To think curry using shop bought sauce is not homemade curry

[redskyatnight]

I mean the type where you basically fry up onions and meat/veg and then pour in sauce from a jar.

Not homemade curry IMO.

What is it then? Home-component-parts-assembled? Does it matter?

I don't use jars but I do use ready-made pastry for 'homemade' pies and dried pasta for 'homemade' lasagna. Consider them home-made. Not completely home made, but given I have made some/most of it, it counts IMO.

Is a cake not homemade if you've used shop-bought jam for the filling?

I agree its not really home made. I do buy ready prepared but tbh when I make home made one of the reasons is to make sure the meal doesn't contain the crap ready made stuff does - which jars also contain

Genuinely don't understand how you can cook a curry from scratch in 25 mins. Even when I use a jar, after I have washed and chopped all the vegetables, cooked the meat, added the jar, let it simmer and cooked the rice, it takes me loads longer than 25 mins. What am I doing wrong?

I do have a habit of turning a quick job into a long laborious one. How can I be more efficient with my cooking?

Not to mention the amount of time it takes to clean up the kitchen afterwards

Who would ever say it was homemade if it was from a jar ?

Made Hugh Ferneley Whatnots biryani the other week. Took me AGES chopping, moving rice around faff faff faff. End result? Dry and horrid. The next time we had Waitrose jar, half fat one, checked ingredients all decent took about 10 minutes and a hundred times nicer. Pride myself on being an ok cook but really life is too short.

I love made from scratch curries! I have made loads frommadhur jaffrey book. Easy to make, but time consuming yes. I am a make from scratch kinda person though. Sometimes do my own pasta, cook my own ham etc. Luckily my DH is an amazing cook, very little is ready made in our house.

I find jar sauces taste quite metallic..l don't get on with tomato purée and I think they can be a bit heavy with those, that's all. Pasta sauces taste too sweet. Wuld rather fry garlic and chilli and use that with good olive oil.

I make proper home-made curries in about 10 minutes flat (plus cooking on the hob time). DH makes proper home-made curries, but they take him an hour at least.

But we both use microwave rice.

Premade stuff in a jar isn't homemade.

YANBU

I don't use sauces from jars (awaits predictably being called a food snob) not because there is anything wrong with them, just because my mum never used them and thats how I learned to cook. No, I don't grow my own spices in my armpits or anything - I buy the seeds in the glass pots and bash them about a bit with a frying pan.

Just the same way that some people don't cook (and that doesn't make them lazy) some people do cook -and that doesn't make them a food snob/weird/smug etc etc!

YANBU

I love food snobbery. I cooked a lush veg curry from scratch tonight, quick, easy & much cheaper also don't have to worry about toddler's salt intake.

Jars of sauce do not constitute homemade. Nothing wrong if that's what you are happy using, but stop turd polishing :o

I don't use any other sort of jar food - those tomato sauces I find pretty grim. But curry - make an exception. Does the paste that you need to add yoghurt/cream to count as being in a jar? My favourite low fat recipe atm is pataks paste, low fat yoghurt, garlic, cumin, coriander marinade raw chicken in then grill it. Delish.

Curry paste is different to curry sauce.

I've never met a curry sauce-in-a-jar that didn't taste vile so everyone is being unreasonable just because they obviously have weird and wonky taste buds.

I cook curry from scratch, but I buy Nann bread and Paratha because frankly, life's too short.

I think its fine to describe it as home cooked but homemade does suggest made from scratch.

Pseud- you'd be amazed! When I was a student, I went on a few dates with a bloke who genuinely believed that grilling some frozen Bird's Eye Cajun-style Chicken Disgustings and serving them with pasta in Ragu sauce was an impressive display of his superior culinary talent. This display coincided with the last of these dates, not incidentally.

Curry sauce = not home made, but what if you use curry paste from a jar?? Does that count as home made or not?

Oh, who sodding cares? What is the point of people turning their nose up at jars of sauce? They're easy and quick and not everyone can or would want to spend all day grinding up chillis with a twig and then finding a donkey to cry on it.

WTF does it matter? This reminds me of the bloody pancake thread! Someone will be along in a minute to say they pity the poor children who have to eat curry sauce from a jar!

FWIW, we eat curry once or twice a week, and we never use jars because DH doesn't like them. I just make extra sauce & freeze so that I can rustle up in a few minutes.

But I think the jars are quite tasty, and I don't really know if it matters whether you call them homemade or not. Do people have nothing better to worry about?

Terrible. Even worse if accompanied by breadmaker bread

Using paste from a jar is definitely classified as home cooking!

I often use paste from a jar as its quick, easy and tasty. I also use Thai curry paste.

Those of you who cook curries from scratch. I want recipes

Please

this book

is excellent Destrier

Everyone loved my chicken korma tonight, lovingly baked all day in the slow cooker (with help from my friend Patak). I did add potato and carrot (which I chopped and peeled myself!). I thought it was real home cooking- well I did until a few minutes ago.

Destruer... Madhur jaffreys curry bible. Bear in mind an initial need to stock up on spices...but you can keep them for ages.