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Curry

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Curry
Indian curries
Place of originIndian subcontinent
Region or stateWorldwide
Main ingredientsMeat or vegetables, oil or ghee, spices

Curry is a dish with a sauce seasoned with spices, mainly associated with South Asian cuisine.[1][2] It is not to be confused with leaves from the curry tree, though some curries do include curry leaves.[3][4][5] Curry is also found in the native cuisines of many South East Asian and East Asian countries due to ancient contact with South Asia.[6]

There are many varieties of curry. The choice of spices for each dish in traditional cuisine depends on regional cultural tradition and personal preferences. Such dishes have names that refer to their ingredients, spicing, and cooking methods.[7] Outside the Indian subcontinent, a curry is a dish from Southeast Asia which uses coconut milk or spice pastes, commonly eaten over rice.[6] Curries may contain fish, meat, poultry, or shellfish, either alone or in combination with vegetables. Others are vegetarian. Dry curries are cooked using small amounts of liquid, which is allowed to evaporate, leaving the other ingredients coated with the spice mixture. Wet curries contain significant amounts of sauce or gravy based on broth, coconut cream or coconut milk, dairy cream or yogurt, or legume purée, sautéed crushed onion, or tomato purée.

Curry powder, a commercially prepared mixture of spices marketed in the West, was first exported to Britain in the 18th century when Indian merchants sold a concoction of spices, similar to garam masala, to the British East India Company returning to Britain.

  1. ^ "Curry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Archived from the original on 13 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  2. ^ "Definition of Curry". Merriam-Webster. Archived from the original on 10 August 2021. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
  3. ^ "Fresh Curry Leaves Add a Touch of India". NPR. 28 September 2011. Archived from the original on 11 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  4. ^ "Curry definition and synonyms". Macmillan Dictionary. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 13 December 2016.
  5. ^ Raghavan, S. (2007). Handbook of Spices, Seasonings and Flavourings. CRC Press. p. 302. ISBN 978-0-8493-2842-8.
  6. ^ a b Van Esterik, Penny (2008). Food Culture in Southeast Asia. ABC-CLIO. pp. 58–59. ISBN 9780313344206.
  7. ^ Collingham, Lizzie (2006). Curry: A Tale of Cooks and Conquerors. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. p. 115. Archived from the original on 16 April 2020. Retrieved 16 July 2020. No Indian, however, would have referred to his or her food as a curry. The idea of curry as a particular dish does not exist in India. Indians referred to their different dishes by specific names. But the British lumped all these together under the heading of curry