some of my favourite recipes are:
Mum’s chicken curry - my favourite basic curry template. Endlessly adaptable - I don’t eat meat and have made so many vegetable or chickpea variations of it.
Butter paneer masala - rich and delicious, and quite easy to make. Definitely an indulgence but so good.
Cauliflower korma - this is just lovely, the roasted cauliflower is such a delicious ingredient that I never use raw cauliflower in curries any more. The sauce is also rich, but it’s tempered by the tang from the yogurt.
Tadka dal - my go to dal. It’s so simple and reliable. Nothing is more comforting to me than a bowl of dal and rice.

I make these 3 different curries often

I use Mayflower curry sauce and mix with coconut milk and lightly fried vegetables/chicken that I've done beforehand with some chilli, garam masala and some sugar.

I use an anjum Anand recipe, I love most of her recipes.but This is my favourite

And my really lazy one is the sharwoods tikka masala sauce with some tablespoons of pataks balti paste with boneless chicken thighs with some spices and sugar added.

usually with ginger, garlic onion and a mix of spices.

sometimes paneer/spinach
sometimes chicken
sometimes cauliflower and chickpea
often a daal.

occasionally a slow cooked beef coconut thingy.

Very occasionally pastes, but usually from scratch.

From scratch but haven't made it for ages.

Veg curry - fry onions until soft, mix half a cup of water with curry powder and some salt, add to onions for a minute. Add tinned tomatoes/vegetables/garlic/ginger and leave to cook for a while.