Topic: garlic ginger paste - what proportions of each ?

[Derek Dansak]

Hi, I have been making my ginger garlic paste with equal amounts of each, recently using my blender. However i am not sure if i should reduce the garlic and have around 70 percent ginger? How do you guys and gals make your garlic ginger paste? do you add any other ingredients into it as well? cheers DD

[Bobby Bhuna]

Hi, I have been making my ginger garlic paste with equal amounts of each, recently using my blender.

Good effort mate, I've never bothered doing it fresh. Is it worth doing?

Cheers,

BB.

[matt3333]

Hi, I have been making my ginger garlic paste with equal amounts of each, recently using my blender. However i am not sure if i should reduce the garlic and have around 70 percent ginger? How do you guys and gals make your garlic ginger paste? do you add any other ingredients into it as well? cheers DD

Hi DD
I always blend mine fresh, with about 80:20 garlic ,ginger.  I presume the average BIR does the same due to cost, happy to be proved wrong if so what make are they using.
Matt

[joshallen2k]

For anyone who blends their own, what do you use to blend it? I'm guessing you can't make much, as it wouldn't keep for very long in the fridge. The bottled stuff has some sort of preservative ingredient that lets it last in the fridge. In a blender I would have thought you have to add a lot of g/g to make it "blendable".

-- Josh

[joshallen2k]

Oh and I'd figure garlic/ginger paste is a 50:50 ratio. Whenever I've seen a recipe call for an uneven split it usually specs out the garlic and ginger separately.

[matt3333]

Hi Josh
I use a revel spice grinder which is suitable for wet and dry spices.
The 80:20 mix is what I add to a curry dish, if making a base then more like 50:50.
Matt

[Yousef]

Good link http://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=1192.0

Stew

[Derek Dansak]

Hi Bobby, I am not sure if its any better than the shop stuff. But its a good way to use up ginger and garlic that have been lying around! I just wizz it up with some water in blender. Its thinner and more watery than the shop stuff, so is great for CR0 usage!

[Bobby Bhuna]

I usually get a specific brand of garlic / ginger paste (the name escapes me) but since I found the Indian cash and carry near my flat, I tried a new one.

My flatmate and I agree that it's much better (he's been nicking it for non curry use and prefers it to his previous haul). The old one that's not so good is really gloopy but the most recent one is almost solid.

I used to swear by the gloopy kind for the frying stage but I was wrong for sure. That said, I still prefer the gloopy kind to the tube kind.

Sorry if I'm getting off topic!

[Derek Dansak]

The one jar i would really like to stumble across in an indian grocery is "magic BIR paste" tee hee  ;D. Or would that ruin our fun?!!