I've seen a Madras cooked at a Restaurant

[Yousef]

Hi,

I have now made two batches of this sauce the first i was unhappy with and threw away, i was in a rush and could only find Patak's Curry Paste, which just does not work, plus i only boiled the onions and green peppers for 40 mins, big mistake.

The second batch i made i boiled the onion and green pepper for 1.5 hours and i found the Patak's Balti Paste in Salisbury's and added this in along with the fried garlic, ginger and spice mix.
This made all the difference plus with the addition of some salt i am pretty happy with this as a curry sauce, there is a certain richness to it.

I will be trying the madras recipe shortly and provide feedback.? From all the learning to date it does appear that there is no 1 curry sauce .

Stew

[Nessa]

Re:Pataks pastes. Ive watched the restaurant vans load at the Indian Cash n Carry near me, they nearly always have some big jars of Pataks pastes. eg. Kashmiri Masala, Balti paste.? Pataks pastes are legendary and would enhance most currys Im sure.
But as said above, beware the jars of Pataks ready made sauces - they really are disgusting, I read a poll on the net, of ready made sauces and out about 6 sauces, - every taster placed Pataks at the bottom of the list.

Even worse are the Pataks frozen curry meals - absolutely disgusting in every way!? I know their sauces are rank too so I'm wary of anything bearing the Pataks label, however it seems their balti paste must be ok judging by how often it's name crops up.? It seems I must grit my teeth and buy some of this stuff!

Great posts again Pete - the curry sauce seems very simple so I'll give it a try soon.

[Mark J]

The Pataks pastes IMHO are great and thats what they should have stuck to.

[Vinda looo]

Re:Pataks pastes. Ive watched the restaurant vans load at the Indian Cash n Carry near me, they nearly always have some big jars of Pataks pastes. eg. Kashmiri Masala, Balti paste.  Pataks pastes are legendary and would enhance most currys Im sure.
But as said above, beware the jars of Pataks ready made sauces - they really are disgusting, I read a poll on the net, of ready made sauces and out about 6 sauces, - every taster placed Pataks at the bottom of the list.

Even worse are the Pataks frozen curry meals - absolutely disgusting in every way!  I know their sauces are rank too so I'm wary of anything bearing the Pataks label, however it seems their balti paste must be ok judging by how often it's name crops up.  It seems I must grit my teeth and buy some of this stuff!

Great posts again Pete - the curry sauce seems very simple so I'll give it a try soon.