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- Simple Curry
- Category: Poultry: Chicken, duck, goose, turkey, etc...
- Posted by: Hawk Eye
- Quantity:
-
- Ingredients:
- 6 0z or more of your 1 cup (+ - ) heavy or
- favorite meat or poultry. I whipping cream. (Very likely
- generally use Chicken. more like 1-1/2 or 2 )
- 1 good squirt either white Decent Curry powder
- wine or lemon juice. Just
- splash it in.
- 1 - 3 tbsp Sour Cream. Butter
-
- Instructions:
- Brown your meat of choice in the butter- or margarine, come
- to think of it. Get it very brown indeed. Lots of bits
- floating about in the pan. Like that.
- deglaze the pan with the squirt of wine or lemon juice. Save
- the bottle, you'll need another squirt. ( Unsanitary or not,
- you might as well just splash a bit in from the glass, if
- you're drinking, and the dinner guest is a good friend. )
- mix the cream, sour cream and Curry together. Whisk nicely,
- as the cream is rather bashful about mixing with the sour
- cream. Add another splash or wine or lemon juice to the
- mixture. Now add Curry. This is a tricky point: I add enough
- to turn the resultant mixture a nice medium yellow. This
- depends on taste, I suppose, but a few points to consider..
- One, the sauce is going to darken and strengthen as it
- cooks.. It'll taste a bit harsher, when done, than it will
- at this stage. Two, in my own experience, it really is
- almost impossible to add so much that people grow ill. Be
- brave! try about two tbsp or so... ( Just as a starting
- point. The mixture should be creamy, yellow, and flecked
- with curry. Now dump it into the pan with the meat. Heat at
- high, stirring once and a while, until the cream reduces and
- the sauce thickens. Cream is a great deal sturdier than most
- people think. It can reduce on fairly high heat beautifully,
- and it really doesn't need all that much attention. Also, if
- the sauce does happen to break.. Stir in more cream. Unless
- it's severely scorched, it ought to come back well. The
- sauce is done when it's thick and coats the meat- or a spoon-
- tightly. ( Or, when given a brisk stir, the pan can be seen
- behind the whisk. ) It should be a dark golden yellow, with
- the part just touching the rim of the pan slightly darker.
- This is a SINGLE SERVING recipe. I have no earthly idea as
- to the caloric content. Tastes good, goes together in a
- slam, and is able to hold well for a considerable amount of
- time.. If need be.
-
- Comments:
- I saw a few references to Curry, while I was paging through
- here, as well as to Buffalo wings. I've been a professional
- cook and baker for going on a decade now- first 'cause I
- needed a job, finally because I like doing it- and I'd like
- to dump a few recipes. Before I do that, though, an
- explanation. As is this case with many cooks and Chefs.. I
- rarely ever use graduated measuring utensils. The Chef under
- whom I trained (Freddy Hiltbrunner, "Le Cafe de Paris", the
- only 4 star restaurant in Nebrasksa ) never did.. And over
- the years, I've sort of fallen into the habit. At this
- point, I just sort of know what a teaspoon is, and so forth.
- The point is, the measurements I give are going to be a
- little.. Odd. Especially to those of you who are used
- to/prefer nice precise terms. The recipes work You may,
- however, have to do a wee bit of fiddling with them.
-