Curry leaves in coconut oil

[ChloeDharma]

I read this from one of my books:

"Charak the great medical authority of ancient India has said that of all the oils, the gingelly or the sesame oil is the best. It has the finest flavour and a high boiling poiint. This latter quality is important from the health point of view, for it indicates that less molecular restructuring takes place in sesame oil than any other seed oil"

That sounds great, i'm doing a bit of googling, and coupled with the posts by you and Mira i feel much more confident in using sesame oil now for heat infused oils.
Here's one article on the heat stability of various oils, both coconut and sesame were described as medium smoke point 150 degrees C.
http://wineanddine.asiaone.com/Wine%...0523-9116.html
This article confirms sesame oil is able to withstand "relatively high temperatures" without becoming damaged
http://www.sixwise.com/newsletters/0...ls-for-you.htm
This article mentions sesame oil as having a "unique heat activated antioxidant" and suggests adding it to other oils to protect them from heat damage
http://www.goodfat.net.nz/rancid+oil+danger
Here's just, a load of information on sesame
http://www.uni-graz.at/~katzer/engl/Sesa_ind.html
What i had hoped to find though was the exact temperature that sesame oil could be heated to and coconut for that matter, before it was effected by it.

[Blueglass]

Also curry powder will stain light hair yellow because of the tumeric, and that's a disaster. Leaves only.

[Diamondbell]

Also curry powder will stain light hair yellow because of the tumeric, and that's a disaster. Leaves only.

Curry leaves is Murraya koenigii
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curry_Tree

and curry powder is something else totally different --- consisting of turmeric, coriander, chilli powder and other spices, and often curry leaves is not even a part of the curry powder! And I think curry powder is not advisable anyway for hair! In other words, you don't get curry powder out of curry leaves...Hope this makes sense...

[Diamondbell]

Just thought I should clarify some more

Curry leaf (the term) has been slightly wrongly translated. Many Indian languages have the word "karu" kari" that has the meaning of "black" "charcoal" - it is the way the "r" is pronounced, that has probably caused the confusion in translating it into English!

The "curry leaf" is also referred to as Kari Baavu (translated to "Black Neem" in Kannada, one of the Indian languages) and in Tamil and Malayalam (other languages in India) it is known as " Karuveppilai", karu meaning black, ilai meaning leaves and veppilai meaning Neem leaf. So , it is karu + vep + ilai = black+ neem + leaf.

THough the leaf itself is not black, but quite on the darker side of green, and has a bitter taste (though not as bitter as neem leaf), it has been called "kari baavu" or "karuvepilai". (karu meaning black, not "gravy")

[nobeltonya]

I would have never thougt to do this.. I happened across a video on youtube saykng how good this is, so I asked my husband (Indian) and he also reiterated the benefits. I just poured a whole liter bottle of coconut oil in a medium pot and heated on medium heat for about 15 minutes. Then (per my husbands' suggestion) turned off the heat and slowly added he curry leaves. They fried and turned crispy, but not black.. hen I let it sit and cool for about 1.5 hours. Had to pour it into a measuring cup so I could pour it back into he original coconut oil container w/o having it run down he sids. But I kept he curry leaves in the oil. My husband said next time, I'd just add the new coxonut oil straiht into he curry leaves in the same container. And change them (reboil with fresh leaves) about every 6 months. Just applied last night, so not sure how it'll be. But so far so good.

[Priska]

Curry leaves help for hair loss? I just found something about this by Googling and it sounds interesting ... anyone here uses curry leaves for hair loss? .. (this is not same with curry flavour)...