Curry powder

Curry name adopted from the Tamil word KARI meaning "sauce'' which is usually understood to mean vegetable or meat cooked with spices with or without   gravy.

Curry is a dish originating in the cuisine of the Indian subcontinent. The common feature is the use of complex combination of spices or herbs usually including fresh or dried hot chillies . The use of the this ingredients is limited to the dishes prepared in a sauce.

For original tradition cuisine the precise selection of spices for each dish is a matter of national or regional cultural traditions, religious practices and family preference too..Such dishes are called by their specific names that refer to their ingredient , spicing and cooking methods. Traditionally spices are used  both raw and cooked and they may be added at different times during the cooking process to get different delicious taste. The main spices found in most curry powders are coriander, cumin, turmeric. We also add different types of  curry powder to get different taste for curry.

Curry may contain fish ,meat ,poultry shellfish either alone or with vegetables.Curries may be either dry or hot .Dry curries are cooked with very little liquid which is allowed to evaporate , leaving the other ingredients coate with the spice mixture.

Recipe to make goan fish curry using curry powder: