It's pretty easy to make. Simple in Japan, actually, because you can readily find the curry sauce mix in any supermarket. I've seen them here too, even in Woolworths, but I thought it was worth a try making it from scratch. I combined recipes for the main dish (here) and curry roux (here) and did a little modifying myself.
Ingredients
250g beef chunks [You can use more here, I used 500g. I'm also sure I've used pork before.]
2 onions
2 carrots
3 potatoes
1 Tbsp oil
3 1/2 cups water (840ml). [I actually used a bit more than this, just adding water towards the end until it looked the right consistency. You don't want it too runny, but it still should be pourable.]
Optional veggies: sweet potato, parsnip, pumpkin, broccoli etc.. [I used the first two last night.]
Roux
3 Tbsp. unsalted butter
4 Tbsp. plain flour
1/2 Tbsp. curry powder [Adjust this to suit your family's taste. I put in double this and the garam masala and it was too hot.]
1/2 Tbsp. garam masala
3 Tbsp. unsalted butter
4 Tbsp. plain flour
1/2 Tbsp. curry powder [Adjust this to suit your family's taste. I put in double this and the garam masala and it was too hot.]
1/2 Tbsp. garam masala
- Cut vegetables into bite size pieces.
- Heat oil and brown meat in a pot, then take meat out.
- In the same pot, fry onions for 8 minutes. Add carrots and potatoes, then cooked meat.
- Add water to the pot/pan. After it boils reduce heat to low. Cover and cook for 30-45 minutes until the meat becomes tender.
Meanwhile, make the roux.
- Melt butter in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add flour. Stir constantly until it turns slightly brown (only a couple of minutes).
- Add spices. Cook for 30 seconds then remove from heat.
Put it all together:
- Remove meat and vegetables from heat and add curry roux. Stir well.
- Add more water if it is too thick.
- Taste it to check spiciness. Add plain yoghurt or sour cream if too spicy. Add sugar if it's too bitter.
- Serve over rice (preferably medium or short grain). Enjoy!
3 comments:
I can't believe I never tried to research this myself! I just sat here in Florida craving it from time to time! My favorite was Vermont brand so I may replace some of the water with apple juice.I recently received a gift box from my quilting Sensei that among other things contained Nori, Ocha, and home made Ume Boshi. I feel a Japanese dinner coming on! Thanks!
I only recently found out that most packages of curry roux have MSG in them, which makes this a great alternative. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
You're welcome. It was good for me to write it all out in the one place, I had two printouts that I was working between. Will definitely be making this again.
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