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Unpicking “curry should be like this”.
“Don't you need turmeric in it?”
“Without paprika it doesn't look like curry, does it?”
We have been asked this many times.
Designing a free curry, unbound by what curry is “supposed to” be
Say “spice curry” and something yellow, hot and thickened with roux tends to come to mind, doesn't it?
But the curry Inspice has in mind is freer, and more a matter of the senses.
It does not have to be yellow, or hot, or thick.
What it has to be is a single story spun by aroma and flavour.
We design curry not as a dish but as a story of aroma and taste.
The spices come into harmony, depth appears, and a landscape rises on the plate.
If a curry does that, it is already, properly, “your curry”.
Curry No.3 contains neither turmeric nor paprika.
This is a deliberate subtraction.
By removing the visual cue of yellow, the design puts the focus on aroma and flavour.
No.3 works from the concept of a bouquet garni you can eat: four herbs, including bay leaf and rosemary, blended with eight spices for a herb-led spice curry. Beyond curry, the flavour suits soups and pasta sauces just as well.
Leaving out turmeric and paprika lets the aromas of herb spices such as oregano, bay leaf and rosemary, and the sweet nuance of fenugreek, come through more clearly.
Not the look, but a curry you eat with your nose. That is what marks out No.3.
Curry No.4 is a curry that deliberately turns thick.
Inspice's Spice Curry Symphony No.4 is a blend that chases the balance between sweetness and spice. It was developed around the image of eating on a southern island, with a slow, lingering finish.
What marks it out is that two dried fruits, Bing cherry and date, sit among its fourteen ingredients. They bring natural sweetness and body to the curry, and round out its harmony with the spices. The heat is restrained, yet a deep flavour stays clearly in the mouth. That is how the blend is finished.
Rice flour and pure cocoa in the blend also give the curry a moderate thickness, another of No.4's appeals.
“Not too watery, and it clings properly to the rice.”
That well-judged weight on the palate is often praised as easy for children to eat.
It goes well not only with meat but with seafood and pulses, so you can arrange the ingredients however you like.
A curry that stays close to its ingredients while adding a touch of the extraordinary to the table.
That is Symphony No.4.
Because we want you to find the curry that is only yours
Our Spice Curry series deliberately leaves a lot of room.
A recipe is only one proposal. From there on, we want to hand it over to the imagination of whoever is cooking.
“Let's make it with vegetables only.”
“What if I squeezed lemon over it?”
“Maybe add herbs at the end.”
Play freely, like that, with the time spent making curry itself.
What we make is a blueprint for aroma.
Curry = freedom. Aroma = your story.
There is no single right answer for curry.
Or rather, there may never have been a right answer at all.
Once you unpick “curry should be like this”, what comes into view is
“curry = you”: a world that is more fun, and more delicious.
Inspice delivers tools of aroma for that kind of free table.
