Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Jap Curry

Argh, my dream reminded me of e Jap Curry i made during feb. I lazy to find tt post, so i jus repost tt pic.



I saw a curry cooking show on tv yest noon. She was doing basically e same thing i did. Except tt her Jap curry is sweet and fruity and she uses chicken i used pork.

Its very easy to make, er, provided u cook lah. So maybe u gals wan to try it. I cant really imagine eating a sweet fruity curry though.

I will explain the receipe to e best of my memory. E guy who tasted her curry said its e best jap curry he tasted. Mus be bluff one, i dun believe.

Jap Curry Sauce
1) Add one tablespoon of butter into pot.
2) Add some chopped garlic.
3) Then some chopped onions.
4) Let it sauteen (duno how u spell tis, let it sit for awhile to soften e onions. From my experience, adding some wine is gd at tis pt, french style)
5) Then add in chopped green apples.
6) Lastly, add in chopped bananas.
7) Pour in a cup of chicken stock. Boil.
8) Ok now heres e prob, e lady sprinkled some orange powder from a small bottle, she said its to give a nice color. I haf no idea wats tt, so check out jap groceries.
9) Then she added in curry powder tis time, its a packet of grey brown powder, so check out jap curry powders as well. Tis one shd be easier to find.
10) Add one tablespoon of honey.
11) Let it simmer.
12) Chop some potatoes and carrots.
13) Boil the vegetables in water in another pot. Meanwhile go do e chicken katsu.

Chicken Katsu (Tis is is pretty standard, e same as how i always do katsu)
1) Flatten ur meat by cutting, if u use pork, remember to pound it, chicken no need to pound.
2) Beat some eggs, pour it onto a plate for easy coating
3) Prepare a plate of flour (in e show she jus said flour, i use jap tempura flour though)
4) Prepare a plate of bread crumbs. (e show said use e jap one, coz its coated wif honey, so will haf sweet taste, no idea how honey n bread crumbs come together though, u can use normal breadcrumbs of coz, its cheaper.)
5) U may wan to marinate ur meat, i do for mine. But jap one no need i think.
6) Now start coating, 1stly e flour (not too much), then eggs, then lastly crumbs.
7) Then deep dry it. Cut into smaller pieces afterwards.

Back to the sauce.
1) Drain ur cooked veges. (tis is wasteful, i would haf put e vege soup to gd use) Leave e veges in e pot.
2) E curry sauce tt u haf been cooking should be reduced to mashy state. So using a sieve, sift e sauce for a smooth texture into e pot of vege. Meanwhile use a spoon to mash on the substances left in e sieve.
3) Add in cornflour solution to thicken the sauce. (So chinese, i dun remember e actual jap curry using tis method). Then boil it for a short while until e thickness is jus nice. Dun overcook ur veges. She overcooked hers in e show i can tell.
4) And then done! U can serve e curry over e rice, together wif e chicken katsu.

Go try it, and let me noe if its nice. I imagine it being sweet from e way it was cooked. Sweet curry, hmm, cant imagine.

3 comments:

wingéd densetsu said...

hmm did it say what kind of bananas? cos banana many kinds...wah...i think i won't be able to stand sweet curry hahahahah...got normal jap curry version (which i know a bit sweet but not as sweet as the one above i think). I think next time i go grocery shopping at giant (at parkway parade) cos a lot more variety.

Maybe the orange powder is turmeric powder?

Celestine said...

Just normal bananas will do.

What's turmeric powder?

wingéd densetsu said...

a kind of spice from a root (with very very orange flesh) and smells yucky (to me, when in raw form, I'm okay with powder)

usually if u coat before frying something, it will turn that chicken etc browny - yellowy...

if u touch it I think leave a stain on ur fingers like 1-2 days.