Just had my first attempt at making a Japanese curry with, beef, onions, potatoes, and carrots. It was a failure. >overcooked the potatoes, onions, and carrots >burned some food at the bottom of the pot >the curry sauce had bad texture (I believe it was the potatoes overcooking that caused this) >the curry sauce was too thin, which caused me to let the meal cook way over recommendation time just trying to get the sauce thicker. >The recipes I followed were for massive servings, I just tried to guess how much water and curry mix to add.
Japanese curry is one of my favorite dishes and I know it will be easy to prepare once I get the hang of it.
Do it again and pay more attention, reduce times, watch it better.
Brody Bennett
Stop being a weeb
Jackson Moore
follow the box u weeb and add a fuck ton of butter AND OIL
Landon Gomez
>weeb I live in a studio apartment, lack an oven (technically I have one but it's inside my microwave and weird as fuck to operate), and only use burners to cook.
I'm very good at making fried rice, it's my expertise, I'm looking for easy and tasty meals to start developing my skills with.
I think curry is a logical option. Japanese curry is something i like, and it's the simplest form of curry so I thought I might as well figure out how to do it.
Michael Watson
Curry really isn't hard, dude. Especially japanese curry.
>brown beef, remove, add onions, deglaze pan with sake, add oil >cook onions until soft and brown, add garlic if desired at the end and sautee for a minute >add stock/water >add potatoes and carrots, bring to a boil, then reduce to medium, add beef >dissolve curry blocks in a ladle/strainer, stir
May not be exactly right but you get the premise. The only stuff that should be "overcooked" are your onions. You don't want any pungency, just the sweetness. I like to add all sorts of shit to my curries. Last time I added turnips, mushrooms, and bell pepper.
Also never turn the pot on high when the meat is in there or else you will wind up with small chunks of tough beef that wouldn't even be suitable for dog food. It's a good rule of thumb with any meat dish, never ever boil meat. Medium is a safe bet for cooking it in a liquid, however.
Aiden Howard
Don't follow the box recipe. It gives you the worst tasting curry.
Heavily spice and brown your meats first and separately, if using chicken soak in curry yogurt over night. Also heavily spice and fry any of the vegetables that would benefit from a little color, things like bell peppers and onions, but don't let them go too long or they become way too soft in the curry.
Replace the water with stock.
The curry blocks are a base and should have more spices and things like a bay leaf added to it
I always cut up and add a single apple to mine around the last 10-15 minutes or so of cooking. I usually get the very spicy kind so the apple makes the dish more interesting because I never know whether each bite will be spicy or sweet since theres only one single apple in it.
Hunter Lewis
If your curry is too liquid, taste it. If it is still bland, add more curry mix. If it is flavorful enough add corn starch.
Aiden Perry
If your curry is too thin, you can either reduce it over low heat, or you can add more of the roux blocks.
Joshua Torres
i just wanna say that i really like japanese curry
i normally get it as chicken katsu or beef in a rice bowl with potato and carrot and sometimes i get it with beef and udon noodles and i really like it
i could cook it though seriously and im not even a great cook or anything
YGSIU (you gotta step it up)
smdh (shaking my damn head)
Jonathan Bailey
>follow the box >dont follow the box
How am I supposed to know how long to cook it if I don't follow a specific instruction.
I didn't have as much ingredients. and the cook time for the curry seem way too long, also 1 box of curry roux seemed like a lot. I added half a box of curry roux, and 3 cups instead of 3 1/2 cups. I also only had 1 onion, 3 potatoes, and 1 and a half carrots.
I think I screwed up on the roux, by adding half a box which lead me to overcook the curry because I wanted the sauce to be thicker by reducing it.
Maybe I should of done everything by the recipe.
Levi Cook
I feel you, when I follow recipes sometimes I feel like adding tweaks to it myself. Typically, it's best to just follow 100%. The entire box of curry roux is just what you needed to thicken it up. Trying to further reduce it would just result in massively overcooked vegetables and proteins, as it did.
As long as your first try was edible you're not a lost cause, user. Trial and error!
Adrian Richardson
it was edible, massive disappointment though. I guess I'll have to follow it exactly next time.
Also the roux wasn't spicy enough.
Jaxon Gonzalez
>I added half a box of curry roux, and 3 cups instead of 3 1/2 cups If you're going to cut the curry amount in half you should cut the water amount in half too. I messed up and added too much water the first time I made japanese curry too though. Mainly because I followed the instructions I read online too much.
Next time you make it just add the curry roux and then add the water a little at a time to see how much it needs and then you can add more if it's still too thick. It doesn't really matter what vegetables or how many you add to it either. It obviously can make it better but it's not something to stress about since japanese curry is pretty much all about the curry mix.
>Also the roux wasn't spicy enough. Japanese curry is more sweet than spicy usually. You should try and find a hotter mix or just add cayenne/chili flakes to it.
Logan Thompson
Perfect all the aspects you fucked up the first time. You are your own teacher. Good job user, post a pic of the final product.
Parker Green
What brand is the best?
Isaac Williams
This, although I'd add the carrots a few minutes before the potatoes since they take longer to soften. Also I just make my own roux instead of using curry blocks. It's not fucking hard, just make a brown roux, add garam masala, ketchup, chili peppers, worcestershire or whatever other Japanese sauces or spices you want, and add it to your curry when the potatoes are not quite done. Grate a little apple or throw some honey in.
Also I like to caramelize some onions to start, and then add some thickly-chopped onions later on so there's plenty of sweet, brown onion goodness and also some identifiable onion in the end product.
Jack Morales
so would you guys recommend switching out the water for stock or bouillon? i am very tempted to make some beef curry tonight. i've realized i don't really cook with beef very often and i think it'd be great in curry
Yes. Always. There are very very few cooking situations when you want to cook something in plain water.
Ethan James
Shut up, weeb
Caleb Powell
>tried to make Japanese style curry >make thick beef stew instead
Do they use stew beef in their curry?
Cameron White
HOW DO I MAKE ANIMU CURRY? THIS IS IMPORTANT
Matthew Robinson
not a weeb
Angel Rodriguez
I prefer Golden Curry, but that's also the only brand that I can find in my area.
Nathan Fisher
Kill yourself you weebs
Landon Powell
So, everyone, what's the over/under on this guy owning several anime girl body pillows, at least a dozen Japanese sex toys, and a mountain of imported nip candies and junk food?
William Cook
>implying you have all the species needed stew with rice/10
Nolan Rivera
>Not a single body pillow >not a single sex toy >no nip candies >only junk food I have is cheez-its I don't like it because it's Japanese. I like it because Japanese Curry is good.
Charles Richardson
Kill yourself weeb
or learn 2 make thai curry
Logan Nelson
i don't enjoy it as much, and it is harder to make. Why wouldn't I learn Japanese Curry first?
I'd prefer to make Pad krapow, or Pad See Ew before I made Thai Curry.
Nicholas Thompson
tfw no tsukemono
Chase Taylor
I was referring to the guy who's blatantly a closet weeb.
You, that is. Also, I know how to make Thai curry. It's nothing special. Quit slobbering all over Rama IX's dick, SEAboo. Fucking whitest post ever. Next you'll be bitching about how you can't find "authentic" Vietnamese banh mi anywhere in California. Fucking tryhard.
Nolan Hughes
You seem to be lost, this is an anime website buddy.
