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Cooking with MSGs

  • 08-11-2020 3:14pm
    #1
    Eleven Benevolent Elephants
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 426 ✭✭


    I bought a 545 gram sack of MSG from Amazon.

    I plan to add these to my curries that I make from scratch at home. At what stage do you add these ?

    Do you sprinkle it on the finished cooked food?

    Do you add it to the raw materials?

    How much do you add for a curry for two for example?


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  • #2
    the beer revolu
    Registered Users Posts: 16,737 ✭✭✭✭the beer revolu


    Treat it exactly as you treat salt, I'd imagine.


  • #3
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Do a few google searches on quantities, I got a bag a while ago and it's only used once in a while but damn it's some gear.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #4
    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,373 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    I don't think it is used much in Indian restaurants/takeaways. It certainly is in Chinese ones. I love the stuff but have never added it to curry.

    You can search the term "BIR" which is "British Indian Restaurant" and find lots of recipes and tricks they use, I guess ours here would be similar, I knew a guy who worked in one here and lots of stuff he said I have seen on the UK videos. There are several Chinese youtube channels doing both BIR and UK Chinese takeaway recipes. And forums too

    these are discussing it, saying its already in some commercial mixtures. The tomato in Indian curries will have natural MSG.
    https://www.curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php?topic=2643.0

    On the Chinese ones they tend to cook it out, I have never seen it just sprinkled on at the very end on its own, though they can make a salt & chilli powder mix (salt, msg, 5 spice, chilli, maybe garlic powder too) which can be put in a salt cellar and sprinkled, but usually its sprinkled on while still cooking.


  • #5
    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,597 ✭✭✭Feisar


    I threw a teaspoon and a half (approx, I never measure stuff) into plain long grain rice as it boiled, jaysus it was great.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #6
    Thephantomsmask
    Registered Users Posts: 1,355 ✭✭✭Thephantomsmask


    I cook a lot of BIR, I sub out half my salt in a recipe for MSG. It just gives a nice little additional oomph to the flavour. It is widely used in Japanese cooking also.


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