Brown Gravy Indian, Basic Indian Curry Gravy, How to Make Brown Gravy
Brown Gravy Indian style is one of the homemade ready made curry recipes which can be used to make a variety of other recipes. It can be refrigerated and stored for future use which makes your job of making a new recipe very simple.
Apart from this recipe, you may also like my previous posts green gravy and white gravy.
Brown Gravy Indian, Basic Indian Curry Gravy, How to Make Brown Gravy
Brown Gravy Indian style is one of the homemade ready made curry recipes which can be used to make a variety of other recipes.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Calories 120 kcal
Ingredients
- Tomatoes - 1 no. finely chopped
- Capsicum - 1 no. finely chopped
- Onion - 1 no. finely chopped
- Ginger - 1 tbsp. grated
- Garlic - 1 tbsp. grated
- Wheat flour - 1tbsp.
- Tamarind juice - 2 tbsp.
- Coriander leaves - 1 tbsp. Finely chopped
- Turmeric powder - 1/4 tbsp.
- Red chilly powder - 1/2 tbsp.
- Coriander powder - 1/2 tbsp.
- Cumin seeds - 1/2 tbsp.
- Asafetida - 2 pinch
- Cardamon - 2 no.
- Cloves - 2 no.
- Bay leaf - 1 no.
- Whole dry red chilly - 2 no.
- Oil - 3 tbsp.
- Salt - as per your taste
- Cinnamon stick - 1-inch size
Instructions
Preparation of Brown Gravy Indian style:
- Roast wheat flour by stirring constantly till you obtain pink color
- Heat oil and fry till golden color
- Drain and squeeze excess oil in onions and cool.
- Put back oil in a pan and grind onions, keep aside
- Add cumin seeds in oil and let them splutter.
- Add capsicum, ginger, garlic and asafetida and saute for a minute
- Meanwhile roast and grind cardamoms, cloves, dry red chilly, cinnamon stick and bay leaf
- Add this ground masala and wheat flour to the above mix, stir well
- Add tomatoes, tamarind water and salt.
- Stir occasionally and cook on low heat till you obtain thick gravy and oil oozes out.
- This brown gravy can be used with any vegetables, all you need to do is to add your veggies and cook further for 2-5 minutes
- Garnish with coriander leaves.
- It goes well with paratha, roti etc.
Veggies which can be added to brown gravy Indian style recipe are:
- Chunky veggies like boiled peas, boiled baby potatoes
