Japanese Curry

Together with some frozen meats in the fridge, and a packet of Japanese Curry mix which i bought sometime back, i cooked all my meals.

This cooking spree began last Friday, with my risotto attempt. I ate that for 2 meals. Followed by some soup made with the stock, with rice and 'pickled radish' omlette. (aka chai pu dan).
Monday, i decided to make something more tasty, and made the vegetarian curry.
It consisted of 1 whole onion, finely diced, 4 carrots chopped into bitesizes, 1 red bell pepper, and 4-5 potatoes. The potatoes are peeled and cut in halves, and then boiled in salted water until you can pierce a chopstick right through w/o much resistance. Then the water is drained, and they're left to cool.

It was the first time i handled a pack of japanese curry mix, and i was pretty surprised.
Usually, curry comes in the form of powder. The japanese curry mix came in a solid form. It felt and behaved like a chunk of plastecine. Smelt great though.
Nevertheless, i broke it up into smaller chunks, and dumped it all into the pan.
It melted and thickened like crazy. Upon which, i panicked a little bit. I quickly added water to the pan to de-glaze it, and after several additions, it became thinner, and upon testing, tasted just nice. Potatoes are added, and simmer for awhile for flavour to go into t

You can then accompany the curry rice with almost any side. It was pretty late that night, so i jsut fried an omlette to go with it. A popular way of eating this curry is to accompany it with various deep fried meats.
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