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Supplementary Recipes (Curry Powders, Curry Paste, Restaurant Spice Mixes) => Supplementary Recipes Chat => Topic started by: Bobby Bhuna on February 28, 2008, 06:14 PM
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Coming in at 3 quid, I finally gave in and tried this 'high end' curry powder from my local. I'm glad that I did as I really enjoyed using it in my Madras. Quite spicy but still aromatic. Here are some images for anyone who is interested.
Has anyone else tried it?
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/gallery/3840_28_02_08_6_09_37.jpg)
(http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/gallery/3840_28_02_08_6_10_01.jpg)
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Hi Bobby
Is that lumps of leaf (methi or curry) floating on the surface of the powder .. or is it bits fallen in from the foil seal when you opened it?
SnS ;D
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Probably the curry leaves SnS
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Is that lumps of leaf (methi or curry) floating on the surface of the powder
That's Curry leaves SnS.
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Looks a little more authentic and home ground than your regular curry powder. Looks similar in texture to the bazzar mix, that was quite chunky.
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That's what I was thinking, especially considering that the main ingredient is red chilli.
Check out the old woman on the front making the divers 'OK' sign - that means it must be good 8)
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Yeah I think your right bobby, almost as good as the woman in the parsi cooking dvd I have, the way she magically appears in this plastic apron is comedy gold :D
This is the one, I picked it up from a garden center for 2 quid, not very good but worth a watch if you can stop yourself from laughing all the way through it.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Cooking/dp/B000M7FSEE (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Indian-Cooking/dp/B000M7FSEE)
oops I drifted of topic again, back to the bazzar mix I found that it was very overpowering and like this one it was mainly chili powder.
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I found that it was very overpowering and like this one it was mainly chili powder.
Does anyone else find it odd that this is the mild version and yet the main ingredient is chili? I also notice that the tub of curry powder the old Indian (or actually SriLankan so I'm told) woman in the picture is holding is totally different. I particularly like the 'The right choice' written at the top right hand side. Buying any other brand is plain morally abhorrent!
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I found that it was very overpowering and like this one it was mainly chili powder.
Does anyone else find it odd that this is the mild version and yet the main ingredient is chili? I also notice that the tub of curry powder the old Indian (or actually SriLankan so I'm told) woman in the picture is holding is totally different. I particularly like the 'The right choice' written at the top right hand side. Buying any other brand is plain morally abhorrent!
You should already know the answer to this Bobby ::)
Just because the main ingredient is chilli powder, it doesn't have to be hot. There are many chilli powders that are so mild you wouldn't even notice them in your curry.
Paprika is a chilli powder - it's just that it's made from a very mild chilli pepper (Pimento chilli at only 12000 SHU). Authentic Degghi Mirch is also mild (but very red) and comes from the Kashmiri chilli - another mild chilli.
The main ingredient in your curry powder could be any one of a number of mild chilli powders (not the chilli powder as you know it).
Regards
SnS ;D
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You should already know the answer to this Bobby ::)
Right, where's the emoticon for raising my middle finger while blowing a raspberry? ;D
Just kidding SnS, now I do recall that being mentioned at some point, although I did not know (or rather never thought about) Paprika being a Chili - but I'll certainly never forget now ;D
That said, if they differ so widely, why isn't the particular variety of chili then specified in the ingredient list of packaging? I wanted to know which chili my pack of Heera chili powder contains but the packet just lists chili. Perhaps it contains more than one variety?
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That said, if they differ so widely, why isn't the particular variety of chili then specified in the ingredient list of packaging? I wanted to know which chili my pack of Heera chili powder contains but the packet just lists chili. Perhaps it contains more than one variety?
There are hundreds of chilli varieties and if you include the hybrids, this goes into thousands. There are over 3700 varieties on www.thechileman.org and the list is still growing.
Many of the main varieties are each have different names depending on which part of the world they come from. It would cause chaos if each packet of chilli had to have the variety shown. I also understand that many commercial chilli powders are blended using various chilli powders.
Anyway, your Suryaa packet is quite precise to which chillies they've used in the curry powder ... it's red chilli.
Okay, as it's Friday, how do we actually spell chilli, chili or chile?
It would appear that general convention for proper useage is this:-
Chile - refers to the plant or pod
Chili - refers to the dish containing meat, beans and chiles (chili con carne)
Chilli - refers to the commercial spice powder made from chiles (note the plural)
However, the origin of the word is the Nahuat Indians from Southern Mexico and Central America in the 15th century .. and they called the plant chilli? (therefore plural = chillies)
SnS ;D
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Anyway, your Suryaa packet is quite precise to which chillies they've used in the curry powder ... it's red chilli.
I don't understand. Are you being sarcastic, or is 'Red Chilli' a variety of Chilli? (and by this I do mean Chilli and not chile :P) Aren't most Chillies red or thereabouts?
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Anyway, your Suryaa packet is quite precise to which chillies they've used in the curry powder ... it's red chilli.
I don't understand. Are you being sarcastic, or is 'Red Chilli' a variety of Chilli? (and by this I do mean Chilli and not chile :P) Aren't most Chillies red or thereabouts?
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:( Smart****
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:( Smart****
Seriously Bobby. Most packets will print the ingredient as "chilli" or "chilli powder", but yours specifically says RED. This probably means it includes a very red chilli such as the Kashmiri chilli, which is primarily for colouring rather than heat .. hence the "not so hot" taste.
Regards
SnS ;D
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such as the Kashmiri chilli
Don't you mean 'the Kashmiri Chile'? ;)
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such as the Kashmiri chilli
Don't you mean 'the Kashmiri Chile'? ;)
Whooooops - didn't I tell you I'm a decendant of a Central American Nahuat Indian tribe?
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Whooooops - didn't I tell you I'm a decendant of a Central American Nahuat Indian tribe?
Lol - fantastic response ;D