Delicious Curry Sauce

A Recipe and Uses

Jun 16, 2008 Nathaniel Ogden Kidd

Want a new, healthy, easy to make topping? Try this amazing curry sauce.

Based on a puree of slow-cooked onions, carrots, and apples, this curry sauce has the deep richness of a Hollandaise sauce without the fat. Gently sweet and spicy, it tastes great on just about anything. Use it as a dip with vegetables and crackers, or as a marinade.

Curry Sauce Ingredients

• 2 T butter
• 2 T cumin
• 1 T mustard seed
• 1 small onion, diced
• 2 carrots, diced
• 1 apple, diced
• 3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 inch ginger, minced
• 1 t tumric
• 2 T coriander powder
• 2 T chili powder (to taste)
• pinch of nutmeg
• 1 c. chicken bullion
• Coconut milk (or other milk product)
• Salt to taste

Making the Curry Sauce

1. Melt the butter over high heat. When butter is melted, add cumin and mustard. Cook for 30 seconds, then add onion and carrot. Reduce heat to medium and cover.
2. When onions are translucent, add the apple, garlic, and ginger. Add the spices and bullion. Cover and simmer until everything is soft.
3. Blend the mixture along with the coconut milk into a smooth puree. Add salt to taste.

Making it Your Own

This sauce is extremely flexible. The apples and carrots give it its consistence and hint of sweetness, the onion-spice combination gives it its flavor, and the milk and bullion give it its thickness and richness. Try experimenting with the kinds and proportions of spices you use to adjust this sauce to your own personal tastes.

To bring up the heat, add more chili powder and ginger. Green chilies or red pepper can also be used to give it a little more zing. The apple contributes muche of the sweetness. Experiment with different varieties of apple to get the right level of sugar. The citrus of lemon juice or orange peel can also add an plesant zest.

The milk helps to determine the consistency and flavor of the curry sauce as well. Coconut milk gives a Thai flavor, yoghurt will bring down the heat and thicken the sauce, and sour cream will make a better dip. Mayonnaise will make the sauce soft and spreadable.

There are a wide variety of curry pastes and powders available on the market today. You can use one of these to complement the spices, or in place of them, to suit your particular tastes.

Using and Storing the Curry Sauce

There are many possible creative uses of this curry sauce. Try using it as the base for a curry pizza, or as a sauce for burgers with onions and goat cheese.

Covered and refrigerated, the sauce should last for a few weeks.

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