I love your basic curry sauce and make regular batches to freeze. However, we travel a lot and I want to take it with me! Please advise if I can store it like pickle in a sterilised jar and if so, for how long in or out of a fridge.

Honest answer is that I don't know how long it will last in a jar without refrigeration. However, if you have the expertise to bottle things like professionals, it might work. It does last in the fridge for a week, provided the fridge works well.

Roses, of course, we have never tried this, because mum will simply make the sauce each time she wants to use it.

Perhaps some other readers of the site have tried it?

I see a whole new marketing opportunity; first MK aprons, next up MK curry sauces :)

I will come and cook it in your house, shall I ;-)? LOL! I don't want my house smelling of curry all the time!

I imagine that if it was stored in a jar with about half an inch of oil on the surface and a tight fitting lid that it may last for some time. How long though I don't know. I can make curry paste that smells and tastes just like the patak pastes. In my opinion the real secret to it is not in the spices, but how you use them.

I came across a thread somewhere a few weeks ago mentioning that on the patak paste jars it says the paste should always be cooked and never eaten raw. People wanted to know why and I think the best answer that someone came up with was because of Botulism. I think the only preservatives in patak pastes are vinegar, oil, salt and citric acid powder?

Thank you very much for these quick, helpful replies.We camp/caravan a lot so making fresh curry sauce is not always an easy option but I am glad it lasts a week in the fridge.That is great news.

This is the first time I have ever posted a comment on a site and to get five replies since yesterday is amazing! I'm just not web savvy.