If you read my article, Curry - A Journey, published on the Curry page of this site, you will know that my first experience of the dish was the typical variety that British people cooked and ate while living abroad a few decades ago. You will also know that I found a “real” Indian restaurant and decided that since I could not afford to eat that much, I had to learn to cook it myself.
My first place, at the time, was a local bookstore, where the selection of books on Indian cuisine was somewhat limited. However, I was lucky enough to find a book called Maduro, Jeffrey's Indian Cookery - which I found. It is written in simple language, but there is a lovely descriptive text and recommendations for what to do with it, it was what I had always been looking for.
There was a stumbling block, however, which was an endless list of spices, spices and seasonings in front of the book. I didn't know where to start - I had heard about many of them, watching a few TV shows about Indian cooking but, "help" I thought, buying a lot of them all at once would cost a lot of money. ”. If you feel the same way, do not panic. Check in your store closet. You probably already have some things you will need. For example, look for black peppercorns, bay leaves, chili powder if you are already a fan of chili con carer, ground ginger, nutmeg, cloves and cinnamon when baking cakes or apple pies. You will probably find mustard seeds when you make your piling. And sesame seeds when you make rolls or cook Chinese food. That leaves only a few basic ingredients from a variety of Indian recipes - cumin, coriander, turmeric and cardamom. You usually need ground cumin and coriander, but if you buy all the spices, you can grind them as needed (and they last that long).
Another thing I did was choose a simple recipe to start with, I just bought the spices I needed for that. The next time I wanted to cook Indian food, I chose another recipe with the same ingredients, I just had to buy a few more. I quickly built a whole wardrobe for the things I needed it didn’t have such a big impact on my wallet.
Then there was nothing stopping me - I already memorized some recipes, you can do the same if you like.
You do not need special Indian cooking equipment, although I would not be without my electric coffee grinder (spice grinding) and it is good (but not necessary) to have traditional dishes in which to serve your food. Other than that, you need a little patience it is fun to cook with a friend you can share chopping and grinding or have someone read the recipe step by step you don’t mess in.
The flavors are beautiful, the curry night is really fun, so go ahead and try it. Please review and publish my article at is soon is positing.
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