Description
Flavor Profile of our Curry Crab:
- 35% Spicy
- 20% Savory
- 20% Salty
- 10% Umami
- 5% Herbal
- 5% Sour
- 5% Woody
Organic | Made in Louisville, KY
Curry Crab Seasoning | Organic
Price range: $7.99 through $27.99
This blend came about on request from a Pinch customer. They love Curry Crab, a popular Asian crab dish made with a spicy coconut milk broth and needed a spice mix for making it at home. We came up with this tasty little blend that we describe as Asian bay seasoning.
This works great for curry crab (easiest recipe is to mix 2 tablespoons with a can of coconut milk and cook crab, seafood or even tofu in that with veggies), but it is also an excellent addition to stir fry, as a rub on most proteins and being mixed with water to make a seafood boil.
Organic Ingredients: sea salt, yellow mustard, curry powder, chili flakes, gochugaru, ginger, garlic, black pepper, onion, smoked paprika, lemon grass, curry leaf, celery seed.
Additional information
| Weight | N/A |
|---|---|
| Size | 16 oz. Bulk Bag, 8 oz. Bulk Bag, 1/4 Cup Tin, 4 oz. Bulk Bag |
Christina (verified owner) –
I used this to make a curry shrimp and rice dish that we love. It was a little spicier than I thought it would be, but not too spicy. I added honey to add a sweet depth, which really enhanced it! Very tasty!!!!
Benjamin McFadden (verified owner) –
This is surprisingly good with seafood, which what i bought it for haha. I know this is more for curry and even rice, but i wanted a exotic and unique spice for the seafood I love so much. This is great to add to your browned butter for lobster , shrimp and more. happy that I got to enjoy this ! Can work with chicken. This is My new lemon zest seasoning alternative.
Jason (verified owner) –
This is really incredible. There are a ton of ingredients that go into this, and you can really taste the different flavors. There are chunks of curry leaves and lemongrass throughout the package, and you get bites of different ingredients that give individual flavor such as when biting into a celery seed or a piece of lemon grass.
When adding these spices to yesterday’s meal that was more of a broth, and letting the spices simmer…. The smells were incredible. It reminded me of my local Chinese Takeout that has a dish called “Singapore Mei Fun, not only in smell, but the yellow color with the red chili flakes. Which I then connected the dots as this spice mix is called
” Curry Crab
Singapore-Style Curry Mix.”
Which means the spice-mix must be very similar in ingredients, which is a pleasant surprise for me, as “Singapore Mei Fun” was one of my favorite dishes from the local place, before I started eating strictly “organic” and stopped eating out at such places.
Note: the name I mentioned above, which is what is on my spice package, is different from the above pictured bag, but the ingredients still seem to be the same as listed above.
I will say my only negative about this is that this can be salty, as salt is the first ingredient, so you have to be careful when adding your own salt to your dishes. This was the case the first 2 times I added this mix to already salted food, such as the potatoes I had already salted before adding to the rest of my dish. Today’s dish worked out a lot better as I had not salted anything, and even added a little more salt at the end, but not sure If I should have just added more blend to the broth, since the water dilutes everything including the saltiness. More experimentation is needed.
Either way, I would love for this blend to come in a salt-free version(I believe every spice mix offering should have a salt and sugar free version of their regular salted/sweetened ones. I’m not a huge fan of pre-salted/sweetened mixes myself, as I like to add that myself to get the saltiness/sweetness to my liking).
Overall this is a really good mix, and I highly recommend it to those who like curry, enjoy spice/heat, and enjoy Asian-Style dishes. This is definitely a mix that will be a great hit for someone who never had it before and enjoys the exotic flavors of ingredients such as lemongrass.
Initially I was going to give this a 4/5 because of the saltiness being too much and overpowering for me, which was a disappointment, but today’s meal made me believe that it can be less salty than the other meals. I believe the dilution in water helped balance out the saltiness, so that is something to note if you’re just adding this directly onto foods or in a marinade or coating to let sit, vs a soup/curry that would be more watery.
Either way, I’m buying another package with this next order I’m placing shortly, so it isn’t as if I will stop buying this. I will just have to manage the saltiness of my food, and hope that Pinch will make a Salt-Free Version….
Thank you Pinch for another Winner Blend!
Rose (verified owner) –
This smells amazing. I can’t wait to use in my seafood stir fries and replace processed sauces