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Dinner · 20 min · 2 plates

Currywurst

Sliced sausage, a curry-tomato sauce, bread. German street food. The curry is on the sauce, not in a stew. Don't make hot dogs with ketchup and dust.

The sheet · 2 plates · 20 min

easy

Why tonight. Sliced sausage, a curry-tomato sauce, bread. German street food. The curry is on the sauce, not in a stew. Don't make hot dogs with ketchup and dust.

What it needs

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  • sausage
  • tomato paste
  • curry powder
  • paprika
  • bread

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: chili flakes.

Method

  1. The sauce is the dish, not the sausage. Fry the tomato paste hard in oil until it darkens before anything else.
  2. Curry powder and paprika bloomed in that fat, then a splash of vinegar and a little sugar.
  3. It should be sweet, sour and spiced all at once, and thick enough to coat.
  4. Sausage browned separately and sliced, sauce over, more curry powder dusted on top at the end.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

sausage
Seasoned fat and meat that arrives pre-flavored, so it does double duty as protein and as the base a dish is built on.
tomato paste
Concentrated sweetness and savory depth, and it is raw out of the tube.
curry powder
A blend, not a spice, and every tin is a different blend.
paprika
Color and a mild sweet pepper flavor, and it scorches into bitterness almost instantly.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.

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