Indian food can be a taste sensation when you know what spices to use. However, for the home cook, with so many spices to choose from, it can be a challenge to decide which ones you need to include. How do you ensure you get the right balance and achieve those sweet, tangy, and spicy notes?
Here at Penniblack, we absolutely love working with spices to create unique dishes which elevate the ingredients. Our experience has taught us that ultimately, the key to successful Indian dishes is to use the right spice mix and to ensure their full flavour is extracted by using the ‘blooming’ process.
Blooming means cooking the spices in oil, butter or ghee. This process enhances the flavour of the spices to really do them justice, bringing out their full aromatic and fragrant potential. Furthermore, if you use fresh spices and whole seeds, once bloomed, the process of grinding them in a pestle and mortar will further enhance their flavour.
So, whilst it may be a little daunting and seem quite complicated once you master the art of balanced spicing, you will be a curry making pro in no time at all.
To make a basic Indian curry spice mix, you will need the following spices. You can, of course, add more as your confidence grows. However, these will give you a delicious curry that packs bags of flavour.
