Queen Victoria Loved Curry. What Would She Have Thought Of The Dumbed Down British 'French' Version?

The Indian Spice Traders introduced a special blend for the British. Though using British "Curry Powder" and thickening the sauce with flour took away its Indian authenticity it did make the curry mild enough for the palace palates and thus chicken curry picnic lunches at Sandringham and Balmoral were very popular.

This recipe is similar to the curry sauce ladled over chip shop chips in the UK.
What’s your favorite curry around the world ?

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Chicken Curry
Makes 4 portions

1 ½ lb chicken breast, cubed
1 oz /25g / ¼ cup all purpose flour
1 oz/25g/ ¼ cup (or to taste) curry powder
1 large onion – chopped
1 apple – peeled and chopped
3 cups/ 1 ½ pints chicken broth
1 tbs olive oil
salt and pepper

Serve with rice, poppadoms and mango chutney

Cut the meat into 1 inch cubes and fry in the oil to seal in the juices. Remove to a bowl. Add the onions and apple and sweat off to soften. Stir in the curry powder.

Return the meat to the pan and stir in the flour. Gradually add the broth and keep stirring.

Simmer for about 20 minutes or until the meat is tender and season with the salt and pepper.

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[Jaydoggy]

My personal favorite dish with curry that I take to work in a lunchbox on a daily basis: a little oil in the pan, a much spicier curry blend heat up in the oil. I put in a chopped tomato, corn, chopped carrots, poached chicken, and all parts of the scallions (white and greens). It's great for leftovers.

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Can’t believe you have Queen Victoria recipes as well! Please do more :)

[jamesnoonan]

The past five years or so, every since me and my wife and I have had our own home. I make my own turkey curry in the slow cooker. It's the identical mix off spices except it turkey, not chicken. I also add chic peas in for some texture. We normally have it on Boxing Day or New years Day (helps with the hangover)

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[SubhodeepSarkar]

You're absolutely right about the British inventing the curry. This is nothing like what we eat. I suppose it tastes different but probably good. Did the royals enjoy any authentic Indian dishes? Just curious.

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[EnterTheDutch]

Actually ended up following this recipe with a couple of exceptions. I didn't have the same spices, I had garam massala (which contains a lot of things like fennegreek, cumin, coriander etc.) and added curry powder and chili powder. Also, I may have missed if he used it in this video but I added 3 cloves of garlic and some fresh ginger. I also used chicken thighs instead of chicken breast and I felt like this curry could use chickpeas so I added that too.

All in all, turned out absolutely amazing.

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[erinmarie]

The curry looks delicious! My favourite Indian dish is Chana Masala with rice and naan bread.

[JafferManiar]

Thank you for clarifying that many "Indian" dishes are indeed British.

Some of them have been introduced back to India and have become popular there too!

♥️ Winston's dramatic entrance

One of my favourite curries to cook is the Japanese karē raisu with beef and a whole apple.

[dawoodwilliams]

My favourite "Curry" is actually a dish from my hometown, Cape Town.
We adopted the word curry from the British, but the food has Indian roots(obviously)and also Indonesian/Malaysian roots as well as local produce.
It's the Cape Malay Snoek Curry.

[jackiegermann]

Adding a dash of both meat curry and fish curry spices to make chicken curry is so delicious! I haven’t been able to find these spices in back in the US. I learned this from a friend in Malaysia