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Cooking method

Curry Sunday dinners

Curry is not one dish or one cuisine. What the dinners here share is a method: whole or ground spices bloomed in fat to build a base, then liquid, then a long enough simmer for the sauce to come together. The word covers Goan vindaloo, Japanese kare, Thai coconut curries and a dozen regional Indian traditions that have little in common besides that opening move.

12 plans in the Sunday Gallery.

What curry plans look like

Most common mains

  • chicken8
  • pork2
  • shellfish2

How they're cooked

  • Curry12

Cuisines

  • Thai5
  • Indian4
  • Goan2
  • Japanese1

The plans

Cuisines that cook this way

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