Interesting Local Variations

[timill]

Anyone care to identify this well-known dish on a local (Knoxville) Indian restaurant's menu: "Chicken cooked in lightly spiced sauce with garlic, ginger, onions, tomatoes, lemon, chili, and special herbs with potatoes."

Chicken Vindaloo. See http://www.tajfineindiandining.com/foodmenu.html - not exactly what comes to this Englishman's mind, somehow...

Comments

[frandowdsofa.livejournal.com]

Since when were Biryani and Rice the same thing? And there's far too much broccoli for John ...

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

Doesn't surprise me a bit :-> You're talking about a region where I once ordered a Caesar salad in a restaurant and got chopped-up iceberg lettuce and quartered tomatoes covered with bottled Caesar dressing.

[occams_pyramid]

I thought the official translation of Vindaloo was supposed to be something like: "Insanely hot stuff that we never eat ourselves but sell to drunken Englishmen who have had way too many pints of cheap lager and are trying to out-macho each other".

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

The potato was the giveaway. Curry with potato - must be vindaloo.

(Even though vindaloo doesn't technically require it, the potato/aloo pun is usually too strong for it to be left out. The vindaloo I had up in Bradford didn't have potato, though autopope also reported it as being not much hotter than his madras.)

There's a reason why my sister, when over here, always insists on eating Indian. She just can't find a decent one where she lives in Florida.

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday!

I've been told by several Indians that vindaloos need not be hot -- the characteristic flavour is the vinegar. But yeah, I'd have thought tikka masala, maybe (although it didn't mention that the chicken was marinated ...)