i have just made a curry but the sauce is a bit watery how can i thicken it up without adding flour?!
Answers:
Just keep it on a slow simmer, the sauce will thicken naturally.
In cooking there are 3 ways to thickening a sauce without adding dish altering ingredients
1) roux=Equal parts flour and fat cooked in separate pan then added until desired thickness (french)
2)Slurry= Cornstarch added to cold water in separate container added to simmering liquid (your dish)until it reaches desired consistency (asian)
3) Reduce. If you have a lot of liquid (like a stew or osso bucco), strain so that the other ingredients do not over cook, then boil until desired thickness. Beware that if this method is used that you do not salt until the very end. (general)
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If you want sauce thicker and tastier than other thickeners like flour, potato, or starch etc. just fry sliced onions in a frying pan till dark brown grind it and add to curyy it will taste good and thicker it will be.
if its an indian curry u are talking about----u could add potatoes ( cut into small pcs ) which was obviously absorb th extra water :) voila !
Reduce it.
(Simmer it until it thickens.)
That's what you do.
Corn starch mixed with cold water, slowly add to the sauce until its at your desired level of thickness.
Use cornflour or take the lid off the pot and leave on low and it will thicken up.
add mashed potatoes!
breadcrumbs or custard powder
Let it simmer, or add tomato puree :)
Other than flour you could add baking soda :)
add yorshire pudding?!
try 1 teaspoon of cornflour in a little water then stir it in