Question:
I wanted to make thai curry, but I don't have red thai curry paste. The only curry I have is that Japanese curry sauce that comes in cubes. Is it ok to use it as a substitute? I don't even have the ingredients to make the thai curry paste.
Answer:
Not even close with the Japanese curry cubes!
Unless you live in a really rural town, most urban places will have an oriental market, and most of the good ones will carry small tins of the red/green/yellow paste. The point of having these tins is to SAVE you the effort of having to buy each item, having to grill each item to temper it, and then to grind each item into a paste. Even people in Thailand buy these prepared pastes from the market.
I find red/green curry pastes can be interchanged, but green curry is spicier than red. Yellow curry paste is usually for Indian style curries called kaeng massaman, and are not interchangeable with red/green curry pastes. Buy yourself a tin. It will save you the effort. Also, you can choose the spice level by adding more or less than the prescribed amount of your recipe.
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