What is base gravy?

Base gravy forms the foundation for most curries cooked in British Indian Restaurants. It's made from onions, tomatoes and spices, slow cooked for several hours and blended down to make a smooth stock/sauce which is added to curries along with other ingredients and spices.

On its own base gravy doesn't taste particularly good, it's a bit like a weak onion soup. The magic happens when you apply intense heat and add spices and other ingredients, this causes certain reactions and caramelisation to occur developing the familiar rich, intense curry flavour.

Why use base gravy?

Base gravy is used to speed up the cooking process in busy restaurant kitchens. Cooking a traditional curry from scratch takes around an hour or so, something very few customers would be willing to wait for each time they ordered their food.

To increase efficiency in the kitchen, different component parts of a curry are prepared and pre-cooked - base gravy is just one of those components. When an order comes in the different components are combined and cooked so that a curry can be ready in around 5-10 minutes.

What's special about our base gravy?

Our base gravy is made with our tried and tested recipe which we still use in our own kitchen and curry sauces.

• Made with natural ingredients and free from anything artificial.
• Cooked by expert Indian chefs to a tried and tested recipe
• Packed in special pouches with a 1 month shelf life when stored in a cupboard or 6 months when stored in a freezer