{"id":133,"date":"2018-04-01T14:44:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T05:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/?p=133"},"modified":"2018-04-01T14:44:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-01T05:14:30","slug":"structure-of-curry-pastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/structure-of-curry-pastes\/","title":{"rendered":"Structure of Curry Pastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From this article:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/dec\/30\/anna-jones-curry-paste-recipes\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/dec\/30\/anna-jones-curry-paste-recipes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The summary is: A curry paste can be divided into Aromatics \/ Spices \/ Oil \/ Chilli \/ Top Note \/ Liquid<\/p>\n<p>Aromatics include:<br \/>\nLime leaves \/ zest \/ juice, lemon zest and preserved lemons, garlic, spring onion, red onion, shallots, lemongrass, ginger, cloves, turmeric<\/p>\n<p>Spices include:<br \/>\nNutmeg, cardamom seeds, coriander seeds, cumin seeds, cinnamon, peppercorns, saffron, curry leaves, mustard seeds<\/p>\n<p>Chilli: fresh, dried, frozen and grated or preprocessed (eg harissa paste)<\/p>\n<p>Top Note: coriander, mint, thai basil, honey<\/p>\n<p>Liquids include:<br \/>\nCoconut milk, coconut cream, tinned tomatoes, possibly extras like tamarind paste.<\/p>\n<p>Basic Method<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Blend the Aromatics with the oil and Top Note to get a fine paste<\/li>\n<li>Heat the paste in a pan until a strong smell arises<\/li>\n<li>add the liquid + stock<\/li>\n<li>Add vegetables and other ingredients, in order of time to cook<\/li>\n<li>Use stock to get the right consistency<\/li>\n<li>Add chopped herbs and nuts for crunch: peanuts, cashews and shallots are useful for this<\/li>\n<li>Serve with rice or noodles as a base<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From this article: https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2016\/dec\/30\/anna-jones-curry-paste-recipes The summary is: A curry paste can be divided into Aromatics \/ Spices \/ Oil \/ Chilli \/ Top Note \/ Liquid Aromatics include: Lime leaves \/ zest \/ juice, lemon zest and preserved lemons, garlic, spring onion, red onion, shallots, lemongrass, ginger, cloves, turmeric Spices include: Nutmeg, cardamom seeds, coriander [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p715w6-29","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/luketoop.com\/epiphanies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}