curry Gravy

[samitestar]

I bought a can of curry gravy, dragonfly brand, from Thailand. What do I do with it? Can it be used interchangeably like curry paste?

Here's the ingredients; Coconut milk, onion, garlic, soy bean oil, ginger, curry powder, corn starch and salt.

[Bacardi1]

"evansp60"'s personal opinion notwithstanding, these canned curry pastes & sauces can be WONDERFUL. While I do sometimes enjoy making Thai & Indian curries from scratch, I also keep a complement of sauces & concentrated pastes in my pantry & fridge at all times. (The Indian "Patak" brand is excellent.) While not familiar with the "Dragonfly" brand, I'd assume that it's meant to be used as is, with the addition of your favorite veggies &/or meat/poultry/seafood additions. Taste it and experiment from there. I nearly always do a little doctoring of commercial sauces/pastes, tasting frequently, & have yet to end up with a disappointing meal. If you don't care for it, not much lost. But if you do, then you have a nice addition to your pantry for when you want to put something together quickly.

(If you enjoy spicy curries, you'll want to add some chili peppers, ground cayenne, or hot curry powder, since I don't see anything very spicy in the ingredient list.)

[samitestar]

That's what I was hoping for, something fast and easy, plus at $1, wasn't much of a risk.

[Harters]

"The Indian "Patak" brand is excellent"

Patak is a British, not Indian, brand.

Yours

The Pedant

[Bacardi1]

Sorry, but I just finished reading the book "Curry - The Story of the Nation's Favourite Dish", & "Patak" was founded by & is still run by the Pathak family, who hold the illustrious title of "Britain's oldest Indian food family".

Yes, the company is in Britain, but the family owners are 100% Indian, & all of their products originated from authentic family recipes. The "Patak" brand is most definitely Indian.

[Harters]

Sounds like a tin of ready-to-use cooking sauce, in which you'd simmer your other ingredients, with no need for additional spices, etc (allegedly). Personally, I don't use them, but they are extremely popular.

I would give it a taste and see if needs additional spicing to suit your tastes (I suspect it will as seems like a bottom end of the market generic sauce, rather than one intended to try to replicate a particular style of curry.

[chefj]

No it is a prepared ready to use sauce. You just add what you want to it and Voila you have a curry.
Can not say what quality and flavor but a curry.

[samitestar]

Cool, thanks for the info, I'm going to make eggplant curry, nom nom.

[paulj]

Thai curry paste is usually added to coconut milk, with the addition of green onions, ginger, and fish sauce.

For a start you could use a Thai curry recipe, using all the solids, and this for the liquid and spices. It's unclear from the picture of the can what style of curry this is.

Looks like Dragonfly is a major brand in Thailand, so presumably someone there thinks this is worth buying, even if the other poster doesn't. It does not look like something that was created for the American market.

http://www.ustrading.com/en/products/...

[samitestar]

Haven't tasted it yet, but I know I've seen recipes that said to add curry gravy and so when I saw this I thought, 'aha, gravy!'

I think that might be the idea, to add it in place of the coco milk.

[Querencia]

I will add that when cooking in a holiday rental in England I relied heavily on a canned curry sauce---I think the brand was Sherwood, some such name---that was delicious and handy.

[Harters]

Sharwood. A generally OK brand that has a good range of styles

[evansp60]

Take the can back to the store and get your money back. Take said money and buy fresh ingredients as per a recipe you've looked up on the net for a Thai curry. Make said recipe from fresh ingredients and enjoy a meal that will taste worlds better than any crap out of a can.
Seriously!

[paulj]

Have you tasted this gravy?