Why haven't more of you tried Indian curry? Years ago I was starving for Mexican food while working in Iran and a friend turned me onto curry. If you like chili or Mexican food, you may very well like curry. We have no local restaurants, so I try to cook it myself. It is very complex, lots of strange spices --- coriander, cumin, chilis, fenugreek, cardamon, turmeric, mustard seeds, aosefitida, mango powder, just to name a few. It's really delicious if you can do it right.
I've never understood why curry hasn't caught on here like in England. It's their equivalent of Tex-Mex. Leaving on a 2 month trip with no computer, so won't be here to answer.
There are several Indian cuisine restaurants around my area. Tried a couple. Did not care for it at all.. Some friends are from India and they cooked for us once. Though not at bad as the restaurant, I again did not care for it. Anything with curry, I do not like.
I was talking to an Indian gentleman that owned an Indian restaurant one evening. I mentioned that I liked spicy food and thought that Indian food was kind of bland. He said that they toned their food down for the american palate. One thing led to another and he said that if he couldn't make his food spicy enough for me, I wouldn't have to pay for it. Bottom line - he hurt me bad. I found out that there's curry and then there's CURRY. Wow.
Retired and visiting as much of this beautiful country as I can.
First of all, how did you arrive at the conclusion that very few of us enjoy Indian food, and/or Curry? It has been around for a long time, and we have been enjoying it for many years, along with Thai food, TexMex food, Chinese Food, Italian food, and even some American food. From my experience, I see lots of people in these restaurants, and thinking some of them must be RVers.
I agree with Jim. Most ethnic food has been "Americanized". You almost need to have a personal relationship with the owner/chef to have your meal prepared authentic. That may or mean or not mean spicy.
An Indian restaurant in Indonesia asked me one time if I liked my food spicy or not. I said, I'm a Texan, we like it hot! The chicken tikka masala came out and I told my wife, "Look, I've never seen this dish with green beans cooked in it before!" It wasn't green beans! I tried to eat it but had to give up. My dish alone must have had 15 or 20 chilis in it! Lesson learned! Pretty sure I heard some Hindu snickering from the kitchen.
Oh, by the way. If a restaurant uses bell pepper, it's not really Indian food. They don't use that overseas. Just use here to try and please us Americans. Ruins the dish.
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Try chicken tikka masala. It's really an English adaptation of Indian food, but now the Indians like it too. You marinate some boneless chicken overnight, then grill it in a smoky pit. Then you chop it up, brown it in butter and cook in a lot of spices and half n half cream to thicken. Eat over rice. It's complicated, but us old retired folk are looking for something to do anyhow. Check the web for hundreds of recipes.
The kind of Indians Columbus was looking for but didn't find.
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