Curry Powder

Curry Powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition based on South Asian cuisine. Curry powder, and the contemporary English use of the word curry are Western inventions and do not reflect any specific Indian food, though a similar mixture of spices used in north India is called garam masala but curry powder is actually closer to the Tamil sambar powder. The word curry is widely believed to be a corruption of theTamil word kari, variously meaning something like sauce, cooked vegetables or meat.