does anyone know or have any simple but good, tasty recipes and methods to make curries or sauces?

Question

or maybe even reccommend a good all curries and sauces recipe book?

Answer 1

CHICKEN MARSALA - In first frying pan, Cut boneless chicken into chunks or strips, coat with flour and cook in butter until all sides just start to brown, set aside. In second frying pan, melt butter and add fresh sliced mushrooms (lots) and cook until they just start to soften, add generous amount of Marsala wine and a couple of finely diced garlic cloves and cook for three minutes. Add chicken from first pan and cook until sauce thickens (flour from chicken will thicken sauce), Add a small spritz more Marsala wine ( to refresh Marsala wine flavor) and serve immediately.

Answer 2

Curries can be simply made by mixing cumin, coriander and turmeric together. Fry them in a little oil and then coat your preferred meat. This is the basis of a simple Currie. Choose which base you would like for the sauce, tomatoes is always good, cook this up with the meat and then finally flavour with Gram Masala. If you want it richer, just add a little cream. Hotter, add some chili powder.
Play about with it. The good thing is, it will taste different each time.

To make a simple sauce, use 3/4 oz of corn flour to a pint of milk.
Mix a little of the cold milk with the corn flour. Boil the rest and then add the corn flour mixture and stir. The corn flour does not thicken until you add it to the milk, so it stops the sauce being lumpy. If you use this as a base, you can add anything to it.
Cheese, onions cooked with a little brown sugar to caramelise them or mushrooms with a little garlic and white wine. Whatever you want.

Answer 3

Try frying onions and chicken in oil add a spoonful of 'pataks' curry paste of your choice i.e. madras, rogan gosh, etc. . Let it mix and cook together for at least 5+ Min's. Add a tin of chopped tomatoes, a little water and a stock cube (knorr, if possible) Reduce and thicken if necessary. Put in oven and let it cook for 30+ Min's. This is a good 'home cooked curry recipe' it is not designed to be anything like an Indian restaurant meal.

Answer 4

ok here goes, this one is my boyfriends own recipe but it taste delicious :- Serves 2
Ingredients:-

1/4 Jar of Pitats Korma Curry Paste (got to be pitats, it's the best)
1/4 Jar of Pitats Brinjal Pickle
1 Large Onion (diced)
1 Tin of Plum Tomatoes
1/2 Tin of Pineapple Chunks / Rings
2 Breast of Chicken (diced, not too small)
1/2 Green Chili Pepper (optional), you can add this to make it abit hotter but is equally good without.

Add the Korma paste, Brinjal Pickle, Onion, Tomatoes, and Pineapple to a blender, blend until turn into sauce. (add chili at this point too)

Add chicken to a large bowl (casserole dish) and proceed to pour the sauce over, place lid on bowl and cook in microwave for about 10Min's or until boiling, on high.

When it is boiling, remove from microwave, stir and proceed to cook for a further 1 hour on medium/low heat.

Serve with rice!!

This dish is GREAT, it's really tasty, please do try it. My boyfriend cooked it for over 40 people at a wedding and everyone loved it!

Goodluck!

p.s. Pitats may be spelt Pitaks lol

Answer 5

very easy tomato sauce, good base sauce for pasta, lasagna, or any tomato based dish ; ) cheaper and tastier than any you can buy

4 cans of chopped plum tomatoes (yes i cheat i use cans but feel free to peel tomatoes if you like), put them in a large pan over a medium heat
add salt and pepper, or crushed garlic..any spices of your choosing really
2-3oz of butter, (substitute olive oil if need be)
peel an onion, chop it in half and stick it in the pan

put the lid on, and leave it for an hour simmering slowly, go relax..stir it now and then

after that, scoop out the onion halves, add more butter if you like...if you are using fresh herbs rather than dried ones add them now, turn off the heat and leave your sauce to stand for 5 minutes

then either serve it or chill it for your recipe.

the quantities i gave you will make a good amount of sauce suitable for a dish that will easily feed 4-6 people and it's delicious.

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Answer 6

I often make this for either chicken or pork. It would work on lamb as well. Just vary the ingredients to what you have in the cupboard. A food processor is needed. 4 cloves garlic, thumb size knob ginger, 4 tbs olive oil, 2 tbs honey(or marmalade) juice and zest 1 lemon or 2 limes.1 tbs Thai fish sauce.Blitz together and brush over meat. Cook in oven or bbq.It is not a fixed recipe, just use what you have. Add tom puree, sugar and vinegar plus chinese 5 spice for a chinese style.Experiment having fun.

Answer 7

Sweet and Sour Chicken balti - I have converted all my family and friends, it's gorgeous and really easy to make from scratch.

4 tablespoons oil
2 tablespoons mango chutney
2 tablespoons garam masala
3 tablespoons tomato puree
2 tablespoons greek style yoghurt
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar
1 chicken breast per person (diced)
Water
1/2 cup basmati rice per person

To make the sauce:
Start gently frying the diced chicken in the oil until it is sealed.
Blend the tomato puree, yoghurt, garam masala, mango chutney, salt and sugar together to make a sauce. Taste it - you can add more spice / tomato to suit.
Add the sauce to the chicken and simmer on a low heat. Add water to thicken the sauce where necessary.
Cook until the sauce is heated through and at a thickness you like.
You can also add coriander and a tiny bit of single light cream at the end if you want to.

To make the rice:
Boil the rice on a low heat in double the amount of water (e.g. if you've used 2 cups of rice, boil it in 4 cups of water) until the rice is soft and fluffy

This is seriously tasty, and so easy to cook even I can do it. You can add chilli to it if you like a bit of extra spice!!

Enjoy...

Answer 8

Thai green curry.
Buy a jar of green thai curry paste, chicken, lemon grass, limeleaves, half a lime (optional), fish sauce, coconut milk (1 tin or replace half the tin with milk for lower fat option) and onion.

Fry onion, add chicken, cook for a bit. Add curry paste, lemon grass and limeleaves and lime, cook for a bit. Add coconut milk, cook for a bit. Near the end add some fish suace.

Answer 9

usual start, fry 2-4 thinly sliced onions in ghee or peanut oil, add curry spice paste, fry till fragrant, add moisture-one of the following or a combination of coconut milk/cream, crushed tomatoes, chicken or vegetable stock, then add curry ingredients, like, a bunch of vegetables for veg curry, some raw bite sized chicken or fish or prawns, diced sealed lamb, beef or pork, simmer till meat or veggies are tender, serve with steamed rice and condiments like pappadums, raita, tomato salad, mango chutney, roti bread, fresh chilli sambal, yoghurt lassi, enjoy, xox

Answer 10

Darling make urself a favour and by Uncle Ben's ready made sauces. making curry urself is not worth the hassle