Homemade Mild Yellow Curry Powder Recipe

We are a big fan of curry around here, so we make it often. It’s easy to mix up a batch of this homemade yellow curry powder recipe instead of buying it ready-made.

First, let’s be clear. The curry we make here isn’t traditional Indian food. Or Thai food. It’s generally a combination of ingredients that we have on hand, combined with flavorful curry powder and coconut milk. It’s never the same thing twice.

Actually, maybe that IS how clever home cooks in India make their curry — as a way to use up what’s on hand.

In any case, we make it a lot, as my son is dairy free and curry is delicious made with coconut milk, an ingredient that makes our curry lean a little more to the Thai side of the curry spectrum.

What is Curry Powder?

You might think that curry powder is straight out of Indian cuisine, but this is not so. In Indian cuisines, a curry is a sauce or gravy served with vegetables or meat. The curry seasoning that’s familiar to so many of us actually has quite a long history that goes back to the British colonization of India.