Pinoy Style Pork and Chicken Curry

You know , it , it's my go to it is my , it is Map ladies and gentlemen , which for those of you who are vegetarian , that is not good news because map pie contains shrimp paste .

Our worst is Thai kitchen which is not unexpected because Thai kitchen I think is made for not Thai people .

It's they don't sell it in Thailand for example .

So they're probably wanting to make this milder and weaker for those who are not used to spice our third one which was decent .

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Came out pretty good .

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Came out pretty good .

This one also quite weak .

I have a theory about what this is messy .

Yes , I the reason I had a feeling this was messy was because the paste was also quite wet .

Um So these two were probably the ones that I didn't have to deglaze at all because the paste already had so much moisture in it , which by default means that they also have less seasoning and spices and herbs in it .

And this one is Rod .

There you go .

In conclusion .

All really good options .

If you want no shrimp paste , you wanna go with a because and both have shrimp paste .

Not surprisingly also my top pick because shrimp paste really does add umami and um and , and so um that was not a surprise if you are somebody who really needs things to be mild and you want more room to adjust .

You wanna be able to like add more paste without making it too strong or too salty .

Then these two will be your go to .

Now for our next test , I'm gonna take my top pick and my bottom pick and I'm gonna try to make the best curry I could possibly make with them .

That means that for the Thai kitchen one , I will add more paste .

I will probably add more fish sauce than I will with this one .

I wanna bring them to their full potential and see .

Yes , on a standardized test , it's not performing as well .

But can we work around it ?

Like can we just add more stuff and it'll be just as good as this one in the end ?

Let's find out for the curry .

I'm gonna bring our curry sauce to a boil and then add a little bit of palm sugar and some bamboo shoots .

Once that comes back to a boil , I'm gonna add some chicken breast , which has been marinating in just a little bit of fish sauce .

I'm gonna cook it for just a couple more minutes until the chicken is done .

And then I'm going to taste for seasoning .

And I wanna bring this to its optimal level .

And for my app , I had to add just a little bit of fish sauce and then off the heat and stir in some Thai basil .

And that is it .

Now , this is a basic chicken curry that is very similar to my green curry recipe , which I will link to below in case you wanna try this at home for the Thai kitchen , I'm gonna start by first sauteing more curry paste and I'm basically doubling it up once that's got its two minutes of sauteing .

And then I repeat the same process as with the other curry .

But for this one , I had to add quite a bit more fish sauce to bring it up to the optimal seasoning level .

So they look very different .

Here is our Thai kitchen and here's our maloy Thai kitchen is so much redder because I had to add more paste .

So what this tells me is that they put a lot of chilies so that the color is there but maybe there's less of everything else .

So that's why the flavor is so weak .

Um And if you didn't know you look at this automatically , you're gonna be like , yeah , that looks better , right ?

But let's find out and to make this representative of real life , I'm gonna have it with rice who has curry without rice .

Let's taste our good one first just as a benchmark because we're trying to determine whether we can bring this up to the level of our past of choice .

Mhm That good , good level of spice .

I would call this mild .

It might be medium for some people .

But I think this is a good like crowd pleaser level .

It's very red .

There's like no heat like kid friendly .

So this is very interesting .

Is it bad ?

No .

Is it a meal I would enjoy for me ?

It , it's a little , it's still a little weak for somebody for a kid .

This would be perfect because it's not spicy at all .

It's , it's still , it's kind of weird because it actually feels richer and thicker .

Like the the texture of the curry is thicker , which tells me that there's more solids in it .

Now we doubled the paste .

That would make sense .

There should be more stuff in it but it still tastes weaker than this one .

So I don't know what the stuff is that is in here , but it's not really delivering the flavor that's in this and it could it be shrimp paste ?

I wouldn't say so because the paste that , that didn't have shrimp paste seems to be able to deliver the a good flavor as well .

But that might be one of it .

So overall , my conclusion is if you can get me or one of the other 22 , top two , this one is , is workable but still like it's , even if I tried my best , it's still not as good , not as flavorful as this one .

But if you're very sensitive to spice or you're cooking for kids , maybe this is the one to choose .

So the takeaway for me is that there's a big range between brands and when you are cooking , using store bought curry paste , you cannot throw your judgment out the window .

You have to taste and adjust and be prepared to add more if needed if you happen to be using one of these .

So I would say go with our top three if you can , but it's not a deal breaker .

If these are your only options , just know that you need to do some , do some extra work .

If you're following my recipes , I'm usually using either a or as a test .

Um is close enough that if you're using that , you probably don't need to adjust if following my recipes .

Other people's recipes , who knows , who knows what they are using .

So this is why you have to use your judgment and that is it .

I hope that was interesting and informative .

It was definitely interesting for me if you have any opinions at all about curry paste that you've used in the past , another brand that we didn't cover , do share with us in the comments below .

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