The present invention is a method for pasteurization of Curry, a sauce or simmer sauce made with onion, tomato and plethora of spices, mostly used in Indian or other Asian cuisines. CAPS uses 5 things to achieve such long shelf-life—2-step unique cooking process, ingredients mainly spices, HPP (high pressure pasteurization), PET containers and refrigeration. We are not using HPP here for a 2.5-5 log cycle reduction in microorganisms as done by all products now as our cooking process itself brings microbes level to <10. However as evident from the lab reports, HPP does play a role in extending the shelf-life as we compared both pre-HPP and post-HPP samples. Our choice of PET containers (recycle code 1) has a role too on account of its 50 times less OTR than the microwavable PP containers (recycle code 5) used mostly for the restaurant take-outs.
