Tuesday, June 15, 2010

What IS kari kurma?

I was cooking with a packet of Alagappa's kurma curry powder at lunchtime.

On the packet the ingredients are written:
Ramuan:
Rempah, jintan putih, jintan manis, lada, kayu manis, bunga lawang, buah pelaga

But in English, "rempah" is "coriander". Huh?
("lada" is translated as pepper)

Okay, never mind.

But in the instructions...the three last ingredients are in the "ingredients" too! (I mean the ingredients you need to cook the dish, besides the packet of curry powder) What's more, there's a whole list of other ingredients "to grind" (untuk ditumbuk), and also more stuff (there's a list, then another list for "mixture A (to grind)", then another list for "mixture B (whole)") I don't understand this...then the whole point of this curry powder is to be able to cook the dish without using jintan putih and jintan manis??

But if I wanted to go and look for all those ingredients, I might as well look for jintan putih and jintan manis at the same time...

Another thing that puzzles me is...why is there no "kari" and no "kurma" in the ingredients of the packet...nor in the ingredients "to add"? Then why is it called "kari kurma"?

Please enlighten me....

PS: I only used the packet and added milk. No other spices. The dish was okay, I guess. Though I had to use the whole packet for half the amount of chicken stated in the recipe...probably because I didn't add spices. What on earth...?!

I am perplexed.

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