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Title: Grinder for making a chilli paste
Post by: alanbuchanan on April 23, 2020, 09:01 PM

Hello

I want to home-make a Laal Mas dish which uses Mathania chilli paste. I would like to have a go at making the paste or something close to it.

Never made my own spices or ground anything before, so I am on the lookout for a grinder. Lots of cheap stuff on Amazon which doesn't look like it would do anything like what I'm after.

Is paste something you generally just buy pre-done?

Otherwise can anyone recommend a decent grinder to make chilli paste from?

Title: Re: Grinder for making a chilli paste
Post by: Peripatetic Phil on April 23, 2020, 09:56 PM

As long as you avoid a coffee grinder (which isn't intended to have any liquids in it), and go for a blender (which is), you should be fine.  Lidl is listing a 600W combination set (https://www.lidl.co.uk/en/p/kitchen-essentials/silvercrest-hand-blender-set/p31320) at the moment for less than