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• powder: Make the curry powder into a paste with a teaspoon of water.

• paste: Try making it with any prepared curry paste for an even simpler dish.

• sauce: They make a huge batch of basic curry sauce at a time then use a little for each curry.

• favor: I suspect Blair is likely to curry favor with the big guy by letting him sup at the poisoned chalice of Sellafield.

• dish: TIPS Eat pulp as it is, or use to add flavor to meat stews and curry dishes.

Adjective modifier

• spicy: Or, if that is too Western for some people's tastes, what about a nice, spicy curry?

• creamy: Creamy Chicken Curry All the taste of your usual creamy curry, with none of the calorie worries.

• mild: Either she got extra hot mild curry or she isn't terribly immune to hot spices.

• Indian: That first evening he introduced me to Indian curry.

• hot: Either she got extra hot mild curry or she isn't terribly immune to hot spices.

Modifies a noun

• paste: While the sauce is cooking, add the balls to it, and stir in the curry paste.

• powder: A pinch of curry powder added to the pot will heighten the flavor further.

• sauce: I've read that restaurants use an onion gravy which, I imagine, is similar to your basic curry sauce.

• house: The curry house has been a feature of the British high street for 40 odd years.

• dish: From nowhere, a feast of assorted curry dishes appeared on the table.

Preposition: with

• rice: Tonight we had a pasta in tomato sauce starter, a mixed curry with rice main course and madeira cake for dessert.