Chinese curry sauce recipe?

ethansmum

I found a great recipe on here for Indian take away style curry sauce, but what about chinese takeaway curry sauce. I definately has a different taste and has less tomato. Has anyone any recipe suggestions please?

seraphina

I don't know a recipe for the sauce but I do buy the concentrate used to make up the sauce. Our local corner shop (for some reason!) stocks little tubs of a paste which you mix with water and heat to get the proper chinese curry sauce. It's not expensive - under a pound for a tub that will make litres of the stuff.

If you have a chinese supermarket or wholesaler near you they should do the concentrate.

smokey112

our local butchers sells a mix also - it is the same as the restaurants - we add a touch of 5 spice to ours when making

Ang
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elvis_bloggs

smokey112 wrote:

our local butchers sells a mix also - it is the same as the restaurants - we add a touch of 5 spice to ours when making

Ang
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Right, just booked a seat on the Manchester to Glasgow train, tell Mr Butcher to save a packet of the curry sauce for me.

smokey112

Elvis

In money saving style I could post you a packet if you want - you can also get the mix in most Chinese Supermarkets

Ang
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flea72

Bisto do Curry Granules (in pot similar to gravy granules) - it tastes just like chinese curry.

By the time OH has gone to the chinse to pick up our takeaway, ive boiled the kettle, microwaved some mushrooms, made the sauce, and voila, saved myself the usual £3.50 i pay at the takeway

Flea

ethansmum

Sadly we have no chinese shops around here. I'll keep a look out in sheffield though- thanks for the tips!

patchwork_cat

There are a couple on line
http://www.wingyipstore.co.uk/find.php?search=curry&criteria=product
I use the cooks original curry sauce from a store in leeds and
http://www.hoohing.com/

elantan

hubby loves chinese food we even did a course in chinese cookery ...however he has yet to make a curry that tastes like it does from the shops ..we have tried loads of different things pastes etc but have had no joy yet ...can anyone help? thanks

emmie1234

Hiya, don't know how to make it from scratch but there is some stuff called mayflower chinese curry that you can buy from farmfoods and heron freezer shops.. It is sold on the shelves - not in the freezer compartments. Though you can buy it already made up in the freezer section I think. It comes in granule form and this mix will do for about 3 or 4 curries for two people. I have used this before and it tastes exactly the same as curry from the chinese. HTH

kaya

Thats because everything you buy from the chinese is covered in monosodiumglutomate, a chemical used in some asian cuktures to "enhance" the flavour of the food, so unless your gonna coat your own food in it you cany replicate a takeaway very easily!