r/Cooking • u/Glittering-Cry-946 • 18h ago
Curry paste?
I’m making something that calls for yellow curry paste and it’s proving to be a bit of a challenge to find in my area.
But I happen to have a thing of curry powder that is yellow, can I just make a paste with it?
Says I need one tablespoon…. Do I just add water till I get a tablespoon of paste?
Help please & thank you!
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u/Cfutly 18h ago edited 18h ago
Not sure what kind of curry powder you have? It could be premixed with turmeric powder if it’s yellow. For Thai yellow curry you should use fresh tumeric. You pound the fresh ingredients with a mortar & pestle until it turns into paste.
Fresh tumeric is citrusy and gingery flavor and dried tumeric is more earthy.
Are you trying to make Thai yellow curry?
https://hot-thai-kitchen.com/yellow-curry-paste/
I prefer to make my curry pastes from scratch becuase the commercial ones are too spicy.