S&B Golden Curry Medium Hot 220g is Japanese curry in solid block form — a roux of wheat flour, oils, curry powder and seasonings that melts into water to make a thick, glossy, mildly spiced curry sauce. Medium hot (中辛, chukara) is the middle of the three Golden Curry grades and the one most Japanese households buy. One 220 g box makes 12 servings.
About S&B Foods
S&B Foods Inc. (エスビー食品株式会社) traces to 1923, when its founder Yamazaki Minejiro succeeded in producing Japan's first wholly domestic curry powder. That blend became the company's red-can curry powder, and S&B still names it as the spice base at the centre of Golden Curry's flavour. Golden Curry itself has been one of Japan's standard supermarket curry roux ranges for decades.
What is curry roux?
Japanese curry is not made from a powder stirred into liquid. It is made from a roux — a firm block of flour, fat and spices, scored into portions — that is broken up and dissolved into a pot of simmered meat and vegetables at the end of cooking. The flour thickens the sauce as it melts, which is why Japanese curry is closer to a thick stew than to the thinner curries of South and Southeast Asia.
How to use & enjoy
S&B's own directions, printed on the box: stir-fry the meat and vegetables in oil over medium heat for about 5 minutes; add water and bring to the boil, then reduce the heat, cover and simmer until tender, about 15 minutes; turn off the heat, break the curry blocks into pieces and stir until completely melted; simmer a further 5 minutes, stirring constantly, and serve hot over rice or noodles. For a full box S&B suggests around 2 lb each of meat and onions with carrots and potatoes, and 5 US cups (1,200 ml) of water.
Ingredients
Wheat flour, vegetable oils (palm oil, rapeseed oil), salt, sugar, curry powder, flavour enhancer (621), colour (150a), acid (296), pepper, chilli pepper, garlic, flavour enhancers (627, 631), celery seed, mustard.
Allergens
Contains wheat. This product also contains celery seed and mustard. For the full declaration as printed, please refer to the product packaging.
Nutrition (per 100 g, as printed on the Australian label)
- Energy: 2,000 kJ
- Protein: 6.8 g
- Fat, total: 26.3 g
- — Saturated: 15.5 g
- Carbohydrate: 53.5 g
- — Sugars: 10.0 g
- Sodium: 4,460 mg
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Japanese curry roux blocks, medium hot · ゴールデンカレー 中辛 220g · S&B Golden Curry range.
