How do I make my curry darker?

Here’s how you make your curry deeper and darker:

1. Take some water in a deep-bottomed pan and add some black tea leaves to it.
2. Boil the water till it attains a black colour.
3. Add this water to your curry while cooking to get that perfect deep brown tinge.

How do you add flavor to Indian food?

Finally, when you’re adding sauce ingredients to an Indian dish, such as coconut milk, milk, cream, tomato sauce, tomatoes, or tomato paste, you can add more spices at this stage, such as turmeric, paprika, and Indian red chili powder to balance all the flavours you’ve added thus far.

How do you fix bland Indian food?

1. Pay extra attention to your spices –
2. Cook the curry base well.
3. Make sure you add spices at the right time.
4. Be very careful when adding water.
5. Add more spices esp.
6. Make sure you add a little bit more salt to the dish.
7. Make more curry base and add it to your curry.
8. Add some cilantro at the end.

How do you brighten curry?

There are so many things you can do to improve this; in no particular order:

1. Use chicken thighs instead of breasts for more flavour.
2. Use ghee or butter to make the dish fuller in flavour.
3. Use yogurt instead of heavy cream.
4. Use lemon or lime juice.
5. Add sugar.
6. Add whole peppercorns while cooking.
7. Garam masala.

How do I improve curry sauce?

9 of the Best Ways of Thickening Curry

1. Add Yoghurt. Adding thick yoghurt to the curry can make it thicker.
2. Use Tomato Puree.
3. Use Garlic and Ginger Paste in the Beginning.
4. Use Garam Masala at the End.
5. Manage the Speed of Cooking.
6. Use Medium or High Flame.
7. Sauté Vegetables for Chinese and Thai Curry.
8. Use Cream or Butter.

How do you activate spices?

When hot, add an oil with a high smoking point (like canola or vegetable) and heat it up for about a minute before adding whole spices. These can include but are not limited to bay leaves, cinnamon sticks, whole cloves, cardamom pods, and coriander seeds—any whole spice will open up its aromatics in oil.

Which Indian spices go well together?

One basic sister spice combination is ground turmeric and red chilli powder. Almost every spicy Indian dish contains these two spices. Other sister spices are cloves and cinnamon, coriander and cumin, and nutmeg and mace.

Is cooking Indian food difficult?

Indian food isn’t hard to cook, if you get down to basics. Texture and colour have low importance, complexity of flavour is very important. A pleasing aroma is nice to have, but not essential for all dishes until they are fully cooked. Start by frying your dry whole spices.