🔥How To Up Your Curry Game

The Easy VS The Traditional Way

Sawaddee ka 🙏🏼

I’ve been telling people for years that it is absolutely okay to buy your curry paste…as long as you buy a good one (here are my recommendations). Most Thai people buy it, too!

BUT there is a lot of value and benefits in making your own IF you can find the right ingredients and have the right tools.

🌶 So in the lastest video, I shared 2 methods for making Thai red curry paste: the easy way and the hard-but-traditional way.

Here are some benefits of making your own:

• You can control the heat level. Flavour and heat are bound up together in curry pastes. So if the curry paste you buy is too hot, you have to use less, which means you also have to sacrifice flavour.

• You can control the salt. Many commercial pastes are quite salty because salt helps preserve the paste. But this also limits how much paste you can add, which again, limits the amount of flavour you can add.

• It just tastes better. With the right ingredients and a good recipe (ahem, mine for example 😉) your curry WILL taste better. Most of the time I use store-bought paste cuz #momlife. But yesterday I made a curry using my homemade paste, fed my husband without saying anything, and immediately he commented that it was “better than usual.”

Video: Easy VS Traditional Way to Make Curry Paste

I demoed red curry paste in this video because it is the most versatile one, but the process is the same for making other pastes, you just use different ingredients.

If you’re interested in making other curry pastes, also try:

• Green Curry Paste

• Yellow Curry Paste

• Massaman Curry Paste