Patak's Vindaloo Spice Paste, Hot Indian Curry with 11 Expertly Blended Spices, Gluten-Free & Vegan, Flavorful Base for Chicken, Seafood, Vegetables & More, 10 oz Jar

Just terrific Patak makes the best Indian spices you can make great Indian food at home especially because there's no Indian restaurants in Sumter county but just dice up some chicken some peas carrots potatoes and a little okra well you have to do is mix tablespoon full of a talk with filtered water and it'll roast you like a rooster I also use it for rub on lamb chops on fish and just when I bake a chicken it's got all the spices in it authentic Indian this is what the kid is eating when you call Microsoft customer service and you get Mumbai

I love Indian food. I own two Indian food cookbooks, but find the list of spices so daunting that I've never tried any of their recipes. I heard from a coworker that prepared Indian curry pastes were available at specialty stores, so I looked for them here at Amazon and was delighted to find Patak's curry pastes. The spice level is nice, for those of us who like our food hot and spicy, and you can always add more paste if you want more kick.Here are the ingredients: Vegetable oil, cilantro, salt, tamarind, water, cumin, turmeric, chile pepper, ground ginger, garlic powder, maize flour, spices, acetic acid, citric acid, lactic acid.And here is a basic recipe from the label:Shrimp Vindaloo, serves 21 medium onion, diced2 tbsp vegetable oil8 oz. fresh shrimp, peeled (or any other meat)3/4 cup water4 tbsp Patak's hot vindaloo curry paste1/2 cup diced canned tomatoeshot, cooked riceSaute onion in oil. Add shrimp and saute until pink. Stir in curry paste and cook about 1 minute. Add tomatoes and water. Simmer, uncovered until the shrimp is cooked, about 5 minutes. Serve over hot, cooked rice.I tried it with beef (which you'd never be able to order at an Indian restaurant) and simmered for 25 minutes, and it turned out pretty well. Not exactly restaurant quality, but very good for a prepared paste. I now keep Patak's paste and some tomatoes on hand, in case I want to whip up a quick, spicy dish using leftover roast chicken or beef. I look forward to trying the other Patak's pastes.

Not too spicey. Good color. Good flavor. Easy to use.

It was quite good, and useful in a pinch, but not as good as a home made sauce.

So good.

For many years, even decades, this has been my favorite brand of vindaloo flavoring mixture! I must admit though, I am not much of a cook. However, I highly enjoy this paste as a dip for eating baby carrots. It is also amazingly good for flavoring leftover pizza warmed in a microwave!! I have recently tried using this paste in flavoring in soups that I make with frozen vegetables, rice, etc. in a microwave. A forkful of this paste really livens up such a soup on topping.

My husband tried vindaloo curry for the first time whilst we were visiting England in August of this year. He loved it, and was craving more within weeks of us getting back to the US.I was wary of buying a paste, as I worried it would be complicated to make. We didn't get it quite right the first time, but it was still edible and (so my husband says) delicious. I do not like spicy foods, so he got to enjoy it all on its own.We were a bit unsure about the instructions at first, because the recipe is for shrimp curry and we wanted to make chicken curry. It was easy enough to adapt though. The first time we tried making this, we ended up accidentally burning the sauce prior to adding water. This filled the kitchen with a suffocating smell of curry that seemed to last for days! (Note that this only seemed to happen because we had burned the paste, in later attempts, it did leave a strong smell but nothing that an open window couldn't clear out within a few hours.)My husband still loved it though. He has a high spice tolerance, and we often struggle to find foods that are spicy enough for him. He said this was very spicy (and we only used the recommended amount).A single jar lasted my husband for about 4 meals, so although I thought it was pricey, just the one jar worked out being excellent value for money. I would recommend it.

If I could give a negative star I would. This product did not meet THE USUAL PATAKS quality. Heat level and spice level and quality standard were absolutely absent. Three of the jars, shipped separately, arrived with the security pop up seals undone, obviously a health caution as the product had sipped out. Simply put; this was NOT VINDALOO. My family has consumed PATAKS products for 30 years. What a Shame.

I have been buying this for abt 40 years,it remains the best

The paste was good but the packaging should be done better, one of the cap was little loose and it was almost open due to poor packaging.