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Quick curry base
curry-base-basic · curry · Indian
About
A teaching curry sauce base: aromatics, spices, and a simmered liquid body that dishes finish with protein or vegetables. It is intentionally general, not a single regional curry.
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Curry as a colonial-era English category covers many distinct South Asian and Southeast Asian sauces. This node is a teaching umbrella, not an authentic regional paste.
Sources
- General curry-sauce teaching (umbrella category)
Skill ladder
- L1 Quick curry base · this page
- L2 Onion-tomato curry base
- L3 Restaurant curry base
Uses
- Diced onion 150 g
- Minced garlic 15 g
- Fresh ginger 15 g
- Garam masala blend 8 g
- Ghee 30 g
- Diced tomato 100 g
Preparations used
Used in
- Aloo gobi dish
- Butter chicken dish
- Chana masala dish
- Advanced Chana masala dish
- Classic Chana masala dish
- Chicken curry dish
- Chicken tikka masala dish
- Advanced Chicken tikka masala dish
- Classic Chicken tikka masala dish
- Coconut chickpea curry dish
- Restaurant curry plate dish
- Doubles dish
- Advanced Doubles dish
- Classic Doubles dish
- Palak paneer dish
- Advanced Palak paneer dish
- Classic Palak paneer dish
- Thali raita dish
- Chicken roti dish
- Advanced Chicken roti dish
- Classic Chicken roti dish
- Simple vegetable biryani dish
- Advanced Simple vegetable biryani dish
- Classic Simple vegetable biryani dish
Similar in this layer
- Restaurant curry base 0.94
- Onion-tomato curry base 0.94
- Mexican sofrito base 0.65
- Khoresh base 0.57
- Criollo sofrito 0.53
- Advanced feijoada base 0.50
- Classic feijoada base 0.50
- Berbere cooking paste 0.49
Full raw-ingredient roll-up
Secondary view: every leaf ingredient with its path.
- 150.0 g Yellow onionpath curry-base-basic → diced-onion → yellow-onion
- 100.0 g Tomatopath curry-base-basic → diced-tomato → tomato
- 30.0 g Unsalted butterpath curry-base-basic → ghee → ghee-prep → browned-butter → unsalted-butter
- 15.0 g Fresh gingerpath curry-base-basic → ginger
- 15.0 g Garlicpath curry-base-basic → minced-garlic → garlic
- 2.5 g Coriander seedpath curry-base-basic → garam-masala-blend → toasted-coriander-seed → coriander-seed
- 2.5 g Cumin seedpath curry-base-basic → garam-masala-blend → toasted-cumin-seed → cumin-seed
- 1.0 g Green cardamom podspath curry-base-basic → garam-masala-blend → cardamom-pod
- 0.8 g Black pepperpath curry-base-basic → garam-masala-blend → black-pepper
- 0.8 g Ground cinnamonpath curry-base-basic → garam-masala-blend → cinnamon
- 0.5 g Clovespath curry-base-basic → garam-masala-blend → clove