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Title: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Vinda looo on January 24, 2007, 09:32 PM
Can't beleive Ive just bought some of this. Has anybody used it and if so what's it like.
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: King Prawn on January 24, 2007, 09:51 PM
Vinda...

Try it and let us know  ;) :D

KP(V)
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: mike travis on January 24, 2007, 10:06 PM
Have tried most of Pataks sauces and found them to be OK but not as good as Curry's I am now making thanks to this site. Definitely nothing like a BIR Madras........

                                             ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Vinda looo on January 24, 2007, 10:15 PM
Theres a difference between sauces and pastes. I would never go near their sauces. Have you tried their pastes as some people use them, along with some takeaways and resaurants apparently, for some reason I still can't understand why they would use Pataks but who am I to say.
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Chilli Prawn on January 25, 2007, 10:56 AM
I have tried them...and .... Yuuuuch, except for their Tikka paste and Kashmiri paste.  Ferns and Simtom are the best for me.  A lot of BIRs around the Midlands use Simtom I am told and a few down here seem to be moving that way.

CP
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Curry King on January 25, 2007, 11:46 AM
I can't stand Pataks pastes or sauces, some restaurants so use the pastes for marinades and the like but I'm not so sure about them going into the currys.  I once had a curry from somewhere in brighton and could actualy taste the stuff :-X
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Chilli Prawn on January 25, 2007, 11:48 AM
How long did it take you to recover CK ??? ;D
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Curry King on January 25, 2007, 11:55 AM
Don't get me wrong i'm sure it is used a lot by BIR's but this paticular curry actualy tasted of it.  There was a guy back in the in2curry days who told us that a certain BIR method was to use a 50\50 mix of yogurt and pataks tandoori paste, a tablespoon of this mix went in every curry.  You couldn't taste it but it added a certain zing, I don't use it at all now though.

cK
Title: Re: Pataks Madras paste
Post by: Mark J on January 27, 2007, 06:46 AM
I think there is a recipe for a sheek kebab on here that uses pataks madras paste, I have some and used it to make that recipe and it was great (Laynes I think)