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Recipe Basic Curry Sauce (Main Dish)
Home Cooking Recipes
Required Ingredients:
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 1 tablespoon margarine
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger root
- 2 tablespoons minced garlic
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 2 tablespoons ground coriander
- 2 tablespoons ground cumin
- 1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 serrano chile peppers, seeded
- 1/2 cup fresh cilantro
- 1/2 cup yogurt, whisked until smooth
- 3 cups water
Preparing/Cooking:
- Heat oil and margarine in a small skillet or wok over medium high heat.
- Add onion and saute until very brown, 10 to 15 minutes.
- (Note: This is an important step; if onion is not cooked well, sauce will taste funny.
- )Add ginger and garlic to onion and saute for an additional 2 minutes.
- Process onion/ginger/garlic mixture in food processor until smooth.
- Do not rinse food processor.
- Place onion mixture in a large saucepan.
- Stir in the cinnamon, black pepper, coriander, cumin, turmeric and cayenne pepper and cook over low heat until mixture is thick and has the consistency of a paste.
- Puree tomatoes, chile peppers and cilantro in food processor until smooth.
- Add to onion mixture and stir well over low heat, cooking off moisture from tomatoes and cilantro.
- Add yogurt a little bit at a time, stirring constantly to avoid curdling.
- Blend the whole mixture in food processor to puree it (for a very smooth sauce).
- Return to saucepan, add water and increase heat to high; bring sauce to a rolling boil.
- Cover saucepan and boil for 3 to 5 minutes.
- Reduce heat and simmer until desired consistency is reached.
- To serve with meat, cook the meat first separately, then simmer for 5 to 10 minutes in the sauce before serving over rice or with bread.
- To serve with vegetables, steam raw veggies first 4 to 5 minutes, then simmer for 5 to 10 minutes in the sauce before serving.
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