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feuervogel ([personal profile] feuervogel) wrote2012-10-01 06:49 pm
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Fall curry roux

It's getting cooler out, and I love a nice curry in fall. A friend shared a link to a recipe for homemade curry roux, and we tried the basic recipe once. It was fine, but I thought about the various other flavors of curry I've gotten in the boxes at the Japanese grocery store, and I decided to try something a little different.

3 Tbsp butter
1/4 c flour
1.5 Tbsp garam masala
0.5 Tbsp hot curry powder (or to taste; should add up to 2 Tbsp) [I use Sharwood's Hot.]
1 Tbsp cinnamon
1 tsp pureedpowdered ginger
1 Tbsp molasses
1 Tbsp tonkatsu sauce or ketchup

1. Melt the butter over medium low heat.
2. Mix the flour, garam masala, ginger, and cinnamon in and stir until they form a thick paste.
3. Stir in the ginger, molasses, and tonkatsu sauce, and cook until it starts to crumble. (This takes 5-10 minutes, so don't fret.) Set aside.
4. Add roux to curry as directed in the original recipe.
5. Don't forget to add some damn salt to the pot at some point.

(Edited 10/29/13)
--cook's notes: 5 cups water is too much for this amount of flour to thicken properly, but 4 cups doesn't cover the potatoes enough. May need to scale?