During my trip to Japan, we made a few stops at different coffee shops. Clamp Coffee Sarasa in Kyoto was the most unique of these stops. It was a small place with a very cozy feel. They served coffee and a small selection of breakfast snacks like eggs on toast and oatmeal. The menu was small but everything they made was skillful crafted. Cafe Leblanc in Persona 5 immediately reminded me of that cafe. A small cafe, found on a random backstreet, and an owner with a true passion for his product. Sojiro Sakura focuses his time on perfecting his cup of coffee and his secret curry recipe. His love for food motivated me to making my own Japanese style curry that I would be proud of.
Japanese curry and I have an odd relationship. I’ve always avoided spicy food so I was always wary of any curry. I had my first real curry while in Japan. One taste and I was in love with the complex flavor profile of the spices. My first attempt at making a curry at home was by using some prepackaged roux cubes. The end result was lackluster, bland, and very disappointing. Years later, lots of research, and some extra patience has lead me to a curry that I am truly proud of. This recipe makes roughly eight large servings. My husband and I were eating this curry for a full week and we had no complaints. Not only does it contain several of the secret ingredients that Persona 5 hints are in Sojiro’s curry, it also pairs nicely with a cup of freshly made coffee. My husband really enjoyed the curry with a cup made from fresh tanzanian peaberry beans.
Ingredients:
Roux
5 tbsp unsalted butter
½ cup (75 g) flour
3 tbsp (45 mL) garam masala, ground
1 tbsp (15 mL) turmeric, ground
1 tsp (5 mL) coriander, ground
½ tsp (2.5 mL) cumin, ground
½ tsp (2.5 mL) fennel, ground
½ tsp (2.5 mL) fenugreek seeds, ground
¼ tsp (1.25 mL) cinnamon, ground
¼ tsp (1.25 mL) allspice, ground
1 tsp (5 mL) cayenne pepper, ground
2 tbsp tomato paste
3 tbsp tonkatsu sauce
2 tbsp honey
Curry
2 tsp vegetable oil
4 lbs chicken thighs, cut into bite sized pieces
2 tsp garam masala
1 (375 g) onion, diced
½ (120 g) red onion, diced
2 (10 g) garlic cloves, minced
5 (300 g) carrots, peeled and cut into bite sized pieces
3 (900 g) russet potatoes, peeled and cubed
1 (50 g) apple, finely grated
1 tsp (5 mL) salt
1 tsp (5 mL) pepper
4 cups (1000 mL) chicken stock
1 cup (250 mL) water
2 bay leaves
15g dark chocolate
½ cup (125 mL) greek yogurt
½-¾ cup of cooked rice per serving
Place a deep pot over medium-high heat. Saute the onions and garlic with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil until softened, about 5 minutes.
Season chicken with salt, pepper, and 2 tsp of garam masala. Add the chicken to the pot and cook until browned, about 10 minutes.
Add the carrots, chicken stock, water, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
Add the potatoes and grated apples. Place the lid slightly ajar and simmer for 30 minutes. Occasionally skim any foam that appears.
While the chicken and vegetables are simmering, take the time to make the roux base. In a small bowl, combine the flour and spices. In a pan, over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the flour and spices to the melted butter.
Mix together until the flour has absorbed all the butter. Add the tomato paste, tonkatsu, and honey. Once everything is together, turn off the heat and set aside until the simmering is done.
Take a small portion of the roux and place it in a ladle. Place the ladle in the liquid of the pot and slowly mix in the roux. This will have to be down in several batches. Take your time with this to make sure it mixes well together.
Finally, add the chocolate and yogurt. Keep in mind that chocolate and yogurt will dull some of the kick of the curry, so taste as you do this to reach the spiciness you are going for. Serve with rice.
Leblanc Curry
Ingredients
Roux
- 5 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1/2 cup flour
- 3 tbsp garam masala, ground
- 1 tbsp turmeric, ground
- 1 tsp coriander, ground
- ½ tsp cumin, ground
- 1/2 tsp fennel, ground
- 1/2 tsp fenugreek seeds, ground
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon, ground
- 1/4 tsp allspice, ground
- 1 tsp cayenne pepper, ground
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 3 tbsp tonkatsu sauce
- 2 tbsp honey
Curry
- 2 tsp vegetable oil
- 4 lbs chicken thighs, cut into bit sized pieced
- 2 tsp garam masala, ground
- 1 onion, diced
- 1/2 red onion, diced
- 2 garlic cloves, minced
- 5 carrots, peeled and cut into bit sized pieces
- 3 russet potatoes, peeled and cut into bit sized pieces
- 1 apple, finely grated
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 4 cups chicken stock
- 1 cup water
- 2 bay leaves
- 15 grams dark chocolate
- 1/2 cup greek yogurt
Additional Ingredients
- 1/2-3/4 cup cooked rice, per serving
Instructions
- Place a deep pot over medium-high heat. Saute the onions and garlic with 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil until softened, about 5 minutes.
- Season chicken with salt, pepper, and 2 tsp of garam masala. Add the chicken to the pot and cook until browned, about 10 minutes.
- Add the carrots, chicken stock, water, and bay leaves. Bring to a boil, then reduce to a simmer.
- Add the potatoes and grated apples. Place the lid slightly ajar and simmer for 30 minutes. Occasionally skim any foam that appears.
- While the chicken and vegetables are simmering, take the time to make the roux base. In a small bowl, combine the flour and spices. In a pan, over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the flour and spices to the melted butter.
- Mix together until the flour has absorbed all the butter. Add the tomato paste, tonkatsu, and honey. Once everything is together, turn off the heat and set aside until the simmering is done.
- Take a small portion of the roux and place it in a ladle. Place the ladle in the liquid of the pot and slowly mix in the roux. This will have to be down in several batches. Take your time with this to make sure it mixes well together.
- Finally, add the chocolate and yogurt. Keep in mind that chocolate and yogurt will dull some of the kick of the curry, so taste as you do this to reach the spiciness you are going for. Serve with rice.
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Wow, does this look amazing! I’ve only ever made curry using prepackaged roux, then jazzed it up after with add ons. Somehow making roux from scratch seems so difficult. Your recipe may give me the courage to try it for the first time! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Thanks! I hope you give it a try and can’t wait to hear about your results. 😀
I made this for my husband’s birthday dinner after watching him play through Persona 5 and it was so much more delicious than I hoped it would be!
I did have a question though, is there a good way to make the roux without butter? I’m lactose intolerant but I didn’t let that stop me from eating a bunch haha.
Happy Birthday to your husband! I’m so happy that worked out for you and that you enjoyed it.
Now for the butter question. I can’t say for sure but you might be able to use a butter substitute. I tend to keep a pack of Earth Balance “butter” in my house for friends that keep vegan/kosher/lactose intolerance. It has worked in other recipes but I can’t say 100% for this one. It should work and I can’t think of a reason it wouldn’t. 😀
But will it restore your party’s SP?
I don’t usually make my own roux, but this recipe makes a compelling argument to start.
It’ll be restoring it for a few days. 😀
I didn’t before and now I will never go back.
Never made or had curry before. I really enjoyed this, though I did find it a bit spicier for myself. Boyfriend didn’t think it was spicy at all lol. Persona 5 was my first persona game, and I loved it.
This was a fun recipe, but I did have to get creative for a lot of the spices. We didn’t have the garam marsala so I ended up finding a recipe to make it, but then silly me forgot the cloves and nutmeg for that! So we ended up substituting within our substitute for an insubstituteception… Still loved the way it turned out and hope next time I can find the real spice.
Had to make my own tonketsu sauce and also had to use fennel seeds in place of fenugreek… Disadvantage of where I live… Not a lot of shopping variety…
If you want to tone down the spicy I would reduce the cayenne pepper by half. I am happy the substitutions worked out. A lot of these items (like tonkatsu) can actually be purchased on Amazon if you can do that.
For spices I tend to do ordering from a place in Chicago called the Spice House. They do ship all around the US and Canada only.
Made this last night, are you supposed to use all of the Roux? It ended up taking a very long time to all mix in and the curry was very thick when we did. It turned out amazing though, and I will definitely have to make this again soon.
I made one substitution, because I have Celiac Disease I used all purpose Gluten Free flour, and it worked just fine, so anyone else who needs to eat Gluten Free this recipe works out really well.
I like my curry on the thicker side so the roux recipe is to be all put in. If it was too thick I’d suggest reducing the amount of roux you make. Another option is to add more broth if needed – this would just mean more leftovers. You can’t go wrong with more, right? haha
Also great to know that is works with gluten free flour. Thanks for letting me know! 😀
Don’t be intimidates by the Roux. This is a GREAT curry! Doubling the recipe makes enough for me to have lunch all week!
This is so goood! *_* Thank you so much for posting it! I also had to do a few substitutes – the only cocoa I had was dark, so it isn’t a very pretty curry at all, but it was a great flavor! I only had yellow onions, and I left out the fenugreek seeds, and since I didn’t have cumin, I used chili powder because it had cumin IN it and then left out the cayenne pepper since there were already peppers in that. Had no flour on hand… so I used potato starch! Like the other person I had to make my own Tonkotsu sauce… and I subbed cauliflower for potatoes to leave it a little lower carb. Phew! All that said, this tastes AMAZING! I was worried about halfway through that all these changes would make it weird, but I understand now why the game focuses on having all these different spices and flavors! Thanks for creating this recipe!
I’m so happy this worked out for you. I think that is the beauty of curry and how easily it can be transformed while still maintaining the same level of deliciousness.
I might actually try adding cauliflower the next time I make it cause that does sound tasty.
Hey, I went to Japan in 2016 and Loved it and missed curry so I decided to make it since like nobody sells it here in Florida, After playing persona 5 I learned some things from sojiro like adding Honey and Apple sauce to the curry, I have been making it every other week for like nearly two years now. My friends and family beg me to make it, I gave my recipe to my friend and he got an idea from persona 5 to add like 4 or so oz of brewed coffee to the curry and it was an amazing decision, I could only compare it to walking into lablanc but in your mouth. I also use red bell peppers because I had confused them with the Pickled radishes they use since they look at tasted like red bell peppers, I caramelize the diced onion and red bell pepper. I also use gold curry mix for the base and I use sushi rice for the rice. I also add things like soy, ginger, sake, Worcestershire sauce … just a few tea spoons or so along side the apple sauce/honey/coffee
Nice! It wasn’t until I went to Japan that I gained a true appreciation for curry. I loved all the facts that Sojiro shared in the game and they helped me come up with this recipe. My husband loves to have a nice cup of coffee with a bowl of this curry. He says the combination is just perfection!
Hello, thanks for this, this is exactly what I was looking for. A pretty close replica of sojiro’s master curry!
I’d like to ask a few questims though. What kind of chocolate did you use? Is it cocoa? Or like a milk chocolate like hersheys? You just wrote dark chocolate so I’m not sure. Also the yogurt, does it have to be greek yogurt or does any type of yogurt work? Did you use all 15g of chocolate and 1/2cup of yogurt?
Hey! I used a dark chocolate bar and grated it up. I grabbed a baking bar that was 100% cacao. For the yogurt I imagine any yogurt would work. Just make sure that it is plain and not flavored. I used the total amount listed in the recipe. I do recommend trying it as you add and seeing if the flavor works for you. 😀
Hi Victoria, Just made and ate this delicious curry! My Daughter Heather is a big fan of Persona 5 and Kingdom Hearts. She motivated me to make this. After weeks of going to Asian markets, Walmart and finally an India Bazaar I accomplished attaining ALL the ingredients ! Cut the recipe in half due to it is just us !! Now in search of tall cookie cutters to make those PANCAKES !!!!
I am so happy you got to share this recipe with your daughter and that you both enjoyed it! Best of luck with the delicious pancakes! 😀
I made this recipe almost a year ago for my husbands birthday because we were both super into Persona 5 and loooooove curry. Is there something we could use instead of butter for the roux though? I’m lactose intolerant and am always looking for ways to get butter out of stuff I make.
Thanks so much for this delicious recipe!!
Hey Alli! I’ve used Earth Balance Vegan Butter in a few times to keep dairy out of a meal and it has worked extremely well. My local grocery store typically carries it near all the other butters. They sell them as spreads and baking sticks.
For the butter should I use salted butter or unsalted butter
I typically use unsalted butter. I imagine the salt from the salted butter wouldn’t alter the recipe too much. I’d suggest removing the salt that you use to season the chicken with if you are worried about it becoming too salty.
Just finished making it and it was delicious! Best curry recipe I have ever made. Thank you and Sojiro. This is gonna be enough to last my girlfriend and I a week and then some!
Only comments/substitutions (other than gushing about how fantastic it was): living in Texas I used steak sauce instead of Tonkatsu sauce and, inspired by one of the secret ingredient tips from the game, I added a couple splashes of red wine along with the chicken stock to, in Boss’ words, “add acidity, richness, and depth to the curry [and] also tenderize the meat.”
Easy to make (but a bit time consuming) – my first roux, and it was a piece of cake! Such a wonderful flavor! When I heat up the leftovers I’ll have to get some coffee for the full experience.
I am so happy to hear the recipe worked out. And your substitutions were excellent choices!
I make this recipe when I know I need a lot of leftovers. It does a really amazing job at being heated back up and holds well over time.
Friendly neighborhood teen here. I played P5 about 5 times over the summer, each time striving to beat my play time by greater amounts. I’ve yet to achieve under 100 hours, but here’s hoping for the next time! Sojiro’s curry is a major help in grinding through battles, and I’ve since discovered that it’s also a major help in getting on my teacher’s good side before the first grading period. 😛
I don’t have much to say, I just wanted to comment how much I love this recipe, and give it 5 stars!
Thank you! Persona 5 is a really amazing game. It is always nice to hear from other fans of the game. 😀
Just made it today with my own twist. Came out great.
I am happy you enjoyed it. What did you change up?
I’m not a very practiced cook, but you wrote the instructions so clearly and step by step I decided to give a shot. Despite a couple errors on my part, the curry turned out delicious! I read through the comments to see how everyone else did things, and decided to add a couple splashes of steak sauce on top of everything to taste, along with putting less chocolate and yogurt in since I like it spicy. It was certainly a learning experience, but I already have thoughts, improvements, and corrections I’m eager to apply to the next batch I cook up! Thank you so much for both coming up with the recipe and making so easy to follow!
I’m so happy you enjoyed the recipe! That is the beauty of cooking you can experiment with recipes and fine tune them to your liking. Keep on cooking and you’ll continue to grow in the kitchen. 😀
I’ve made it yerterday and liked a lot. But I think 1 tsp of cayenne pepper is too much, on the next time i’ll put only 1/2. The changes I’ve made was using chicken breasts, not thighs. It isn’t very easy to find the tonkatsu sauce on my country (Brazil) so I used some shoyu. I forgot to buy the tomato paste and didn’t replace it with anything 😛
Sorry about the english and hugs from Brazil! 😀
I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed it! Ya cayenne can be tricky to work with and if it was too spicy just reduce the total.
I had tried to make curry with an instant block. The instant stuff is anemic compared to this! I have made it four more times! This stuff is addictive. I know what I will make when the special edition of Persona 5 comes out.
https://p5r.jp/
One addendum, I often need more a bit more butter for the roux.
I’m so glad you are enjoying it! I can’t wait to see what the special edition ends up being. I really love this series and just want more. Only one more month until we get more information.
This recipe looks delicious! I’m already gathering together all the spices necessary, but I do have to ask: it’s there anything you’d suggest as a substitute for the potatoes? Not many in my family like potatoes, so I’ll likely have to leave them out… Please help if you can, thanks!
Hmmm. You can probably do it without the potatoes if you would like. Some vegetables that I could see working are parsnips, cauliflower, or butternut squash. The cook time on those would vary and I’m not 100% sure how I would approach it. Let me know if you sub it out for something else and how it goes.
So, I’ve made this dish 4-5 times so far. Every time it just gets better and better. Actually made it for my parents last time I visited them. Dad went in with the preface/warning “I hate curry”. I actually had to cut him off after maybe 3 bowls. Thankfully we had enough left over for him to bring to work the next day. HUGE hit. Side note: Spanish rice goes AMAZINGLY well with this curry dish. And now I’m craving it again….
I loved this recipe! My kid was super happy too! Thank you for sharing!
Do you know how to make this spicier? I tried adding more cayenne but that really didn’t do the trick.
I would consider reducing the amount of yogurt in the recipe. Now I can’t speak for sure because I don’t eat food too spicy but here are a few options:
– Add your favorite hot sauce to it
– Try finding a different ground pepper and replace the cayenne (or add on top of it) that is spicier than your current one. The brand you have might be lower on the scoville scale.
– You could try adding one of your favorite chili peppers – I would probably smash it into a paste and try adding it when you add the roux.
Hopefully this helps!
I only just finished Persona 5 (and started Persona Q2) and made this to celebrate. My partner declared that it was the nicest meal I’d ever made. Curry has always been a missing piece in my culinary puzzle, this recipe has filled that gap… and what a way to fill it. Sublimely delicious. Persona Q2 just name dropped Le Blanc Curry, and stared drooling live a Pavlovian dog. Thank you for this recipe!
Glad to have filled that missing culinary gap with this curry. It is a staple here in my house and gets made on the regular!
Haven’t made it yet because I had a quick question, would substituting the chicken out for tofu change the flavor profile too much? I’m planning on making this for a bunch of friends who love the game and spicy food, but they’re vegetarian.
Saw all the other reviews so I gave it a preemptive 5 stars!
Hmmm… from a flavor standpoint I think you would be fine with the replacement. I would be worried with the tofu holding up and not just crumbling in the curry.. Honestly I would highly recommend just removing the protein all together and slightly increasing the vegetables amounts or adding mushrooms instead.
I have a recipe that uses this curry as the base but is complete vegetarian: https://pixelatedprovisions.com/2018/08/14/rune-factory-4-curry-udon/
Hope this helps!
I have to say, I haven’t made a curry from scratch in a long time, and even then I would use store-bought curry sauces.
This curry turned out absolutely superb. I was a bit worried while making it, as it seemed very thin, with a lot of liquid. Often in curries I find you mix in the herbs and spices earlier on. But fear not, as soon as you mix in the roux, the sauce will thicken up and everything will come together smoothly.
Loved this curry. Thank you so much for going to trouble of creating this amazing recipe. It really looks and tastes the way I imagine Sojiro’s Leblanc curry would. Mine didn’t seem spicy at all (with the recommended amount of cayenne) but the flavours were wonderful.
Thank you again!
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! If you decide to make it again feel free to up that cayenne amount if you want it to be a little more spicy. 😀
I’m looking forward instó making this curry tomorrow but I have one single question, how do I make the chicken stock? 😅
You can buy some at your local grocery store. If you can’t find stock you can replace with broth. Either work well. Hope you enjoy the recipe 😀
Thanks!! I was thinking of doing it with the bones of the chicken, but I don’ t know what other ingredients to use. Well then thank you again!!!
Damn, what an amazing recipe. I made it exactly as written here, brought the entire thing to my bar here in NYC, and it was an instant hit! Thanks for this recipe – also, huge fan of P5 and can’t wait for P5R to come out next year!
I’m so happy you enjoyed it! I too can’t wait for P5R. 🙂
So this wasn’t my first time making curry, this was my first time cooking in general! Playing through Persona 5 really made me want to take a crack at this curry and I found your recipe and went to town. My local grocery had everything but the tonkatsu and fenugreek (if you have any substitutes I’m all ears :3).
Anywho, i was super happy with the end result. This is meal prep for the next week and i can’t wait to try it tomorrow morning with a cup of coffee! Thank you for this and I think I want to try some more cooking! This blog will be a frequent fixture for me =]]
Wow you took a big leap for this being your first recipe ever! It is a pretty difficult one. 😀
If you like how it taste as is then that works out. Fenugreek can be replaced with a ground mustard or just completely omitted. Tonkatsu is a Japanese style bbq-like sauce. Looking quickly online there seems to be several homemade options.
This is a big recipe. Maybe 4-6 depending on your portions. Replaced chicken/ chicken stock for beef/ beef stock and it turned out even better.
One thing I should mention, the printable recipe forgets the cumin.
One thing I should mention. The Printable recipe is missing the cumin.
Thank you for catching that! I have just updated the recipe.
sounds very interesting! I have all the ingredients already except for the Tonkatsu sauce as never heard of it? Is it the same as chinese Katsup sauce or sweet soy please? I am in the UK
So there are homemade recipes of tonkatsu sauce – which might be a bit easier to put together. Here is an example: https://www.justonecookbook.com/tonkatsu-sauce-recipe/
Amazing recipe!
My son got persona 5 for Christmas and has been really enjoying it. We had an amazing trip to Japan this year and we’ve both enjoyed exploring Tokyo again in this game. So I was googling to see which locations we could find, and I came across this recipe. I got super mum points for serving him one of his favourite meals from Japan, from a recipe connected to the game!
It tasted as good as the best curries we ate in Japan. The instructions are very easy to follow. All of the ingredients were easy to find in the main supermarkets here in the U.K.
I thought I might need more butter in the roux at first but it all came together well when the tomato paste and honey were added. The only thing I changed was that I added the stock from the chicken pan to the roux pan, one spoon at a time while whisking. When it was more thinned out I added the roux to the chicken pan all in one. That seemed a bit quicker than the method you used.
Definitely our new favourite recipe! And plenty left to portion up and freeze. Thank you so much for sharing!
I am happy to hear you and your son enjoyed the recipe! It is one of my favorites to make. 🙂
I’ve actually started doing the same thing with the roux now. It is muuuuuuuch easier than adding it by the ladle. I should update the recipe to describe it that way.
Do you use sour apples or a more sweeter kind of apple?
I used a granny smith apple. 🙂
We’re on to our fourth pan of this in a month! And it makes so much haha. My son is addicted. He takes it to school now for his lunch a couple of days a week.
I’m enjoying it as much as him but don’t have quite the appetite as a teenage boy!
Oooh this made my day! Happy to hear you all are enjoying it so much.
I can’t find all spice and fennel… what can I use?
It really depends on which spices you are missing. You could use a premixed curry powder (the brand I’ve seen is S&B), but I find those to not be as good as making your own.
I’m back again with another question.
I’m curious, does cooking the roux in a pan change the flavoring in some way? Why isn’t melted butter just added to the rest of the roux ingredients in a bowl and mixed? Is it harder that way to incorporate everything? Asking as someone who does no cooking, but is considering attempting this as it looks delicious. 🙂
Hey Ashli! One of the important reasons for mixing everything thing together over heat is to cook flour. Adding raw flour directly to the other ingredients might not cook it fully leading to a gummy or floury taste. Doing the butter, spices, and flour over allows the flour to heat up and cook through before adding it to the curry. The main role of the flour is to act like a thickener.
Hope this helps.
It’s looking like delicious ! I was a little bit surprised to associate coffee with curry when i saw that in the game for the first time… I was like WTF is that?? Then i tried it with one of my curry and it is actualy an incredible association ! Just Amazing! Who and why did they create that i really want to dig that up ! The creator must be a genious! I ll gladly try your recipe too so i’ll have a comparaison with mine!! If you have any info about that Cofee X curry i would take it too !
My son made this for me. I was a little skeptical, considering he got it from a video game. But it is hands down the best curry I ever had,. This is now going to be the meal my son makes for my birthday dinner every year.
I’m glad to hear it was such a hit! 🙂
Great recipe! The yield is so satisfying, and well worth the work. I substituted extra-firm tofu for chicken so that I could share this recipe with the person who introduced me to the Persona series! I found that by properly draining and cutting the 4 blocks of tofu into domino-sized planks, then pan-searing in batches, on a skillet, (I seasoned this with salt, paprika, and MSG), it made the tofu more resilient and less likely to fall apart in the process. After making the roux, I separated the stock from the solids, and instead mixed the liquid into the roux before reintroducing to the solids, finally bringing everything together with gentle folding motions of the spatula. I was concerned in the beginning about how the tofu would fare in this recipe (especially considering my lack of experience with this protein), but it turned out great, with minimal breakage! When my friend and I sat down to eat it after I’d finished, at 3am, we took our first bite at the same time, and I felt the same satisfaction that I’m sure Joker does when Morgana compliments his cooking! My friend, who I had been having taste-test throughout the recipe, was surprised at how much depth the chocolate adds to the finished curry.
Altogether, we found this to be a wonderful recipe, and one that I look forward to making many more times in the future. And Sojiro is right: this curry is best paired with a proper cup of coffee!
Ooooh! I might have to give this a shot with tofu instead!
This tasted just like the curry I often ate for lunch when I spent 3 months working in Japan. I called my friend over who was there with me and he agreed and liked it a lot. I couldn’t find fenugreek seeds anywhere here in Finland and the store I went to had no tonkatsu sauce so I made my own. I love this recipe and will definitely cook this again. Thank you.
This was a great recipe, and tasting pretty great until I totally goofed up on the chocolate (I think I added 5-6x the amount it called for, but it was also like 2 in the morning when I finished things). I also accidentally burned my onions and I was missing coriander and fenugreek, but even with the accidental overdose of chocolate, it’s not bad…reminds me more of a mole than curry.
I plan on making this again, just not starting at midnight.
One thing I was curious about is that the roux I made thickened up the curry so much that I ended up having to add more water to help try to make things less thick. Any tips for having the curry turn out more like the phone in your photo?
Ya with that much chocolate it would for sure taste much more like a mole!
If the roux ended up being too much I’d recommend just cutting it by a 1/4th. That should help. I haven’t had that issue and honestly adding additional liquid will help fix it from being too thick. 🙂
The recipe works very well I’ve been using a variant of it for over a year now. Overall easy to get all the spices except the tonkatsu. My Asian market is the only place to get it but they’re closed due to coronavirus. I make mine way spicer than this though, I feel like not only is it better taste wise but it also seems closer to the portrayal of the curry in the game and anime.
This was SOOOOO DELICIOUS!!! I was literally wolfing it down XD
Though it still had a bit of a kick to it even after halving the pepper and an extra 4 grams of chocolate. My mom and I could still eat eat it (we really cant stand spicy food) but we werent quite expecting it.
My only complaint would be how long it takes. It took me and my mom working together the better part of two hours to make it… but we got plenty of leftovers, so I’d say worth it
Just made this tonight, and it was fantastic! My husband isn’t usually a fan of curry, but he loved this one, and is already nagging me to make up the grocery list for next week’s batch. Thank you for the recipe!
I changed a few things up because I have to avoid gluten:
– In place of wheat flour, I used white rice flour.
– I used S&B curry powder, and used a larger ratio of curry compared to the garam masala because of supply issues.
– The aforementioned supply issues prevented me from either making my own tonkatsu sauce or using worchestershire sauce, which… just couldn’t find any gluten-free versions. Instead I used soy sauce.
– For the chocolate, I used raw cocoa powder.
– There are no carrots. Literally no carrots. Anywhere. I cried a little.
– the only meat we had on hand in a decent quantity was pork shoulder, so…
While the pork is good–I’m definitely eating these leftovers all week!–I think chicken and beef are a bit more suited to curry because of their flavors. /shrug It’s still incredibly tasty, so I’m not complaining. We’re going to try it with coffee for lunch tomorrow. 😀
Much better this time round! Like proper curry! Helps that I was better prepared and did not add so much dark chocolate as to effectively turn in into a mole.
Habanero sauce makes it spicy enough for most mortals.
My Boyfriend is a huge Persona Fan. We have signed art on the living room and as weve been playing Royal we looked and found this recipe!
I have never had Curry before and this was amazing! So good. Boyfriend loved it and said he definitely wants to make it again. We dis it with stew beef and beef broth and used your recipe, and hats off to you! It was so good!
I’m excited to try this! Has anyone used an Instant Pot for this dish? I cook a lot of Indian curries in it and they always turn out really great.
The curry came out really good, except when I added the yogurt. After that, it really took out the kick and flavor I liked while making it… I had to re-add a lot of spices to bring it back to the taste level I had it at.
Yes that will happen for sure. If you do make the recipe again, you can probably skip the yogurt completely or add less. 🙂
Thank you for sharing your version of this curry. 1st I made it, I followed a bad video that didn’t include the roux made correctly. 2nd try using this recipe along with tips from comments, beef version, and it turned out wonderful! I think I forgot fennel seed, fenugreek and apples.
I made this curry this afternoon (with pork) and it was delicious, perfect with a cup of coffee just like Sojiro advertised! 😀 I might have put too much yoghurt as it wasn’t spicy at all but the flavours were really great.
Thank you for the recipe!
Glad you enjoyed it! If you want to keep it on the spicier side, I would reduce the amount of yogurt in the recipe. 🙂
Fantastic recipe, make it all the time 🙂 thank you for this one
Hi! Thanks for the recipe, Persona 5 is one of my favorite games, if not my favorite. Currently waiting for my copy of Strikers now, in fact.
I wanted to ask you some things about the recipe though. How should the final product taste? I’ve made it several times at this point, but it’s also the only curry I’ve ever made so I don’t know what exactly it should taste like. I also ask because I’m not sure how the curry pairs with coffee based on how it comes out. Also, if you have any recommendations for coffee flavors to try, please let me know!
Thanks again for the recipe!