What's troubled me because of the difference between my previous world and my current world are the practical items. In my previous world, if I want to get tomato sauce or soy sauce, they available, already packed in bottles, in any supermarket from many different producers, if I want to make curry, I can buy curry powder that available even in any supermarkets, but in here, I must make my own curry powder from the ingredients that made curry powder. The ingredients are: Coriander, Cumin, Turmeric, Garlic, and Red Chilies
So, this time I will make curry paste and curry powder together for later usage.
I arrived at the kitchen with Craig while brings some ingredients makes the cooks that just finished having their breakfast surprised 😮.
"Young master Henry, we just finished make sliced potatoes as your order, but that sliced potatoes haven't been soaked in salt water for too long"
"It's okay, I come for another purpose, but let me see that sliced potato"
A cook brings a big basin with sliced potatoes soaked in salt water inside it. I take a taste on the salt water to test if that water is salty enough to make potato chip.
"How much salt you pour in this basin?"
"3 spoons full of salt, young master"
"Too little, add a half jar of salt t this basin and keep the potato soaked in water until lunchtime"
"Yes young master"
After that cook carried out what I ask for him, I told to the cooks my intention of my visit this time.
"Gentlemen, I want to teach you another recipe. This recipe also uses potato as the main ingredient. So please prepare some potato, washed and diced into a small cube. Also, grind these ingredients I brought into powder and paste"
I already separated spices that will be changed into paste and powder in the separated section on the table.
"At once, young master!"
The cooks hurriedly did as I ask from them, and while waiting for my order finished, I back to my room to take the small knife I use for craving vegetables and fruits. When I return to the kitchen, the ingredients I ask already finish and prepared in the table that I usually use for preparing dish.
"Thank you guys, now the recipe I want to teach this time is potato curry. This is another way to cook potato into something delicious dish. I give a simple recipe first, and I tell you, this curry dish can also use meat as an ingredient"
I start making potato curry with the portion that enough for 4 servings.
Ingredients that I need to make potato curry are:
• 3 medium potatoes, washed, peeled and cut into small cubes
• 1 tbsp garlic paste
• 1 tbsp red chili powder
• ½ tbsp cumin powder
• ½ teaspoon turmeric powder
• 1 bunch coriander, finely chopped
• salt, to taste
• 3 tbsp cooking oil
• 2 cups of water
COOKING INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Start by peeling and cutting the potatoes into small cubes.
2. In a pan with medium heat on the stove, add the cooking oil and garlic paste. Cook for 30 seconds and then add the potato pieces. Cook for 2 mins.
3. Quickly after this, add in the spices, stir for 10 seconds and add in the water. The potatoes should be almost completely submerged in water.
4. Leave the potatoes to cook on low heat for 20 mins or until the water has evaporated and the curry has thickened. Stir occasionally. Check to see if the potatoes are cooked all the way through and are soft, if not then add one cup more water and let it cook some more.
5. Once the curry is of the right consistency and the potatoes are cooked all the way through, add in the coriander and cook for 30 seconds more.
6. Serve fresh with bread or rice.
This dish does not need a long time to prepared, within around 30 minutes I already finish make this potato curry dish. The steams with rich spicy flavor come out from the pot when I open the lid.
"Smells good! So rich with spice aroma!"
"Unbelievable! Just from potato can come such dishes"
Well, I think I can get accustomed to their praise every time I make a new dish in the kitchen. I ask three bowls to put the curry for my father and sister to try. I left the rest for the cooks to taste it.
"Do we still have some bread left?"
"Yes, young master"
A cook takes some bread and presents it to me. I put it with the curry bowl in the tray, now I need to make some fruit and vegetable craving before sending this dish to my father and my sister.
"Thank you, and now this man with me there is Craig, I already teach him a recipe called noodle during my trip to the sea, and now he will teach you how to make it. Craig, you can start teaching the cooks here about noodle recipe, ask what you need to make noodle from them"
"Yes, young master"
Craig asks some flour and water from the cooks and starts to make dough for noodle. I watch him teaching while graving some fruits and vegetables. I finish graving the fruit and vegetables when Craig also finish with his dough and ready to cook the noodles.
"Guys, I'm leaving to give this dish to my father. You can discuss the dishes with Craig or exchanges recipe, make this potato curry as today's lunch menu too. Craig, you can go to the storage room to take what you need there, just tell to the officer there I order you. And the rest of this curry, you guys can try for a taste"
"Thank you, young master!"
"Mrs. Martina, I need a maid to carry this tray to my father office"
"I will get a maid for that, young master"
But before I leave the kitchen, Craig is approaching me.
"Young master, can I use this curry recipe for the barrack kitchen? This recipe is just I need for the barrack kitchen. Simple yet delicious"
"Sure, why not? Those soldiers will be happy to eat this dish"
With a maid carrying the tray with curry bowl for my father, I leaving the kitchen to my father study room. Besides, make him testing this new dish, I also have something to discuss with him.