Basic Curry Sauce

Basic curry sauce.
Okay, here’s where every curry starts. Cooking any main ingredient, whether it be lamb, chicken or whatever, in this sauce will give you an excellent curry, suitable for filling your belly and impressing your friends.

Ingredients- 1 large onion, pinch salt, pinch black pepper, tbsp vegetable oil, tsp chilli pwdr, tsp ginger pwdr, tsp garlic pwdr, tsp turmeric, 2 tsps coriander powder, 2 tsps cumin pwdr, tsp sugar, dash lemon juice, can of chopped tomatoes.

Method- Chop the onion very finely and fry slowly in the veg oil until it begins to mush. Addthe spices, salt and sugar and stir until no powdery residue remains. If there isn’t enough liquid to absorb all the spices youcan add a little more veg oil or some water. You now have a basic curry paste. Add the lemon juice and the tomatoes and stir thoroughly. You now have a basic curry sauce. If you want it smoother, whizz it through the blender.

After cooking your main ingredient in this sauce you can add a freshly chopped chilli pepper, a chopped clove of garlic and a tsp of grated ginger. Ths will bring those flavours to the fore.

This amount of sauce should be enough for a curry for 2.