House Java Curry Medium Hot 185g — the medium-hot grade of House Foods' Java Curry, a robust Japanese curry roux with caramelised onion, roasted garlic, miso and the aroma of cardamom. One 185g box makes about 9 servings.
About House Foods
House Foods traces its origins to Urakami Shoten, a business founded in 1913 in Osaka, Japan. It launched Java Curry — a more grown-up, spice-forward curry roux — in 1968, alongside its flagship Vermont Curry. House Foods America Corporation makes and distributes these boxes for the North American market.
What is Japanese curry roux
Japanese curry roux is a solid block of seasoned curry base — fat, flour, curry spices and savoury seasonings pressed into cubes. You simmer meat and vegetables, then dissolve the cubes in to make a thick, glossy Japanese curry sauce.
How to use & enjoy
Curry roux is a cooking ingredient rather than a ready-to-eat sauce: the solid block is melted into a simmering pot of meat, vegetables and stock, where it thickens the liquid into a rich Japanese-style curry sauce. The finished sauce is classically ladled over steamed white rice as karē raisu — one of Japan's most common everyday home-cooked meals.
The same roux is behind several Japanese favourites: katsu curry, with a crumbed, deep-fried pork or chicken cutlet on curry rice; curry udon, thick udon noodles in a curry-flavoured broth; and kare pan, the panko-crumbed, deep-fried curry bun sold in bakeries and convenience stores. Curry rice is traditionally served with a side of Japanese pickles — most iconically fukujinzuke, a tangy, often red-dyed relish — to cut through the richness of the sauce.
Ingredients
Vegetable Oil (Palm Oil, Canola Oil, Soy Lecithin), Wheat Flour, Salt, Corn Starch, Curry Powder (Spices, Coriander Seed, Dried Tangerine Peel), Sugar, Monosodium Glutamate, Defatted Soybean, Caramel Color, Roasted Onion Powder (Onion Flake, Dextrin, Natural Flavor), Sauteed Curry Paste (Curry Powder [Spices, Coriander Seed, Dried Tangerine Peel], Palm Oil), Garlic Powder (Dried Garlic, Defatted Soybean, Glucose, Maltose), Sauteed Onion Paste (Onion Powder [Onion Flake, Defatted Soybean], Palm Oil), Glucose, Spices, Yeast Extract, Soy Lecithin, Sucrose Fatty Acid Esters, Sesame Paste, Onion Seasoning (Onion Extract, Soy Sauce [Soybeans, Wheat, Salt], Dextrin, Yeast Extract, Corn Starch, Garlic Extract, Salt, Natural Flavor), Glycerin Fatty Acid Esters, Onion Powder (Onion Flake, Soybean Powder, Maltose), Citric Acid, Malic Acid, Fermented Wheat Seasoning (Wheat, Yeast Extract, Dextrin), Roasted Garlic Powder (Garlic Flake, Dextrin, Natural Flavor), Garlic Extract (Garlic, Sweet Potato Syrup, Salt), Disodium Inosinate, Lactic Acid, Maltose, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Sucralose.
Allergens
Contains soybeans, wheat, milk and sesame. The manufacturer's US "Contains" statement lists soybeans, wheat and milk; sesame paste appears in the ingredient list, so we declare sesame as well. Refer to the package for the most current allergen declaration.
Nutrition (per 21 g serving; about 9 servings per 185 g box)
Calories 110 · Fat 8 g (10% DV) · Saturated Fat 4.5 g (22% DV) · Sodium 900 mg (39% DV) · Carbohydrates 8 g (3% DV) · Fiber <1 g (3% DV) · Sugar 2 (includes 1 g added sugars, 3% DV) · Protein 2 g · Calcium 10 mg (2% DV) · Iron 0.4 mg (2% DV) · Potassium 80 mg (2% DV).
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