Munchies:
Feel you. But hey! Figuring it out is half the fun.
I will say sometimes it's not missing a spice. Rather, it's all about how you use the spice. For example, if you take your spices and heat them in a skillet on low, you unlock a bolder flavor.
Sweetfattie:
Oh god, toasting the spices. Somehow I always either burn them or don’t cook them enough. One of these days I want to take an Indian cooking class and get the teacher to show me exactly how it’s done. It’s probably practice and repetition, but I can only screw up dinner so many times before I go back to something I know I can do. 😅
What I do it put it on low, put the spices in a cold pan, and rake them off when I can smell them more strongly.
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