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Anglo-Indian Sausage Curry

You need the patties from the preceding recipe and the same pan used for browning them with its leftover oil. This is in fact a continuation of the last recipe and makes for a quick curry, good with rice, bread, and also with fried eggs and toast! So, make the preceding recipe, remove the patties from the frying pan with a slotted spatula, put them on a plate, and proceed immediately to make the curry sauce. For a simple meal, serve with a rice dish and Corn with Aromatic Seasonings.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 3¿4

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive or canola oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
1 teaspoon finely grated peeled fresh ginger
2 cloves garlic, crushed to a pulp
4 medium tomatoes, grated coarsely, (page 289), or peeled and then finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon ground turmeric
1/2 teaspoon salt, or to taste
Lots of freshly ground black pepper
4–5 fresh hot green chilies (such as bird’s-eye), slit halfway up, starting at the bottom end

Preparation

  1. Pour the oil into the same pan in which the sausage patties were fried and set on medium-high heat. When hot, put in the onions. Stir and fry the onions until they are lightly browned. Add the ginger and garlic. Stir for a minute. Put in the tomatoes and turmeric. Stir and cook on medium-high heat for 3 minutes or until the sauce has thickened and caramelized a bit. Now add 1 cup water and the salt, pepper, and green chilies. Stir and bring to a simmer. Cover, turn heat to low, and simmer gently for 5 minutes. Put the sausage patties back into the pan, in a single layer if possible, spoon the sauce over them, cover, and heat them through.

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Excerpted from At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: Simple, Delectable Dishes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka by Madhur Jaffrey. Copyright © 2010 by Random House. Excerpted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher. Buy the full book from Amazon.
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