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INDIAN GRAVIES AND BASIC PASTE

  INDIAN GRAVIES AND BASIC PASTE   Curry as the word is used today in India, simply means a gravy. In the West gravy is a liquid sauce made with juice from the meat, thickened with flour and seasonings. Indian curry or gravy is made by cooking the meat or vegetables along with lots of ingredients including thickening agents and a combination of spices but using no flour.   GRAVY: It is a liquid or semi liquid mixture cooked along with meat or vegetables, lots of spices and mainly thickened and enriched with dry nuts .   Making a gravy // curry   The starting point in making a curry is to choose a cooking pot with a non reactive inner surface. Most curries have sour ingredients, so if a copper or brass pot were used it would have to have a tin lining. Stainless steel is better from the reactive point of ...