What can replace curry powder with?

Question

I have a recipe that calls for curry powder, but don't have any on hand and couldn't find any in the store. What can I use in place of that? The other spices are onion powder, dry mustard, salt garlic powder paprika and ground red peper. Help!!!

Answer 1

Turmeric, cumin and coriander should do it!

Answer 2

Curry powder is a mixture of turmeric and garam marsala (which is itself a rather variable mixture but generally invovles cumin).

According to the instructor of a class I recently took, the turmeric is mainly for colour. I have a package of garam marsala in the kitchen but the ingredients are pictured without being listed. Of the ones I can recognize, it looks like cumin, ginger, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, bay leaf, paprika, and a couple of other things I can't identify from the photo.

Answer 3

I'd say it depends on the recipe, but I would go with a blend of other spices that usually compliment curry like cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, pepper and cilantro. Those things usually go well in curry dishes, but you really can't replace actual curry in my opinion. It's too unique and the flavor of the dish will be altered. Maybe you'll create a new dish from it!

Answer 4

"Tara" is right. Since curry powder is a mixture of spices (there is no such thing as a curry tree), you can come up with your own blend, but corriander, tumeric and cumin should be part of the mix.

When Craig Claiborne was Food Editor of the NY Times, he wrote about a reader who was furious with him for giving a curry recipe that didn't list "curry powder" in the ingredients. Duh!

Answer 5

"Most recipes and producers of curry powder usually include coriander, turmeric, cumin, and fenugreek in their blends. Depending on the recipe, additional ingredients such as ginger, garlic, fennel seed, clove, mustard seed, green cardamom, black cardamom, nutmeg, red pepper, cinnamon and black pepper may also be added."

Answer 6

I would try it with the ginger powder,, or fresh if you have it