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Posted on 08/19/2019 9:40:16 AM PDT by Artemis Webb
What is curry? Today, the word describes a bewildering number of spicy vegetable and meat stews from places as far-flung as the Indian subcontinent, the South Pacific, and the Caribbean Islands. There is little agreement about what actually constitutes a curry. And, until recently, how and when curry first appeared was a culinary mystery as well.
The term likely derives from kari, the word for sauce in Tamil, a South-Indian language. Perplexed by that region’s wide variety of savory dishes, 17th-century British traders lumped them all under the term curry. A curry, as the Brits defined it, might be a mélange of onion, ginger, turmeric, garlic, pepper, chilies, coriander, cumin, and other spices cooked with shellfish, meat, or vegetables.
Those curries, like the curries we know today, were the byproduct of more than a millennium of trade between the Indian subcontinent and other parts of Asia, which provided new ingredients to spice up traditional Indian stews. After the year 1000, Muslims brought their own cooking traditions from the west, including heavy use of meat, while Indian traders carried home new and exotic spices like cloves from Southeast Asia. And when the Portuguese built up their trading centers on the west coast of India in the 16th century, they threw chilies from the New World into the pot. (Your spicy vindaloo may sound like Hindi, but actually the word derives from the Portuguese terms for its original central ingredients: wine and garlic.)
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I make some bad-ass crockpot chicken curry.
Oh yeah, I understand that. Love the stuff. All the variations I've been able to try.
Lamb Vindaloo is a favorite of mine.
I remember checking into a motel and smelling curry cooking in the back.
Curry is good, some places do it differently, but it’s tasty stuff.
I used to eat Curried Beef at a little Japanese Cafe on a regular basis when I was stationed there. Beef and Curry Gravy, and I could sprinkle on more if I chose.
I love the Japanese curry sauce over pork Kat-su (breaded fried cutlet) which is something quite different from spicy Indian curries.
I like a good fish head or salmon curry.
Any Vindaloo is good. I’m not big on lamb but I’d eat that!
We love lamb saag, among other things. Curry is my comfort food.
Saag is good as well.
I’ve been making Country Captain chicken (Anglo-Indian) for years, usually double up on the curry powder. We also fix Thai curry dishes, using the paste from Thailand via Amazon. Mighty fine grub.
When we lived in Georgia one of my neighbors gave us a sucker from a Curry tree and we grew it for a couple of years. It was too big to take with us so we gave it away.
Pinging you to this. You may find it interesting...or not.
I remember checking into a motel and smelling curry cooking in the back.
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Ahh. The Patel Motel.
Been there.
I used to do a lot of international business travel. One of my favorite things was looking for curry variations where ever I traveled. An obscure one was going into a Hong Kong McDonalds and seeing that he “local” menu item there was a Big Mac with green curry sauce.
We can thank India for curry and the Brits for spreading it around their empire.
Sorry, couldn't help myself...
I make “Vermont Maple Curry” from the package mix. It’s Japanese. Wow is it satisfying comfort food. Can’t do it often because I overeat it.
I have never heard of it so I just bookmarked it on Amazon. :)
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