curry is kind of an interesting thing. It is specifically nothing. If I said, ‘we made curry’ that would be something different to every person. As far as I can say, curry generally speaking is heavily spiced, hopefully heavily flavored and filled with interesting bits and pieces.
Z was in San Francisco for a conference recently and in their daily walk between hotel and conference center passed an Indian restauarant. The scent was enticing enough that they stopped there for dinner one night. Z had a butter chicken that was so spectacular he was driven to try to recreate it at home. So, he tried a random butter chicken off the internet recipe. We had to turn up cardamom pods and garam masala. It is vaguely a stewed chicken with butter and some tomato passata with a pile of spices. For reasons we don’t understand it didn’t turn out to be a particularly flavorful recipe. Too much tomato and no warm heat. It was filling served on jasmine rice but not exciting. We will try again.
My Urban Pantry 