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[bendy]

I need to make a curry a bit darker in appearance than it is. short of lobbing coal in the pot what natural thing can i do.

i have the tomato puree option but don't really want to add tomato flavour to the dish. i also have a bottle of chemical laden gravy browning which would do the job but would prefer to not use that.

also i though all e-numbers were chemical dross

[Russe11]

burn it

[winkie]

I need to make a curry a bit darker in appearance than it is. short of lobbing coal in the pot what natural thing can i do.

i have the tomato puree option but don't really want to add tomato flavour to the dish. i also have a bottle of chemical laden gravy browning which would do the job but would prefer to not use that.

also i though all e-numbers were chemical dross

You would only need one or two drops of browning.

Edit to say:

In addition to browning gravies, it can also be used to add colour to stews, soups, microwave-cooked meats, cakes, icing and home-brewed beers. Use gravy browning judiciously, otherwise the dish will become unattractively brown. If you cannot obtain it, substitute with caramel food colouring, Worcestershire sauce, instant coffee granules, dry-roasted plain flour or browned onions, depending on the dish you are colouring.

[bendy]

You would only need one or two drops of browning.

nnnngh, you'd only need one or two drops of cyanide to turn you hawking

burning summat and adding it to the sauce is an option, might do some pork belly for the cats

[SarahBell]

Isn't gravy browning normally coloured with caramel?

Do the onions darker and they'll colour the base a bit darker.

Food colourings

(use red cochineal which is crushed insects ... mmm yummy )

Mix red and green food coloring.

Add additional color for more specific shades. For instance, adding a touch of orange and green will create a tan-like brown, while a warm, rich brown can be achieved by adding a touch of yellow. If the color looks too gray or black, add more red or yellow.

Read more: How to Make Brown Food Coloring | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/how_4797156_make-brown-food-coloring.html#ixzz1rGuDNr69

[bendy]

yeah sarah i ******ed up by just chucking all the base ingredients in the marinade last night and then fryed them all up in one go so the onions are just soft and not browned.

pork belly in a pan for the cats now though, will scrape the toxic brown bits into the sauce soon.

[SarahBell]

Or you could have fried some onions with a pinch of sugar.

[bendy]

onions in already and i get enough sugar via the pop!

[winkie]

onions in already and i get enough sugar via the pop!

....what about some dark soy sauce.....care re salt if already used stock cube.

[bendy]

....what about some dark soy sauce.....care re salt if already used stock cube.

STOCK CUBES

get out.

[winkie]

STOCK CUBES

get out.

.....safe to use then....unless already added extra salt.

[bendy]

.....safe to use then....unless already added extra salt.

yeah i already seasoned it.

seeing as i've been on the booze i could just piss in it i guess.

WINE. surely the answer.

[thecrashingisles]

Guinness

[The Eagle]

I need to make a curry a bit darker in appearance than it is.

Why? When it comes to food you should be primarily worried about nutritional value, then taste. Looks really don't matter much with food (unless it looks completely disgusting like Bridget Jones blue soup ).

[@contradevian]

Cumin?

[SarahBell]

onions in already and i get enough sugar via the pop!

Well just close your eyes then.

[tiremola]

Squid ink?

[tiremola]

The classical meal in black may interest you, if you want some ideas. It occurs in J K Huysman’s novel A Rebours, [1884]: -

“….While a concealed orchestra played funeral marches, the guests were waited on by naked negresses wearing shoes and stockings of cloth of silver besprinkled with tears.

The viands were served on black-bordered plates: - turtle soup, Russian black bread, ripe olives from Turkey, caviar, mullet roe, Frankfurt smoked sausages, game dished up in sauces coloured to resemble liquorice water and boot-blacking, truffles in jelly, chocolate-tinted creams, puddings, nectarines, fruit preserves, mulberries and cherries. The wines were drunk from dark-tinted glasses,--wines of the Limagne and Roussillon vintages, wines of Tenedos, the Val de Penas and Oporto. After the coffee and walnuts came other unusual beverages, kwas, porter and stout.

The invitations, which purported to be for a dinner in pious memory of the host's (temporarily) lost virility, were couched in the regulation phraseology of letters summoning relatives to attend the obsequies of a defunct kinsman.”

[winkie]

...can I suggest black pudding for desert, should finish it off nicely.

[chronyx]

Roobios tea

[okaycuckoo]

Add pureed spinach - adds lovely deep flavour.

[Son of Taeper]

By coincidence, I have one on the go at the moment.

I was thinking about making mine lighter as I was too lazy to put much more effort into it.

I tend to use yogurt cream coconut , to make it lighter.

Chuck it in at the last minute.

As the man said, Guinness will get it darker, I think it may leave an aftertaste though.

Mackeson stout works well for me if I want a deep flavour but I only use it in stews

I would stay clear of the gravy recommendation as well.

If you must trash a meal you spent hours on just to get it darker, I would slice up an onion and throw a bit of sugar in half way through cooking.

Let it catch a bit, but keep a very good eye on it.

The other option is to use other stuff to make it look right.

Chuck in a bit of red or green peeper at the last moment along with a handfull of wild rocket or anything green that does not need a big cook.

Toms work if you don't have red pepper, just chuck it in.

If you want my blitz them out curry recipes I could post in another thread maybe..

I learnt long ago that the base of a curry was the sauce, the other stuff is just junk from the fridge or larder.

[Son of Taeper]

Wow,

In the time it took to drop my reply out there are so many replies to the op.

I think Sarah Bell gets my top vote though.

Sure, there was reference to beetle in the posts, but that is kind of fact.

[Son of Taeper]

Why? When it comes to food you should be primarily worried about nutritional value, then taste. Looks really don't matter much with food (unless it looks completely disgusting like Bridget Jones blue soup ).

I'm thinking you have no teeth and own a liquidiser. Visual impairment as well?

I could cook for you some time maybe and you can count and comment on the nutrients .

My eyes aren't too good anymore, and my teeth are pretty shot up on one side.

I don't count the nutrient as my first port of call though every time I take a meal.

That would be like weighing yourself before and after a poo.

[bankfeeder]

Marmite is always perfect for this.