Please help me with this curry. Complete novice!

[BootifulLoser]

Okay, most of you will laugh, but I ordered the "Waitrose Katsu Curry Sauce" thinking I would be able to pour it over some chicken and veg and bake it all in the oven. But the instructions on the sauce don't mention anything at all about baking! I think it is supposed to be a stir-fry sauce but I don't want to stir-fry anything.

I have only made chicken curry once before, many years ago, using a Madahar Jaffrey Balti sauce, and baked it in the oven so I thought this would be the same.

Can I convert this somehow to a baked recipe? What do I do? (Help!) I was planning on having it tonight.

(p.s. Apologies for being a cooking numbskull.)

Haha no I just cooked the stir fry n the air fryer and then put the curry sauce in for the last 5 minutes to heat up.

The air fryer will have dried everything out hugely. The clue in stirfry is the name, you fry it… in a pan

No-one can be genuinely this clueless surely?

Why would you try to airfry a curry?

You sauté the chicken breasts in a frying pan, then add the sauce.

For that volume of vegetables you would need to cook/roast them separately. If you want them as a vegetable curry then you’d need to buy/make a separate sauce because those stir in sauces won’t cover that much veg.

I don’t think you need “intuition” I think you just need some common sense or a basic cooking course.

Thanks for your comments...😆 @Lastqueenofscotland2 @Mirabai I used the Airfryer as this particular one (Tefal Actifry) was advertised as being good at stir-frying so I wnated to try it. It was determined upthread that the Waitrose Katsu Curry Sauce is actually a stir -fry sauce not a 'cook in' curry sauce so by this point I had given up on it being a curry.

Many shop-bought curry sauces are stir in (Spice Tailor for example) - that doesn’t mean they’re not a curry nor does it mean you put them in the air fryer. If your cooking knowledge is this rudimentary then follow exactly the directions on the label - don’t go off-piste.

I am not sure I believe the naïveté in this post - no spices bought in the last 20 years, no understanding of how to follow instructions on a packet, or to Google, or simply to understand that a “curry” of any description isn’t to be done in an air fryer?

Really?

Heat oil, cook meat and/or veg, add sauce - that’s it isn’t it to packet sauces?