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Not So Good Massaman Curry

Ok, so yesterday I decided to make Massaman curry from scratch. And I'm wondering, what went wrong?

I first prepared the curry paste, which may have been a bit too watery. The directions say to include the water the chilis soaked in to rehydrate them, but the recipe doesn't tell you how much water to soak them in. But that was a problem easily fixed, because the water cooks down.

Main issue: The directions say to cook the meat and veggies in the paste. Then, you set them aside. Then you make the sauce by combining coconut milk, tamarind paste, cardamom pods, and sugar. Then when you add the veggies back in, there just isn't enough flavor from the curry paste. The paste is barely coating the meat and veggies and doesn't mix in with the sauce. I am pretty confident the curry paste called for too much shrimp paste (which is quite pungent) and the tamarind made it bitter. I think it also called for too much of that.

I was so proud of myself making it from scratch. I took picutres, buit since I didn't even like it, I won't bother taking up space with them.

And now I am very sick with the flu or something and can't make my rum cake. :-(

Posted by Hannah at January 16, 2005 12:25 PM