Honestly? Go to a restaurant. You'll get a much better idea of what's what, how it should taste, etc. The jarred stuff isn't necessarily bad, but it's probably totally overloaded with socium, and may not really be authentic thanks as much to the process of, well, being processed as anything else. Going to a restaurant (a lot of Indian places have buffets where you can try lots of stuff) is a much better guide than either a jarred sauce or your friends who may not have the same taste as you do.
That said, my personal restaurant favorites are Malai Kofta, Palak Paneer, and Navratan Korma. The only one of those you can buy in a jar is korma, and you'd need to add your own veg/meat. You couldn't pay me to buy Palak Paneer in a heat-and-serve pouch, having had it once and found the texture of the "spinach" (it really bore no resemblance to spinace, aside from the color) utterly revolting, so as I say...tread lightly with the prepared grocery stuff.
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Date: 2009-07-06 01:02 am (UTC)That said, my personal restaurant favorites are Malai Kofta, Palak Paneer, and Navratan Korma. The only one of those you can buy in a jar is korma, and you'd need to add your own veg/meat. You couldn't pay me to buy Palak Paneer in a heat-and-serve pouch, having had it once and found the texture of the "spinach" (it really bore no resemblance to spinace, aside from the color) utterly revolting, so as I say...tread lightly with the prepared grocery stuff.