Rogan josh is a curry dish. In Farsi Rogan means clarified butter (commonly called Ghee), Josh means heat or passion. Hence the name Rogan Josh means meat cooked in clarified butter at intense - fried meat curry.

There are many variations to the recipie but all include meat, onions, oil or ghee and a mixture of spices such as paprika for its red color, aniseed, cloves, cumin, cinnamon, ginger, garlic, and many others. Tomatoes re common in this dish in UK "indian" restaurants.

• Korma / Kurma - a mild, yellow coloured curry, based on almond and coconut powder
• Curry - a low to medium heat, gravy-like sauce, now commonly server with potato chips (Fries)
• Dupiaza / Dopiaza - medium curry the word means "double onion" referring to the boiled and fried onions used as its primary ingredient.
• Pasanda - a mild curry sauce made with cream, coconut milk, and almonds.
• Rogan Josh - medium, usually with tomatoes, meat and butter or oil
• Balti - a curry cooked in a Balti (A deep metal cooking bowl or bucket.) usually eaten from the dish using Naan bread as a scoop
• Bhuna - medium, thick sauce, some vegetables
• Dhansak - medium/hot, sweet and sour sauce with lentils
• Madras - a fairly hot curry, red in colour, heavy use of chilli powder
• Pathia - similar to a Madras but with lemon juice and tomato purée
• Jalfrezi - onion and green chilli based thick sauce
• Vindaloo - the classic "hot" restaurant curry, a favorite for the boys night out.
• Phaal - extremely hot. Some UK curry houses also make a hotter version called tindaloo.

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