Topic: Pataks Madras paste

[Vinda looo]

Can't beleive Ive just bought some of this. Has anybody used it and if so what's it like.

[King Prawn]

Vinda...

Try it and let us know 

KP(V)

[mike travis]

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

[Vinda looo]

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.

[Chilli Prawn]

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

[Curry King]

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

[Chilli Prawn]

How long did it take you to recover CK ;D

[Curry King]

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

[Mark J]

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)