Different Types of Curry

Video Transcript

"Hi, Bill Lyons here for Expert Village and we're talking about our quick Thai curry. Now we're going to talk about the flavor of quick Thai curry. And flavoring is what curry is all about. There's many different varieties of curries. Today we're going to talk about just a few that I have on hand here. We have a green curry, a red curry. This is a Penang curry, which you would use with like a noodle type product. This is another type of red curry. There's also yellow curries. There are hot curries, mild curries. You could also instead of using these ingredients if you choose you could use cumin, coriander, red pepper and a little bit of cayenne, to make your own curry. Curry is kind of a family of flavors. It's a mix of spices that are used in many parts of the world to season not only meats, but also vegetables and tofu. Curry is, can range from very mild to a very subtle flavor, all the way up to the kind that you just want to grab a glass of ice water then it's fiery hot. And it's a matter of personal preference. Most of us are more familiar with the more subtle curries, the softer curries that don't have a lot of pepper products in them. Any of these curries that are available here out of your Oriental markets or your general grocery stores tend to be the medium to the milder curries. The Oriental markets and the specialty stores tend to have the hotter curries or you can take any one of these and if you want to kick it up with a little bit of hot sauce or a Shiraishi sauce which is a Chinese or a Korean type hot sauce. Very hot. Be very careful with that. But today we're going to focus more on the softer more gentle sauces along with our coconut base. In a minute we'll be back and we'll start talking about the vegetables that we're going to be using in our curry today."