Prepare curry: 5 easy recipes

Nowadays, people in different countries are increasingly interested in food, typical of foreign cuisines. And our chefs wanting to diversify the menu and surprise loved ones with interesting dishes, house rolls and sushi, pizza, risotto and many other dishes. Today we will learn how to cook curry.

First of all curry is synonymous with Indian cuisine, however popular this dish in other countries, for example, in Thailand, and although everywhere there are some features of its preparation, all variants of this dish is similar to a specific set of spices and some features of the preparation.

In European cuisine called term curry any dishes that were cooked with curry. What, in General, is consistent with the fact that from the point of view of the cooking is more correct to talk about curry not like about a particular dish, and as a specific category of food.

Thus, curry is a dish that is prepared from various ingredients (meat, poultry, legumes, vegetables, fish and so on), but always with curry powder. This powder is a ready-made blend of spices for cooking curry. Enter into its composition may the root of the turmeric, coriander, red, allspice and black pepper, cumin, cardamom, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, cinnamon, mustard, garlic, salt, fenugreek and other spices. As in the case of dish, curry powder can be prepared from different herbs and spices depending on the capabilities and preferences of the cook.

For any curry its distinctive spicy rich flavor that is associated primarily with the history of its appearance: hot Indian people had to find ways to preserve meat, fish and poultry from spoilage and bacteria. Emerging from the unpleasant smell of the Indians tried to kill with spices, they also help kill bacteria and came up with curry.

Recipes for curry

Today recipes curry invented many, including the European chefs who relished the idea of using a spicy set of spice called curry, cooking meals from a variety of products. There are as complicated recipes with not very available ingredients such as coconut milk, canned bamboo, etc. and is quite simple, requiring only the curry powder and very loving couple products. We talk, of course, simple, and available to us the recipes.

The first recipe: curry Rice with sweet peppers and mushrooms

You will need: 100g rice 1 bell pepper, 2 tsp. curry powder, mushrooms to taste, vegetable oil, salt.

How to cook curry rice with sweet peppers and mushrooms. Boil the rice until tender, adding the curry powder. Mushrooms to prepare and oil to fry sliced arbitrary, but small, sweet pepper, fry for 5 minutes, put the rice and fry for 5 minutes, salt all to taste and serve.

As you can see, cooking curry can be ridiculously simple, and even if you have never tried to cook such dishes, the first time can be handled without problems. For this dish, you can add chicken or Turkey breast, or the meat will be more interesting and better fed. And you can make curry with rabbit - the dish is quite unusual and very tasty.

The second recipe: Recipe curry rabbit with mushrooms and nuts

You will need: 1 medium-sized rabbit, 400g fresh mushrooms, 100 g sour cream, 2 onions, 2 tablespoons of the parsley and dill and chopped walnuts, curry powder, pepper, salt, broth or water.

How to cook curry rabbit with mushrooms. Cut the rabbit into pieces, RUB with pepper and salt, fry in butter until taromenane, put in a saucepan. Add to the pot of broth or water - the liquid should just cover the rabbit pieces, turn on low heat. Cut the mushrooms into slices, chop the onion and fry it in butter until taromenane, add the mushrooms, put all of 5 minutes To finish the rabbit meat, add mushrooms, onions and sour cream, stir, vsypav curry powder, and cook everything for another 5 minutes Served curry rabbit with mushrooms with a side dish of rice, sprinkled with nuts.

Curry, of course, can be vegetarian - cooked even without meat, fish and other animal products.

The third recipe: Vegetarian curry of potatoes and eggplant

You will need: 4 eggplant and garlic cloves, 3 potatoes, 2 tomatoes, a third of a Cup of vegetable oil, 1 onion, 1 tsp. cumin/Jeera, 0.5 tsp. ground coriander and turmeric 1/3 teaspoon of powder chili, fresh cilantro, salt.

How to make vegetarian curry. Peel eggplant, cut into polukrugom, cubes, slice the potatoes, half-rings - bow. Heat the oil in a pan, put the onion until transparent to extinguish, put chopped diced tomatoes, stir, pour in 2 minutes all the spices, salt and stir. Put in a pan of eggplant and garlic, pour one-third Cup of water, stir 5 min to put on low heat, covered, put the chopped cilantro and potatoes, put out until it is ready, adding the necessary water. Before serving curry can be slightly patoloji to the potato has lost his form. In India, this curry is served with bread or boiled rice.

The fourth recipe: Curry with chicken or Turkey

You will need: 600g Turkey breast, 300g canned tomatoes, 200g basmati rice 150ml broth, 50g almonds and sweet chili sauce, 1 onion and clove of garlic, 4 tablespoons of sunflower oil, curry powder, black pepper, salt.

How to cook curry chicken or Turkey. In salted water to boil the rice. Small cubes cut into fillets poultry, finely chop the onion and garlic. Put the meat in a pan with heated oil (2 tbsp), fry, remove from the pan. Put the garlic and onions, fry, add sliced tomatoes, curry powder, put 5 min, pour the broth, put another 3 min, put fried poultry, put another 5 minutes to Put in curry, sweet chili sauce, salt, season to taste with pepper and curry. Serve with rice.

Curry can be prepared, as already noted, from a wide variety of foods. If you love seafood, then the following recipe might be useful to you.

Recipe five: Curry with shrimp

You will need: 450g peeled shrimp, 250g zucchini, ml heavy cream, 2 cloves of garlic minced, 2 tbsp. chopped cilantro and margarine/butter, 2 tsp. finely chopped ginger and curry powder, 0.5 teaspoon of ground coriander and cumin ? tsp. black pepper, salt.

How to cook curry with shrimp. Over medium heat in a saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter, put the chopped garlic, ginger, curry powder, coriander and cumin, to extinguish a minute, add the cream and add ? tsp. salt, increase the heat, 5 min to boil until thick. Finely chop the zucchini in a pan, melt another tablespoon of oil, put the zucchini and 3 min to put out to taromenane, put to him the shrimp, add 0.5 teaspoon of salt, pepper, continue cooking 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Shrimp with zucchini in the pan, sprinkle with cilantro and stir. Serve this curry on a hot boiled rice.

Surprise so flavorful and delicious dish like curry your household, and they will ask you to prepare it again!