babaliaris
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I've been all over the internet lately watching Japanese curry videos and recipes and every single one of them is different. So I'm overwhelmed. I guess curry is a creative dish that you build upon it. I would like to discuss the basics of a curry dish as well as the technical stuff of cooking each ingredient. Also, we need to take into account that I live in Greece, so no fancy Asian ingredients. I can definitely find soy sauce, garlic, ginger, sesame oil, curry powder. Let's start.
Dish type:
From what I understand, curry is a stew dish. Here in Greece, we have a lot of traditional stew dishes like bean-soup-fasolada, green-beans-fasolakia, Greek lentil soup, etc that are stews dishes that can be either soups or not (allowing water to vaporize) depending on your taste. So the process of cooking curry must be similar.
Basic Traditional Ingredients:
From searching the internet I found that the basic ingredients are: onions, carrots, potatoes, and beef (and curry roux which I'm never going to find in Greece).
Seasoning:
Ginger, garlic, and for saltiness I'm not sure... Do they use soy sauce or salt?
Sauce:
Now this is the tricky part that most people do differently. Some use tomatoes, others might use grinded vegetables like pumpkins and some make the sauce in a similar process like pastitsio besamel (butter, maybe milk, curry powder, and flour or cornflour to bind it).
I would like to make a curry dish that has a thick sauce so the sauce that uses butter and cornflour seems the best match. Can you guys help me with some recipes?
The following looks a lot like the one that I'm trying to make, but I can't find any recipes that do not involve curry roux since I can't find that in Greece.
Also, the following youtuber seems to have the best recipe for making curry from scratch, but he uses some spices that I don't even know and probably won't find in a Greek store. Also, I would like to avoid making the curry roux separately and if it is possible make it directly into the stew.
If we can keep it as traditional as possible that would be nice. Maybe some of you are Japanese and can share your mom's recipe :P (As long as I can find the ingredients :P)
Dish type:
From what I understand, curry is a stew dish. Here in Greece, we have a lot of traditional stew dishes like bean-soup-fasolada, green-beans-fasolakia, Greek lentil soup, etc that are stews dishes that can be either soups or not (allowing water to vaporize) depending on your taste. So the process of cooking curry must be similar.
Basic Traditional Ingredients:
From searching the internet I found that the basic ingredients are: onions, carrots, potatoes, and beef (and curry roux which I'm never going to find in Greece).
Seasoning:
Ginger, garlic, and for saltiness I'm not sure... Do they use soy sauce or salt?
Sauce:
Now this is the tricky part that most people do differently. Some use tomatoes, others might use grinded vegetables like pumpkins and some make the sauce in a similar process like pastitsio besamel (butter, maybe milk, curry powder, and flour or cornflour to bind it).
I would like to make a curry dish that has a thick sauce so the sauce that uses butter and cornflour seems the best match. Can you guys help me with some recipes?
The following looks a lot like the one that I'm trying to make, but I can't find any recipes that do not involve curry roux since I can't find that in Greece.
Also, the following youtuber seems to have the best recipe for making curry from scratch, but he uses some spices that I don't even know and probably won't find in a Greek store. Also, I would like to avoid making the curry roux separately and if it is possible make it directly into the stew.
If we can keep it as traditional as possible that would be nice. Maybe some of you are Japanese and can share your mom's recipe :P (As long as I can find the ingredients :P)
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