Rogan Josh Curry Powder is a signature dish from the Kashmir region of India. It is a savory, mildly spicy stew typically made with lamb.

All about Rogan Josh Curry Powder, Spice Blend

What it’s like, and how to make it

HeatMild
CuisineIndian & south & asian
Best forBraising, slow cooker, quick weeknight
Goes inCurry dal, rice grains, dips sauces
WithLamb, beef, chicken
What’s in itpaprika, turmeric, garlic, cardamom, cinnamon, cumin, cloves, coriander, ginger, Kashmiri chile powder

How to use it

Lamb's best friend. Brown lamb shoulder in batches, bloom two tablespoons of this in the same pot, add yogurt and crushed tomatoes, and braise for two hours. The cardamom and cinnamon come through in the finish. Also brilliant on roasted eggplant or mixed into a shepherd's pie filling for a Kashmiri twist.

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  • Rogan Josh Curry Powder spice, shown over a chalk-and-watercolour illustration
  • Illustration: Rogan Josh Curry Powder with the Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar in the 1600s
  • Illustration: Baingan Bharta, made with Rogan Josh Curry Powder
  • Illustration: Shepherd's Pie, made with Rogan Josh Curry Powder
  • Illustration of Rogan Josh Curry Powder in The Tea & Spice Shoppe bag and jar, with the Shalimar Bagh in Srinagar in the 1600s
  • Rogan Josh Curry Powder - The Tea & Spice Shoppe
  • The signature dish of Kashmir, India is widely considered to be rogan josh. Traditionally made with lamb, creating this slow-stewed meal is as easy as adding our Rogan Josh Curry Powder. The flavors of ginger, garlic and chiles blend with fennel and cinnamon to recreate the classic dish.

What’s in it

Every herb in the blend, and where to read about it on its own.

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    Paprika

    Capsicum annuum

    Dried sweet red peppers, ground. It is in twenty-eight products here mostly for colour and body — paprika gives a rub or a stew its red without adding heat, and it carries a soft, sweet pepper flavour that fills in the gaps between louder spices....

    Sweet red pepper, no heat, vivid colour; the smoked one adds deep oak smoke

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    Turmeric

    Curcuma longa

    A ginger-family rhizome, boiled, dried and ground to a powder so yellow it stains everything it touches. In sixteen products here it is doing two jobs: colour, which is most of why it is in a curry powder or a mustard, and a gently bitter,...

    Earthy, warm, gently bitter and peppery, with a musky root smell; it colours everything gold

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    Garlic

    Allium sativum

    A bulb, dried and broken down to three different coarsenesses, and the single most common ingredient in this catalogue — forty-three products carry it. Granulated is coarse and blooms slowly in hot oil; minced is visible pieces that plump up in a sauce; powder disappears...

    Sweet, toasty and savoury; deeper and rounder than fresh garlic, without the raw bite

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    Cardamom

    Elettaria cardamomum

    Green pods holding small black seeds, from a ginger-family plant of the Western Ghats — floral, resinous and eucalyptus-cool, quite unlike anything else in the cupboard. It is the third most expensive spice in the world after saffron and vanilla, which is why it is...

    Floral, resinous, eucalyptus-cool and sweet-warm; the main volatiles are terpinyl acetate and eucalyptol

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    Cinnamon

    Cinnamomum verum, C. burmannii, C. loureiroi

    The inner bark of a laurel tree, peeled, dried and curled into quills. Three different trees are sold under the one name, and the shop carries all three: Ceylon (Cinnamomum verum), the soft, papery, floral one from Sri Lanka; Korintje (C. burmannii) from the Kerinci...

    Sweet, woody, warm — Ceylon floral and citrusy, Korintje smooth and familiar, Saigon bold and fiery-sweet

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    Cumin

    Cuminum cyminum

    A small ridged seed with a deep, earthy, faintly smoky smell — cuminaldehyde is the compound doing most of it. Cumin is one of the oldest travelling spices there is, and in this catalogue it is one of the busiest: twenty-three products carry it, which...

    Deep, earthy, warm, a little smoky and bitter, with a musky edge

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    Cloves

    Syzygium aromaticum

    An unopened flower bud, picked and dried until it looks like a small nail — which is where the name comes from, via Latin clavus. Cloves are the loudest spice in the cupboard: eugenol makes up somewhere between 45 and 90 per cent of the...

    Hot, sweet, numbing and medicinal-warm

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    Coriander

    Coriandrum sativum

    The round, ridged seed of the same plant whose leaf is cilantro — and it tastes nothing like it. Where the leaf is green and divisive, the seed is warm, citrusy and floral, closer to orange peel than to anything herbal. That is why plenty...

    Warm, citrusy and floral, a little sweet — orange peel and pepper together

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    Ginger

    Zingiber officinale

    The universal connector — ginger appears in more products than any other ingredient in the collection. The dried root is chemically distinct from fresh ginger: drying converts gingerols to shogaols, which are about twice as pungent, and that is why dried ginger tastes deeper and...

    Pungent, warm, slightly sweet, citrusy (fresh); warm, mellow, deep (dried)

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    Kashmiri Chile

    Capsicum annuum

    The colour chile of North Indian cooking. Kashmiri chile is used for the deep red it gives a dish rather than for heat, which is why a rogan josh or a tandoori marinade can be brilliantly red and still mild — and why substituting a...

    Mild, with a deep fruity sweetness; the point of it is the red it gives, not the heat

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What it goes with

A rich lamb rogan josh wants a tea that can keep up. Our Assam's bold tannins cut right through the yogurt and tomato. For something more aromatic, try our Darjeeling — its muscatel notes harmonize with the cardamom and cinnamon.

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