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{{Short description|Indian curry dish}}
{{Infobox food
| name             = Madras curry sauce
| image            = Madras Curry.JPG
| caption          = 
| alternate_name   = Madras sauce, Madras curry
| country          = [[India]]
| creator          = [[Anglo-Indian cuisine]]
| type             = [[Curry]]
| served           = Hot
| main_ingredient  = [[Curry powder]]
}}

'''Madras curry''' is a [[curry]] made with a sauce of [[onion]]s and [[tomato]]es, made spicy hot with [[chili pepper]] and a [[curry powder]] made from a mixture of other spices. The dish was invented in [[Anglo-Indian cuisine]]; the name is unknown in [[Indian cuisine]].

== Origins ==

Madras curry gets its name from the city of Madras (now [[Chennai]]) at the time of the [[British Raj]]; the name is not used in [[Indian cuisine]]. The name and the dish were invented in [[Anglo-Indian cuisine]] for a simplified spicy sauce made using [[curry powder]], tomatoes, and onions. The name denotes a generalised hot curry.

== Variations ==

There are many variations on Madras curry. For example, the television chef [[James Martin (chef)|James Martin]] makes his curry powder using black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, cumin, fennel seed, fenugreek, mustard seed, and turmeric, while his sauce contains fresh bay leaves, chilli pods, garlic, ginger, onion, tamarind, and tomato.


[[Category:Indian curries]]
[[Category:Tamil cuisine]]
[[Category:Spicy foods]]
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