Curry Powder: The Kitchen Sink Spice Blend

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May  9, 2012
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Curry powder, involving a myriad of complex South Asian spices, has been called the kitchen sink mix of spices. The blend always tends to be the focus of a curry dish – warm, intensely spiced, and with a heavy dose of heat. For that reason, I might call it the hired help of cooking: it does most, if not all, of the work for you. Let the spices do the work for you in this recipe from Rice & Curry, S.H. Fernando Jr.’s new cookbook.

Serious Eats offers up the lightly spicy chicken curry recipe, which, in the world of Sri Lankan cooking, is a great place to start. It even includes instructions for making your own curry. If grinding your own roasted spice blends isn’t on your usual Wednesday night agenda, though, they also provide faster solutions. (Read: store-bought, judgment free.)

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And, if spicy, exotic curries aren’t enough incentive for you, Serious Eats is also giving away a few copies of Rice & Curry. Go ahead, go win books. (And make curries.)

S. H. Fernando Jr.'s Sri Lankan Chicken Curry from Serious Eats

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AntoniaJames
AntoniaJames May 9, 2012
Perfect timing! I've been playing with different combinations when blending my own lately, when I don't have any of the spice mixture from Merrill's Saag Paneer on hand and fresh. Can't wait to try this one. It looks so good!! ;o)
 
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cassiem May 9, 2012
Mastering the art of the curry has always been a big goal of mine! Ahhh, I've always wanted to just find somebody's mom to teach me, or something, but alas. I DID bring back some spices from a recent trip to Thailand, though (I call them Aspirational Spices or Hopeful Spices, because I bought them to encourage me to finally make things like curries.)