Vietnamese-Style Curry Powder

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    ½ cup

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Southeast Asian Flavors: Adventures in Cooking the Foods of Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia & Singapore

By Robert Danhi

Published 2008

  • About

Vietnamese curry powder is the only one to include powdered annatto seeds, which lend a reddish hue to foods cooked with it. Sweet hints of cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves harmonize with a dominant presence of coriander. Vietnamese curry powder is much higher in this lemony, floral spice than Indian style curry powders. Note the absence of cumin, a spice that the Vietnamese have not embraced fully.