Slimming worlds chip shop style curry sauce where did I go wrong?

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It just tasted horrible hardly any flavor the texture was also horrible and Lumpy I blended I followed the recipe down to the T, just wast for me neither I nor my husband could eat it we were in too big a rush so we had to grab something from the co op quickly and I got the salmon and prawn sushi combo which I think it’s 3.5 syns and I had a 260g pack of strawberries as well (yes I ate the whole pack)

What were you eating it with?

Surely you werent just eating curry sauce on its own and then having gone wrong you had to go out quickly to get a replacement meal?

I dont get it?

https://www.slimmingworld.co.uk/recipes/chip-shop-curry-sauce

Is it this recipe OP?

Sounds repulsive with the marmite and the yoghurt. I would have said, leave out the marmite and the yoghurt.

@soupfiend with rice yes that’s the one with the marmite but it tasted horrible even before I used the marmite or yoghurt?? Just had something bad about it I couldn’t put my finger why I didn’t like it but it had a weird after taste to it and I tried adding more things to fix it and it just kept getting worse and worse

I find a lot of sauces with yogurt just taste of yogurt really. Better to have a measured amount of a nicer one and syn it.

It calls for chinese 5 spice, did you double check which one you reached for?

For some reason, I keep reaching for all spice when I need 5 spice and also vice versa. Im destined for disaster at some point

@soupfiend yes used the Chinese 5 spice maybe it was the brand?? Used Asda brand

I suggest you give that a wide berth and if you dont have a whole heap of spices at home, just go buy Mayflower curry powder - its a SYN a tablespoon of dry

If you have a blender and a selection of spices, make your own, make a batch and freeze it

An indian curry sauce is just a gravy made from onions and spices. You can follow any recipe - just avoid the oil. True curry gravy does need well browned onions which is hard to replicate, you wont get perfection, but you will get good enough. The recipe will say - cook onions down in vast amounts of Ghee - my work around is - slice the onions, add a wee dash of water, cover and microwave till soft then put them in a saucepan and spray with oil and keep stirring, spray with a bit more oil if needed, but keep going till they colour. Normal oil in a spray bottle - seriously 10 - 15 sprays and you havent used a teaspoon. Add your spices, garlic and ginger, cook out, add your water and blend. The more onions, the thicker the gravy

Same with chips to pour that gravy over. Cut your chips, soak in cold water for 20 mins, drain, then cling film over, pop a wee hole - 4 or five mins in the micro, unwrap, spray and toss them around to make sure they are coated and air fry -

Wouldnt use more then 2 syns for a really naughty but I want it meal and I use my HEA as the cheese . Thats the kind of meal I make for saturday night fake - away , not every night, just a I really really really want to feel Im not on a diet but dont want the Syns cos Ill be having a drink :)

Yep this is the answer. Delicious!

True curry gravy does need well browned onions which is hard to replicate, you wont get perfection, but you will get good enough.

Or roast them in the oven sprayed with Frylight.

@suki1964 i was looking at the mayflower curry powder but wasn’t sure I usually make a big pot of curry like a stew type thing and add potatoes, onions and carrots and my meat as well as mushrooms and whatever else I have on hand I usually make enough to feed a family of 3 of 2 days and there is usually a lot of sauce leftover but wasn’t sure if the syn value if I used an entire thing of the mayflower mix as I would use it all

227gr pack is 13 syns so if you use the whole pack then you divide by the amount of portions you get - with them all being equal. Ie dont tell yourself there were 6 portions when 4 of then were half the size of the first 2 :) Be honest else you will be eating syns left right and centre and then wondering why you havent a loss

Can you not find the books anywhere cheap or find a joining offer? From the 18th Aug they are running free joining and their usual 6 weeks for the price of five - so six weeks is 29.75, that will get you the books and the app and online membership as well as group

@suki1964 so how many syns would it be per portion? If I make a curry stew I don’t plan to give myself much sauce only what’s coating the potatoes veg and meat when I take them out but I will still count it as a full portion and syn it etc I if I join on the app will I get the same deal? I have social anxiety so reluctant to speak to someone in person etc xx

If you make 4 portions then its 3.5 a portion, You divide the quantity against the syns

So this is why I dont do syns for all day eating, for meals, scrap the processed - ie the jars and powders,the deli counters, the take aways, the ready meals, and food is 99% free which means I get to eat what I like, when I like and still loose weight

Mayflower is a processed food, it has oils and sugars and fats to give it the flavour. You will be 100% better off finding a recipe online for a curry sauce that is syn free and then you can have as much as you like, when you like

How are you about cooking from scratch? What sort of meals do you as a family enjoy? I can give more help that way then looking up what you have already eaten and telling you the syn count

For example today ( Ive a gum infection so not really wanting to eat ) I have had a slice of Nevilles ( tesco cheapest brand ) wholemeal with a lidl light triangle _ FREE

A fat free mullar light yoghurt - 1/2 syn, and added enough porridge to make up my full HEB allowence - about 20gr

And tonight I made mince , onions, carrots, celery included - 5% fat so free, with air fried spuds - free and baked beans - free. So other then a wee teaspoon of oil on the air fried spuds - shared between 4 , my food syns for the day have been possibly 1 syn. I syn and Ive not gone hungry

I really do think that getting to a group will be very helpful to you so you can learn how to do what SW call "food optimising " Getting the best from free foods to keep you full and not looking for snacks . Get to one before this week ends, which I think is Saturday and its tasters week where those of us have found free food and turned it into food we really want to eat - Ie - totally syn free curry sauce :) I will be doing a buffet next week and I will be fit to eat most, if not all of it, my guests will also fill their faces - for me it will be on plan, my friends wont have a clue

Just looking at the recipe you know it is going to be bland because it has only a small amount of curry powder and 5 spice so I don't think you have done anything wrong.

Like PP have said you can make better curries using healthy ingredients.