Choose your curry sauce recipe and make your own takeaway!
I have been meaning to write about curry sauce for some time now.
Of course I have developed and written a lot of curry sauce recipes but with this post I wanted to bring them all together in one place.
Not only will you find links to recipes for the most popular curry sauces on this page, but also information about them to better help you decided which to try first.
Learn to make all the most popular curry sauces here!
Forward preparation…
To make these famous curry house curries, you will need to make my base curry sauce first.
This is the base that make curry house curries the smooth flavourful curries they are. My recipe is here.
You might also like to try my pre-cooked chicken and pre-cooked meat recipes. These add another layer of flavour and also make cooking the different curries much faster.
You might also like to try making tandoori chicken tikka and/or tandoori lamb.
Mild Curry Sauce Recipes
Tikka Masala Sauce
Chicken tikka masala is one of the most ordered curries at curry houses around the UK. It's mild and great for kids and those that don't like spicy curries. You can add chicken or the main ingredient of your choice to this tikka masala curry sauce.
Korma Curry Sauce
Mild, creamy and sweet with the subtle flavour of coconut. This curry sauce is very popular with kids and those just starting on their curry journey. You can add chicken or the main ingredient of your choice to this Korma curry sauce.
Pasanda Sauce
Pasanda curries are mild sweet and nutty. This one curry sauce recipe ticks all the boxes. Although chicken is the most popular main ingredient, you can add the main ingredient of your choice to this mild curry sauce.
Chasni Sauce
Some people call it the new chicken tikka masala. All I know is this chasni curry sauce recipe is out of this world delicious. Give it a try with the main ingredient of your choice.
Pathia Sauce
Sweet and sour. This one is so good. The sauce is just a tad spicy but not something that will blow your head off. It is considered a mild curry sauce.
Achari Curry Sauce
This curry sauce is made with pickling spices. Achar means pickle and it is deliciously spicy without being spicy hot. This is pretty close to what some would call a medium hot curry sauce. Feel free to add less chilli if you like.
Keep scrolling to see my medium heat and super hot curry recipes!
I want to make these famous curry sauce recipes as straight forward and easy for you as possible.
So I filmed them to give you a better idea about how each curry sauce is cooked.
They run one after the other and have links to the curry sauce featured too. Each individual curry sauce video is also featured in the recipe if you click on it.
No need to stick to the curry sauce rules!
Just because a curry sauce is listed under mild, medium or spicy, it doesn’t mean you have to stick to that!
A mild korma could be spiced up by adding finely chopped chillies to taste for example. That is the only way I would eat a korma!
A spicy vindaloo could be toned down to a mild curry. Just leave most or all of the chillies and chilli powder out of your vindaloo curry sauce and you will still have an amazing, mild version of the vindaloo.
Bhuna curries are known for being quite dry, perfect for soaking up and eating the curry with naans or chapattis. You can make this curry sauce with the main ingredient of your choice as described in the post. The green one! Spinach curries are delicious. This saag curry sauce recipe has a lot of it. This is one of those that is often made really spice but it is normally a medium spiced curry. Methi means fenugreek and that is what you are going to get with this delicious curry sauce. Lots of fresh fenugreek leaves added to a medium spiced curry sauce. It's one of my favourites. Inspired by the amazing and bright flavours of Sri Lanka, this curry sauce is one you simply need to try. Coconut, curry leaves, chillies... I can't get enough of this one! Keema (minced meat) is delicious added to almost any curry. This version of keema is great in it's own right and medium spiced. Feel free to mix some keema into any of these curry sauce recipes though. If it sounds good, do it! Curry Sauce Recipes - Medium Heat
Bhuna Sauce
Saag Sauce
Methi Sauce Recipe
Ceylon Sauce
Keema Curry Sauce Recipe - BIR Curry House Style
Look no further than the following curries. Again, you can tone down the heat of in these curry sauce if you want to.
Curry Sauce - Spicy HOT!
Madras Curry Sauce
Madras curries are no just famous for their heat but also their amazing flavour. My Madras sauce is quite hot but you can always tone it down some. It's delicious.
Dhansak Sauce
Dhansak sauce is often medium heat but I like them spicy. This curry sauce recipe will get you a curry that is good and spicy but not mind blowingly so. It offers a delicious combo of heat with the essential dhal to calm it all down.
Vindaloo Curry Sauce Recipe - BIR Curry House Style
Vindaloos in the west are a lot different to the original Goan version. If you like your curries nice and hot, this combination of ingredients will do it for you.
Chilli Garlic Sauce
One of my all time favourite curries. If you like garlic and chillies, you've simply got to try this curry sauce!
Lorraine ohanlon
Saturday 11th of February 2023
Hi, have you got a balti curry recipe, thanks
Dan Toombs
Saturday 18th of February 2023
Here you go, thanks - Dan https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2012/08/23/chicken-balti-recipe-from-scratch/
Brian Mulholland
Thursday 25th of February 2021
Hi dan i have just made your Chicken Madras and it was delicious thank you i will follow more of your Indian cuisine Thank you
Dan Toombs
Sunday 28th of February 2021
Thanks for letting me know. Great to hear. Dan
Nate Finch
Sunday 10th of January 2021
I have a silly question... I often get indian "curry" at cheapy mall restaurants that is actually quite tasty, but I have no idea what "type" of curry that would be when they're all given semi-official names. Any help?
Dan Toombs
Monday 11th of January 2021
I'm sorry I can't guess the curry you prefer but if you work your way through my BIR curries I am sure you will recognise the flavours and find your favourites. Thanks Dan