JediMonsoon
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Does anyone have any recommendations for curry sauce in a jar. I’m sick of my local supermarket selection and imagine there will be someone on the internet somewhere selling an amazing product?
Currying Favour
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Rubberduck
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If you like chinese curry, goldfish brand is excellent and exactly like the chinese takeaway. For Indian curries at home I use youtube and do the spices from scratch 😀
Ah, curry. The food of the Gods imho... but it took me a long time to reach that reckoning.
Story time...
So when I was a kid, growing up in Slough (possibly one of the most multicultural parts of town... I mean, our next door neighbours were Welsh folks and the old mum simply didn't do English and my school had maybe 10-15% white kids) Anyway, my bestie from nursery school onwards was a Sikh fellow. His folks had come over from India, I guess some time before his eldest sibling was born. Neither parent had much grasp of English but his dad took as one of his own. I spent a LOT of time at their house, often staying over, and they always had big cooks on. Pots and pots of all sorts, which might have been interesting... except the fact that at age curry reminded me of vomit (sorry) though of course, I never said so, settling for chapati's and such instead.
As an aside here, I should mention I was an odd kid. I hated, was even made physically ill by even just the sight of some things that are the norm for most folks... such as jam, porridge, custard, dried derivatives of grapes aso. I was even put off peanut butter and milk for years simply cos I witnessed either used in a gross way or... yeah, you get the point (still can't bear even the sight, scent or feel of jam without gagging and retching btw... for me it comes under the category of 'the devil's work') On the other hand, I was nuts about broccoli. Like I said, odd kid.
Fast forward a decade and half, and I had been in a LDR with an Indian girl who was studying in Canada, at UBC in Vancouver. Well, one thing led to another and we ended up getting married, as you do. Along that road, my mum mentioned that maybe it was time that I stop being a cissy and got used to curry... as y'know, that might just be on the menu a fair bit. Well, fair enough... it wasn't like I was unused to spicy food, being raised with quite a bit of variety by mum (who loves curries) So I tentatively tried some, a cheapy microwave meal... basic nondescript/unnamed prawn curry deal. Who'd have known that finishing that I went out that same day to buy more.
As it happened, not so very long after the girl and I were wed... in India too... so I actually got an early intro to the real deal curry wise, with a live traditional band playing and paan etc.
And so to now. Indian wife has been ex wife (thank the Gods) for 15 years but I could still happily eat curry at least half the meals of the week. Could even drink some of the sauces as a beverage. The top one for me though... Dansak. Not Indian or subcontinental per se but a perfect blend of my next favourites in one.
Story time...
So when I was a kid, growing up in Slough (possibly one of the most multicultural parts of town... I mean, our next door neighbours were Welsh folks and the old mum simply didn't do English and my school had maybe 10-15% white kids) Anyway, my bestie from nursery school onwards was a Sikh fellow. His folks had come over from India, I guess some time before his eldest sibling was born. Neither parent had much grasp of English but his dad took as one of his own. I spent a LOT of time at their house, often staying over, and they always had big cooks on. Pots and pots of all sorts, which might have been interesting... except the fact that at age curry reminded me of vomit (sorry) though of course, I never said so, settling for chapati's and such instead.
As an aside here, I should mention I was an odd kid. I hated, was even made physically ill by even just the sight of some things that are the norm for most folks... such as jam, porridge, custard, dried derivatives of grapes aso. I was even put off peanut butter and milk for years simply cos I witnessed either used in a gross way or... yeah, you get the point (still can't bear even the sight, scent or feel of jam without gagging and retching btw... for me it comes under the category of 'the devil's work') On the other hand, I was nuts about broccoli. Like I said, odd kid.
Fast forward a decade and half, and I had been in a LDR with an Indian girl who was studying in Canada, at UBC in Vancouver. Well, one thing led to another and we ended up getting married, as you do. Along that road, my mum mentioned that maybe it was time that I stop being a cissy and got used to curry... as y'know, that might just be on the menu a fair bit. Well, fair enough... it wasn't like I was unused to spicy food, being raised with quite a bit of variety by mum (who loves curries) So I tentatively tried some, a cheapy microwave meal... basic nondescript/unnamed prawn curry deal. Who'd have known that finishing that I went out that same day to buy more.
As it happened, not so very long after the girl and I were wed... in India too... so I actually got an early intro to the real deal curry wise, with a live traditional band playing and paan etc.
And so to now. Indian wife has been ex wife (thank the Gods) for 15 years but I could still happily eat curry at least half the meals of the week. Could even drink some of the sauces as a beverage. The top one for me though... Dansak. Not Indian or subcontinental per se but a perfect blend of my next favourites in one.
I’m necroing this thread as I’ve just been watching a Man Vs Food episode where he’s faced by increasingly spicy chicken wings.
I’m curious to know, how did you get on with this sauce, @moosEh?
3qtrsamericano
Bright Spark
Find a good Pakistani restaurant and order a Nehari with a few naan's.
Will change your lives. 😎
Will change your lives. 😎
jamiephillips909
Godlike
I love indian food but it just affects me so badly become bloated and unable to move its a curse ill never give it up so ill just keep on suffering
Never got around to trying to hottest one I bought.
I tried their beda**ed and hotmama both were very spicy
. the hotter of the two I used in a paneer chilli dish. Very tasty.Curry is the best food in the known universe! I absolutely love it, nothing else comes close
I'm very much of the 'as hot as I can get it' school, so always a vindaloo when I eat out or get a takeaway. I've officially long since given myself asbestos tounge though as I don't ever find them very hot at all. I'm a veggie and it makes it harder to find a really nice one I think. A lot of places just focus on making the sauce as hot as possible but forget to make it taste nice so you end up with a hot tomato sauce that doesn't taste of much.
I have curry at home too, using pre-bought sauce. Started out with Patak's, then moved onto Sharwoods and then later onto Loyd Grossman sauces, which are by far my favourite. Patak's seem pretty bad now and Sharwoods merely okay. I really like the Loyd Grossman ones, except the Vindaloo one which is awful. So I tend to have Balti, Madras and Bhuna, all of which are really nice, and chuck loads of chillies in
Morrisons did a nice Goan Vindaloo sauce, but they keep discontinuing it. ASDA do a similar one which is fairly decent but not as good. There's a few other supermarket own brand sauces that I've tried, some are alright but most are terrible. If anyone has any recommendations, I'm all ears!
I'm very much of the 'as hot as I can get it' school, so always a vindaloo when I eat out or get a takeaway. I've officially long since given myself asbestos tounge though as I don't ever find them very hot at all. I'm a veggie and it makes it harder to find a really nice one I think. A lot of places just focus on making the sauce as hot as possible but forget to make it taste nice so you end up with a hot tomato sauce that doesn't taste of much.
I have curry at home too, using pre-bought sauce. Started out with Patak's, then moved onto Sharwoods and then later onto Loyd Grossman sauces, which are by far my favourite. Patak's seem pretty bad now and Sharwoods merely okay. I really like the Loyd Grossman ones, except the Vindaloo one which is awful. So I tend to have Balti, Madras and Bhuna, all of which are really nice, and chuck loads of chillies in
Morrisons did a nice Goan Vindaloo sauce, but they keep discontinuing it. ASDA do a similar one which is fairly decent but not as good. There's a few other supermarket own brand sauces that I've tried, some are alright but most are terrible. If anyone has any recommendations, I'm all ears!
JediMonsoon
Gold Level Poster
Any recommendation for prebought sauces please let us know. I’m sure there must be a small start up or someone making a fantastic sauce that until now is generally unknown.
jamiephillips909
Godlike
Heard nothing but good things about a site called spicebox but have never tryed them myself
If you’re willing to put a bit of effort in, I’d highly recommend this book. You need to make a bit of an initial spend on the getting all the spices and ingredients together to make the initial base sauce, but the results are impressive. The base sauce recipe also makes LOADS, so you can freeze portions of it and then when you want to make a curry, just defrost what you need and the dish you want to have a go at will only take about half an hour to make.
Just to state outright, they’re not authentic dishes but instead are pretty damn accurate versions of the curries you’d get from a restaurant or takeaway in the UK.
Just to state outright, they’re not authentic dishes but instead are pretty damn accurate versions of the curries you’d get from a restaurant or takeaway in the UK.