Emiko Davies’ Japanese curry rice (kare raisu) – recipe

The Australian-born cook and author shares her recipe for a thick, fragrant Japanese curry – with one secret ingredient Japanese curry – kare raisu in Japanese – is unlike any “curry” you might know from south Asian countries. That is partly because of the nature of yoshoku (western-influenced) cuisine but also because it made a roundabout route to Japan, via the British Royal Navy during the Meiji Restoration, a period when India was under British colonial rule. It arrived in the form of Bri...

By Emiko Davies