Your favourite supermarket thai curry pastes

[Harnser]

Tesco has recently (since I last bought a jar, anyhow) reformulated their green thai curry paste to a gloopy flavourless mess, with the main ingredient being "green pepper". Bleurgh.

Which pastes that are available from regular shops do you rate?

I find the Sainsburys rendang/panang good. Got the Lidl ones in the cupboard to try next.

 

[Raikiri]

THe Lidl one I tried was absolute trash.

Asda sometimes have Mae Ploy which I find to be very good.

 

[droyden]

May ploy, cook it off for a few min cook your veg and meat put in your tin of coconut milk, palm sugar and fish sause to taste. Lime leaves to finish, job done

 

[Martynt74]

I don't mind the Waitrose ones, however my wife just calls me lazy as curry pastes are really easy to make. We tend to freeze ginger/lemongrass for them as you don't use it often.

 

[the-evaluator]

Another vote for May Ploy. We've usually got a few different pastes in the fridge and lime leaves in the freezer.

 

[Ryan-3]

Sainsbury's stock the red and green pastes from Thai Taste that I find are very good. Very close to what I've had from my local restaurant here.

 

[arknor]

I used the asda ones a few times and they were fine but it says to use like 1 spoon or something.

I just used 2 jars for like 5 litres of curry sauce.
btw most of them contain fish extract or whatever it is so check the ingredients if your a vegetarian.


BTW if you use coconut cream it's way better than using cocunut milk (also get the one with as less additives as possible, you will notice the difference)

 

[Harnser]

my wife just calls me lazy as curry pastes are really easy to make. We tend to freeze ginger/lemongrass for them as you don't use it often.

Interesting I might try it. I rate highly the pastes from https://www.randgcurrypaste.co.uk/ which are tastier than those stocked by the major supermarkets, and homemade should turn out similar.

 

[JBuk]

May ploy, cook it off for a few min cook your veg and meat put in your tin of coconut milk, palm sugar and fish sause to taste. Lime leaves to finish, job done

This

having had a few green curries in various places around Thailand i find this is pretty close to the authentic taste

 

[2004typer]

Asda sometimes have Mae Ploy which I find to be very good.

This - nothing else compares, use Chaokoh Coconut Milk as well.

 

[Scam]

This - nothing else compares, use Chaokoh Coconut Milk as well.

Yeah that coconut milk is decent. Shame it's like gold dust make for some reason? It's been getting increasingly hard to find coconut milk without sweeteners and additives nowadays

 

[Harnser]

It's hard to find ones with >55% coconut extract. Tesco are now selling one that's 25%!

 

[2004typer]

Yeah that coconut milk is decent. Shame it's like gold dust make for some reason? It's been getting increasingly hard to find coconut milk without sweeteners and additives nowadays

Local Chinese cash and carry is the best place (but aware this is a supermarket thread). I get mine from Chi Yip in Chadderton (Near Oldham) if any peeps are nearby and wondered where it's plentiful.

 

[NickK]

Not so much sauce but Spice Tailor seems to be pretty good - the byriani, cool low and slow for an hour before adding the rice then cook for 15 minutes.