Curry oil

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
A Feast of Fish 2

By Ian McAndrew

Published 1999

  • About

Flavoured oils have long been a favourite of mine, and this one is no exception. Once bottled it will keep almost indefinitely.

Ingredients

  • 1 onion
  • 3 stalks celery
  • 1 leek

Method

Roughly chop the onion, celery, leek, garlic, apple, tomato, ginger, lemon grass and lemon zest.

Heat a little of the olive oil in a saucepan and add the vegetables; sweat them in the oil with the pan covered until they are soft. Add the raisins, star anise and the coriander, cover and continue sweating for a few more minutes. Stir in the curry powder and paste along with the tomato pur