January 23, 2011

Curry Nabe/カレー鍋

Tonight's supper was some marvelous marbled buri (adult yellowtail) sashimi plus curry nabe made by my wife.
今夜の夕食は、素晴らしいブリ(トロ)の刺身と、妻が作ったカレー鍋でした。

Buri caught in winter are called kan buri, and are very fatty.
(Note that one slice of sashimi in the lower right corner had been eaten before this photo was taken.)
冬に獲れるブリを寒ブリと呼びます。とても油がのっています。
(この写真を撮る前に、右下隅の刺身は食べてしまいました。)


The broth was:
1,600 ml water
2 tsp instant dashi
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 store-bought curry roux blocks

汁は:
水 1,600 ml
出汁の素 小さじ2
しょう油 大さじ1
市販のカレールー 2ブロック

I should have said curry udon nabe.
カレーうどん鍋と言うべきでした。

We later added frozen sanuki udon to the nabe.
後で、冷凍讃岐うどんを鍋に入れました。

5 comments:

Yangsze said...

This looks so delicious! It's making me feel hungry right now...

Hiroyuki said...

YSC: Thanks for your comment. The beauty of my recipe is that it does not call for curry powder. (As you may know, most Japanese have a few boxes of curry roux in their kitchens, but not curry powder.)

Katrin said...

I have a silly question: how much curry roux do you mean when you speak of "one block"? A whole plastic container (of which a box typically contains two, I think) or one-sixth of that (what you get when you break the contents of the plastic container into the designated cubes)?

Hiroyuki said...

Katrin: The latter. You can always substitute curry powder + some kind of broth for curry roux.
The main reason why I use curry roux is that it's cheaper than curry powder.

Katrin said...

Most recipes I know that use curry call for curry powder. I had to go to a shop that carries Japanese products to get curry roux - no such thing in the supermarket around the corner ;) I have bought a can of S&B Spicy Curry Powder as well, though. I am still a bit hesitant to use it, as I don't know how spicy (read: hot) it is exactly.