Here's one more use for curry paste (although it does involve coconut milk) th-cam.com/video/PAmctHjPAlQ/w-d-xo.html And here's a link to what I think is a very cool website :) www.patreon.com/shaq
i have never been able to find makrut limes or their zest in any freezer section of any asian grocery store near me :( I was able to find leaves though
For a while now a standard in my breakfast rotation has been a big hunk of sourdough toast, a thin slather of curry paste, topped with a healthy dose of apricots jam. A not too sweet fruitiness paired with a nice heat and savory goodness. It rules.
Speaking of peanut butter.. Toss some noodles with some curry paste and peanutbutter for some thick and saucy noodles, add whatever extra veg or protein you want for an easy meal. The "just peanuts" peanut butter types are better for this application IMO, and it also works great with almond butter.
"This is not a video about how to make curry paste", still shows you everything you would realistically need to make a basic curry paste in the first 20 seconds
regarding the sausage recipe: In thailand there's a dish called phad phet (spelling is off my bad) but it's basically minced meat sautéed with curry paste with added garlic, chilis, fish sauce and whatever else you want, usually finished with chiffonade basil and eaten with rice. a great recipe if you want to forgo the patties and loads of fun to study fry if you have a wok
Every video you put out is fantastic, and everyone in the comment section has already praised you for this one (rightfully so), so I’ll just take a second to say that I am SO grateful you don’t start your videos with “HEY GUYS! IT’S YA BOY SHAQ, WELCOME BACK TO MY CHAAAANNEEEEL!!” and follow with a drawn out, unnecessary intro. I love that you immediately get to the point and give us info we could actually use.
@@eZU4nQsWN9pAGsU38aHj it absolutely does. you know what else is good is garlic/olive oil ice cubes. you usually use garlic with oil, garlic goes bad quickly, so you blend it up and fill an ice tray with that delicious liquid
Thank you for introducing me to the idea that food components can be swapped out/replaced with alternatives, and that most foods have a balance of different components. I used to think cooking was boring, but I got into cooking about 6 months ago because of channels like you and Chef Jon Kung. Thank you! Edit: Thanks for the likes! Best community award goes to you guys :)
@@BigBootyBatman really? i’ve watched him and i didn’t really feel that about him. i think he makes some good points, especially about fusion food and mixing cultures together in cooking.
I might not be making curry paste anytime soon but I love the lesson of critical thinking and versatility in the kitchen. I have a homemade teriyaki sauce that makes a great base for potsticker dipping, I just dump in black vinegar until it’s thin enough and add Sri racha until it’s spicy enough. This way I don’t have to wait until it’s teriyaki time again to get use a sauce that required special ingredients.
You kind of covered it with the egg, but I have a Jamie Oliver cookbook where he just rubs curry paste on a chicken breast before pan frying it which was great when I tried it. I also wonder about using curry paste with some neutral oil as a seasoning for roasted potatoes or vegetables. I guess the main lesson here is that we can treat curry pastes as a much more flavorfully deep spice mix that we can add to anything. :) Love the video
I used this video for inspiration for some Thai chicken meatballs, where I added fresh curry paste to the meatballs before rolling them up, searing and then cooking in a coconut red curry. It came out absolutely fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation and idea!
My favourite is fishcakes. About equal amounts of lightly steamed white fish and mashed potato. Add egg to bind and flour to get dryness/wetness ratio correct. Add Thai curry paste (especially one that has lemongrass) and it just brings it home. Make thin and shallow fry. Hell yeah.
Does the white fish need to be partly or fully cooked through initially? I don't know how to steam it / don't think we have the equipment to do it ha ha
@@Metallijosh100 I usually go fully cooked but if it's not quite there it doesn't matter as it's about to get deep fried. I guess you could gently boil it instead, you'd just need a good/fine strainer
Just swining by a half year later to say the chicken + [fatty medium] + [herb and spice blend] has saved my weeknights. It's such a great modular. As someone who eats greek yogurt daily. I've dabbled with curry paste, old bay, gochujang, garam masala, and an adovada spice mix, all of which have made chicken thighs divine, and can even save an overcooked chicken breast. Tl;dr: this is so far the most impactful video on my day-to-day cooking
Fry a couple teaspoons in olive oil, add lemon zest, deglaze with vodka, add pasta water, add pasta, emulsify into a creamy sauce, add parmigiano and basil
You saved me with the upload as I had curry paste lying around. (Of course I made a coconut milk curry with it yesterday). I am going to try out your recipe and make some zucchini lentil fritters with curry paste. Thank you.
Nice one! Take this curry paste marinated chicken thighs, preferably with yogurt. Add a tbsp each corn and rice flour each per lb for a pancake batter consistency after marination. Deep fry. Deep fry scallions - quick dip Take some of that oil and fry more curry paste in small pan at buffalo sauce consistency. Toss all of it together and enjoy.
Awesome advice and the shrimp toast thing blew my mind. I’m sure I ate something like that and just never considered what the hell it actually was. There’s a Thai cooking lady on TH-cam who tested out loads of common curry pastes people can buy in the west and the one in the thumbnail was underwhelming. The one you made from scratch looks next level, but there are other store brands that are good in a pinch 👌
Totally. I haven't made my own curry paste yet, but I like Mae Ploy yellow curry paste so much that I always sneak a bite when I use it. It comes in a fairly large tub with the curry in a plastic bag inside (so you have to cut the corner and squeeze it out).
I've just started getting into cooking Thai and got some (purportedly) nicer curry paste from an Asian market. This is extremely helpful to revisit - thanks for this.
@@jessl1934 Yes!! One of my favorites. Not time consuming and only a handful of ingredients and you have magic! Moroccan fish head soup with Harrisa is delicious! If I have Western company I don't tell them a fish head was involved 😂
Y E S, I got some berbere spice from an Ethiopian shop and mixed it into butter to make this stupid delicious compound butter. I was instructed to save it for a VERY special occasion roast chicken, the kind that will make a guy wanna put a ring on it after he tastes it. On me. Not the chicken.
Shaq. Great video. I've had homemade curry paste, but I've never actually made it my self. I'll give it a go. Another AMAZING use is Mac & cheese. I added red curry paste to my cheese sauce a few years ago for Thanksgiving and it was an absolute success. It added a nice spicy kick and gave the Mac some depth. Highly recommend for this Thanksgiving!
I actually love mixing a bit of mayo, natural peanut butter, curry paste, and lime. I'll add chickpeas, peas, thinly slices cabbage, onion, carrot, and cilantro. Makes an amazing salad for lunch. You could use egg m equal parts of each, or mix it up and mess about.
If by sleeping on curry paste you mean I have so much of this specific brand from your thumbnail in my cubbard that I could make a bed and physically sleep on it, you got me.
Make a beurre blanc and wisk in some thai curry paste at the end Have the sauce with a nice piece of fish (e.g. salmon or trout), some greens and new potatoes.
could you make a video on gochujang and doejang? Super long shelf life pastes for very reasonable price, full of flavor but I find myself not using them as much as I believe I could
I randomly used Thai curry paste in a lentil soup last week with a ton of celery seed it all worked really well together. Anyway I'd never used curry paste outside of Thai curry
I thought curry paste is rough unless you cook it out a bit first (like tomato paste), so I’m surprised to hear about mixing it with mayo to make a sauce for fries.
1 TSP curry paste + 1 TSP peanut butter + a little pasta water off some soft rice noodles = the best hangover lunch i've ever managed to get going in under 5 minutes.
Haven't watched yet, but I'm saving this for later, because I have that exact jar from the thumbnail, with my other spices/sauces, still unopened, and I have no clue what to do with it
I don't have a food processor and only a tiny mortar and pestle, so sadly I would only be able to make a tiny amount of curry paste at a time while the process is tiring and hard on my wrists (artritis). Otherwise I'd be cranking out fresh pastes non-stop!
Every time I watch Shaq I feel like he somehow is seeing me through the screen and is just barely tolerating me. I'm being negged into liking his content
In my experience, that lime zest is subtitutable with just any lime zest. Its lime leaf, and curry leaf used in other Thai dish thats hard to sub. Also, shrimp paste and fish sauce is not 1:1 sub, shrimp paste had much deeper taste and stronger funk. As for galangal, imho you can even omit it entirely and most won't notice. Coriander roots - garlic - white pepper is the must have base for Thai cuisine imho. Thats just a thought.
Doubtful this will get seen, but worth a try. Could you make curry paste without lemon grass? I have a severe lemon grass allergy (epi-pen levels. Even if it's being cooked with I have a severe reaction). Is there a substitute for lemon grass or is it optional? In my house we love the flavor of curry, but I've turned into a mild buzzkill because of my allergy.
Here's one more use for curry paste (although it does involve coconut milk) th-cam.com/video/PAmctHjPAlQ/w-d-xo.html
And here's a link to what I think is a very cool website :) www.patreon.com/shaq
i have never been able to find makrut limes or their zest in any freezer section of any asian grocery store near me :( I was able to find leaves though
Where'd you get that salmon crudo recipe?
For a while now a standard in my breakfast rotation has been a big hunk of sourdough toast, a thin slather of curry paste, topped with a healthy dose of apricots jam. A not too sweet fruitiness paired with a nice heat and savory goodness. It rules.
we'll call it keegan curry toast
Username checks out for sure
Rhat does sound interesting!
That sounds fucked up dude
@@ababababaababbba this loser has never had chutney
Speaking of peanut butter.. Toss some noodles with some curry paste and peanutbutter for some thick and saucy noodles, add whatever extra veg or protein you want for an easy meal. The "just peanuts" peanut butter types are better for this application IMO, and it also works great with almond butter.
What a great bunch of ideas! I also think curry paste could be used in falafel, it would be a good way to change up their flavour.
Fancy seeing you here!
That would be amazing! Love your channel, its been so nice to learn about of the delicious dishes that I used to eat not knowing how they were made.
"This is not a video about how to make curry paste", still shows you everything you would realistically need to make a basic curry paste in the first 20 seconds
well, it's not like he's wrong. what was this video about?
It's crazy how much higher quality your content is compared to foodtubers with way higher subscriber counts.
regarding the sausage recipe: In thailand there's a dish called phad phet (spelling is off my bad) but it's basically minced meat sautéed with curry paste with added garlic, chilis, fish sauce and whatever else you want, usually finished with chiffonade basil and eaten with rice. a great recipe if you want to forgo the patties and loads of fun to study fry if you have a wok
Phuck that sounds delicious and super easy
Every video you put out is fantastic, and everyone in the comment section has already praised you for this one (rightfully so), so I’ll just take a second to say that I am SO grateful you don’t start your videos with “HEY GUYS! IT’S YA BOY SHAQ, WELCOME BACK TO MY CHAAAANNEEEEL!!” and follow with a drawn out, unnecessary intro. I love that you immediately get to the point and give us info we could actually use.
He bottles all that energy up all year and let's it out on April first
"ice cube tray in the freezer full of ready-to-use curry paste" number one quality of life improvement in my kitchen
Yeah! My mom does this when she buys tomato paste in large jars. That stuff usually spoils
@@eZU4nQsWN9pAGsU38aHj it absolutely does. you know what else is good is garlic/olive oil ice cubes. you usually use garlic with oil, garlic goes bad quickly, so you blend it up and fill an ice tray with that delicious liquid
I love how this guy’s videos have zero bullshitting. Other TH-camrs need lessons from this guy.
Thank you for introducing me to the idea that food components can be swapped out/replaced with alternatives, and that most foods have a balance of different components. I used to think cooking was boring, but I got into cooking about 6 months ago because of channels like you and Chef Jon Kung. Thank you!
Edit: Thanks for the likes! Best community award goes to you guys :)
uff, i cant STAND that Kung guy. so pretentious and self entitled lol, but glad to hear ur enjoying cooking
speaking of chef jon, check out check out chef john from food wishes!
@@BigBootyBatman really? i’ve watched him and i didn’t really feel that about him. i think he makes some good points, especially about fusion food and mixing cultures together in cooking.
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@@nicolle2126 I second this. Chef John is a treasure!
I might not be making curry paste anytime soon but I love the lesson of critical thinking and versatility in the kitchen. I have a homemade teriyaki sauce that makes a great base for potsticker dipping, I just dump in black vinegar until it’s thin enough and add Sri racha until it’s spicy enough.
This way I don’t have to wait until it’s teriyaki time again to get use a sauce that required special ingredients.
You kind of covered it with the egg, but I have a Jamie Oliver cookbook where he just rubs curry paste on a chicken breast before pan frying it which was great when I tried it. I also wonder about using curry paste with some neutral oil as a seasoning for roasted potatoes or vegetables. I guess the main lesson here is that we can treat curry pastes as a much more flavorfully deep spice mix that we can add to anything. :) Love the video
I used this video for inspiration for some Thai chicken meatballs, where I added fresh curry paste to the meatballs before rolling them up, searing and then cooking in a coconut red curry. It came out absolutely fantastic! Thanks for the recommendation and idea!
My favourite is fishcakes. About equal amounts of lightly steamed white fish and mashed potato. Add egg to bind and flour to get dryness/wetness ratio correct. Add Thai curry paste (especially one that has lemongrass) and it just brings it home. Make thin and shallow fry. Hell yeah.
Does the white fish need to be partly or fully cooked through initially? I don't know how to steam it / don't think we have the equipment to do it ha ha
@@Metallijosh100 I usually go fully cooked but if it's not quite there it doesn't matter as it's about to get deep fried. I guess you could gently boil it instead, you'd just need a good/fine strainer
I love how much information you condense into such a short bit of time. Amazing.
Just swining by a half year later to say the chicken + [fatty medium] + [herb and spice blend] has saved my weeknights. It's such a great modular. As someone who eats greek yogurt daily. I've dabbled with curry paste, old bay, gochujang, garam masala, and an adovada spice mix, all of which have made chicken thighs divine, and can even save an overcooked chicken breast.
Tl;dr: this is so far the most impactful video on my day-to-day cooking
Great modular…what?
I LOVE U SHAQ U BLOODY LEGEND MUCH LOVE FROM AUSTRALIA
cheers heaps m8
Fry a couple teaspoons in olive oil, add lemon zest, deglaze with vodka, add pasta water, add pasta, emulsify into a creamy sauce, add parmigiano and basil
Curry shrimp toast? Curry sausage??
That Aly and AJ reference???
You snapped😳
🫣🫣😳
literally came here to say this, our king has taste in more ways than one 💖
Every video by this guy slaps so hard! Dudes got me ready to buy AG1 today just cause I trust him so thoroughly!
The way you do ad’s is the best on the internet
You saved me with the upload as I had curry paste lying around. (Of course I made a coconut milk curry with it yesterday). I am going to try out your recipe and make some zucchini lentil fritters with curry paste. Thank you.
Nice one!
Take this curry paste marinated chicken thighs, preferably with yogurt.
Add a tbsp each corn and rice flour each per lb for a pancake batter consistency after marination.
Deep fry.
Deep fry scallions - quick dip
Take some of that oil and fry more curry paste in small pan at buffalo sauce consistency.
Toss all of it together and enjoy.
Awesome advice and the shrimp toast thing blew my mind. I’m sure I ate something like that and just never considered what the hell it actually was. There’s a Thai cooking lady on TH-cam who tested out loads of common curry pastes people can buy in the west and the one in the thumbnail was underwhelming. The one you made from scratch looks next level, but there are other store brands that are good in a pinch 👌
I could have sworn I slept on a mattress.
Holy moly you went off in this one. Thank you for all the incredible ideas!
Totally. I haven't made my own curry paste yet, but I like Mae Ploy yellow curry paste so much that I always sneak a bite when I use it. It comes in a fairly large tub with the curry in a plastic bag inside (so you have to cut the corner and squeeze it out).
I see that thumbnail switch homie. Good vid.
doing whatever i can to salvage this 10/10 baby
Dude this was a fantastic video, well done!
Goodmorning Shaq
gm :)
I've just started getting into cooking Thai and got some (purportedly) nicer curry paste from an Asian market. This is extremely helpful to revisit - thanks for this.
Absolutely! I also love Ethiopian Spice paste and Spice mixes from N Africa. Amazing how they can elevate the flavors of common ingredients.
Harissa is magical
@@jessl1934 Yes!! One of my favorites. Not time consuming and only a handful of ingredients and you have magic! Moroccan fish head soup with Harrisa is delicious! If I have Western company I don't tell them a fish head was involved 😂
Y E S, I got some berbere spice from an Ethiopian shop and mixed it into butter to make this stupid delicious compound butter. I was instructed to save it for a VERY special occasion roast chicken, the kind that will make a guy wanna put a ring on it after he tastes it.
On me. Not the chicken.
@@IjeomaThePlantMama That's awesome! Best wishes!
@@IjeomaThePlantMama berbere is so tasty. I used to season sweet potatoes for breakfast like every day for several years it was a DEEP obsession
Curry Paste is also a super quick way to invoke crazy flavor into a stir fry with minimal prep work (even though, it's my favorite part)
Fabulous advice! I’ve had a container of red Thai curry paste in my fridge for awhile. Time to use it!
Ah man, it's always a pleasure to jump onto TH-cam and see a new Internet Shaquille video
:,)
Something about your videos always inspire me to do whatever you talk about. Love them all!
this is my favourite type of content. love you, buddy!
Shaq. Great video. I've had homemade curry paste, but I've never actually made it my self. I'll give it a go.
Another AMAZING use is Mac & cheese. I added red curry paste to my cheese sauce a few years ago for Thanksgiving and it was an absolute success.
It added a nice spicy kick and gave the Mac some depth. Highly recommend for this Thanksgiving!
Shut up, that sounds amazing 🤤
@@IjeomaThePlantMama yes! Last year I did 2 mac's. 1 w red curry paste (store bought) and a jalapeno mac. Our family likes it spicy 🔥
this is the content missing on youtube. love it
Only man I watch the whole ad, you deserve the world KING
What would happen if you added curry mix to shrimp stock 🤔
dam shawty OKAY
And what if you flavored it with pineapple vinegar
you are the best youtuber and i appreciate everything you do
thank u :)
Try the Mae Ploy curry paste. It’s a bit harder to find in store but Amazon has it. Best store bought curry pastes
Thank you for this video! I've been feeling the same way about gochujang lately, very excited to apply the same ideas with curry paste
another banger dude much love
...I never even conceived the idea that I could make my own curry paste
I can always feel my mind expanding while watching your videos
Thanks for the tip. I checked my bed and found an old bag of curry paste. I removed it and now I'm sleeping much better.
I actually love mixing a bit of mayo, natural peanut butter, curry paste, and lime.
I'll add chickpeas, peas, thinly slices cabbage, onion, carrot, and cilantro. Makes an amazing salad for lunch.
You could use egg m equal parts of each, or mix it up and mess about.
That shrimp toast looks amazing, thank you for sharing. Man I have used curry paste for ages never considered that recipe.
This is brilliant! Thank you for sharing these ideas. I may have to finally start making my own curry paste now.
If by sleeping on curry paste you mean I have so much of this specific brand from your thumbnail in my cubbard that I could make a bed and physically sleep on it, you got me.
Make a beurre blanc and wisk in some thai curry paste at the end
Have the sauce with a nice piece of fish (e.g. salmon or trout), some greens and new potatoes.
Yowza
could you make a video on gochujang and doejang? Super long shelf life pastes for very reasonable price, full of flavor but I find myself not using them as much as I believe I could
Awesome video yet again!
wow that shrimp toast! this is the first time in a lonnnngg time that ive seen a recipe on youtube that i havent heard of before
Always so clever & useful
Dude, wonderful pull on lamb and tuna fish!!! I say that all the time and no one knows what I'm talking about lmao
I randomly used Thai curry paste in a lentil soup last week with a ton of celery seed it all worked really well together. Anyway I'd never used curry paste outside of Thai curry
Thanks for your videos, before I used to eat my food raw but you inspired me to cook.
I thought curry paste is rough unless you cook it out a bit first (like tomato paste), so I’m surprised to hear about mixing it with mayo to make a sauce for fries.
My go to baked fish baste is curry paste mixed with lemon juice and parsley
I love everything you do shaq
I also might be a bit drunk, but that doesn’t detract front the above
:,)
I love curry paste so I'll religiously consider this!
1 TSP curry paste + 1 TSP peanut butter + a little pasta water off some soft rice noodles = the best hangover lunch i've ever managed to get going in under 5 minutes.
i mean TBSP, sorry - ya girl is back at it again with the discount modelos, and it shows.
God, every netshaq video is objectively & subjectively a good use of my time
thank you for giving advice to us with no foresight! Dinner time comes around faster and faster these days
I really needed this video. Its been a month since i got curry paste and i seriously run out of ideas of what to do with kt
he's flexing his ceramics haha
love it
Can you do a video on how to pick and maintain the lemon grass? I have a ton but I have no idea how to pick it.
You can also use it in pretty much any fried rice dish.
Shoutout to Aly and AJ
I love this channel
Haven't watched yet, but I'm saving this for later, because I have that exact jar from the thumbnail, with my other spices/sauces, still unopened, and I have no clue what to do with it
Wow I did not expect an Aly and Aj reference to come at the end of this video. 10/10
conduit? this man is articulate 👍
I make a lot of ceviche from salmon so I'm definitely trying this for my next poke bowl.
A spoonful of curry paste or chutney into fried rice is one of my go-tos.
I don't have a food processor and only a tiny mortar and pestle, so sadly I would only be able to make a tiny amount of curry paste at a time while the process is tiring and hard on my wrists (artritis). Otherwise I'd be cranking out fresh pastes non-stop!
One great use is making spiced black bean burgers. super easy and delicious.
tbh, any of the ideas here you could replace the meat with a vegetable protein and have a great time.
So the day has come. I'm watching a Internet Shaquille video about something I've already known. Finally I'm ready for the Real Life™.
I recommend frying the paste a little and letting it cool before making it a condiment
Excellent idea. Get some roasty notes from all that chili and garlic
Cubed red potatoes is my leftover curry go-to 👌👌👌
Every time I watch Shaq I feel like he somehow is seeing me through the screen and is just barely tolerating me. I'm being negged into liking his content
This will probably not surprise anyone, but smashed chickpea salad (a la tuna/chicken salad) with curry paste is the sandwich of all sandwiches.
Well now I need to try some curry paste
This man simply does not miss
The flavour of galanga is quite different from ginger. I'd omit it before substituting.
3:47 shout out to all the other millenials that got the Aly and AJ reference
Chili paste with ground meat is an A+ idea
In my experience, that lime zest is subtitutable with just any lime zest. Its lime leaf, and curry leaf used in other Thai dish thats hard to sub.
Also, shrimp paste and fish sauce is not 1:1 sub, shrimp paste had much deeper taste and stronger funk. As for galangal, imho you can even omit it entirely and most won't notice.
Coriander roots - garlic - white pepper is the must have base for Thai cuisine imho.
Thats just a thought.
Curry paste, lentils, wrap in omelette top with yoghurt and coriander leaves
Brilliant!
What is that silicone-rimmed fish spatula you used in the "Fry an egg in it" section ~2:54?
Recently didn't have paprika for my beef stew, so I substituted a tablespoon of curry paste and will never look back.
Wooo! You're going down the Thai path!
The Thai restaurant I work at puts curry paste in the fried rice 😻
Doubtful this will get seen, but worth a try. Could you make curry paste without lemon grass?
I have a severe lemon grass allergy (epi-pen levels. Even if it's being cooked with I have a severe reaction). Is there a substitute for lemon grass or is it optional? In my house we love the flavor of curry, but I've turned into a mild buzzkill because of my allergy.
Lemon zest
I need to learn how to make massaman curry paste