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druidcent wrote:

At the risk of sending this off to R&P, the conservative bent of India can be directly related to the British Victorian influence. They were really stuck up..

On the other hand, they brought a lot of yummy vegetables that have been adopted into indian cooking... I don't believe tomatoes or potatoes are native to India, nor garlic... Onions I'm not sure about either... I'll have to get back to you on the rest of the foods that the british introduced to India...

thegleek wrote:

k enuff with the sideshow antics, back on topic with indian food. yum.

so how many variations of rice are there? i know basmati is the best and
biryani is made from it... jasmine is used for more traditional oriental
rice and there are others, but less frequently used...

lordtottuu wrote:

Dunno about types of rice actually. We use basmati only for special occasions.

Have you tried roti and dal. It is one of my favourite dishes.

thegleek wrote:

lordtottuu wrote:

Dunno about types of rice actually. We use basmati only for special occasions.

Have you tried roti and dal. It is one of my favourite dishes.

yeah well dal is just the type of grain. and it can be made in many differeent
ways.. the way yer thinking is like a dal soupy base... u dip the roti bread
in the dal... yum so good!

lordtottuu wrote:

You seem to have eaten most of our food. Do you ever eat your kind of food?

Thresher wrote:

Okay you b@stards. I went and tried Indian food at lunch. I basically bribed a co-worker to go with me.

Thresher wrote:

It was an Indian Buffet. I normally loathe buffets, but this one comes highly recommended by some of our Indian co-workers and it allowed me to get a wide sample. The place was kind of a dump, but the food was terrific.

Thresher wrote:

Not much of it was labeled, so I had to guess at what some of it was. Of the labeled foods, my favorite was Butter Chicken, that was darn good. I had this other chickent dish that must have had a ton of ghee in it, curry, and some beans of some sort. That was my absolute favorite. The guy told me what it was, but I can't remember. It wasn't chicken tikka marsala.

Thresher wrote:

Indian flatbread == win. Damn that stuff is good. There was another bread that had the consistency of cornbread, but it was white. I didn't care for that as much, it had no flavor. I'm kind of thinking I was supposed to pour some of the curries over it, but that didn't dawn on me until later.

Thresher wrote:

I think I'm going to have to try some of the other restaurants in town. One down the road from my home is more of a sitdown and server restaurant. I'd really like to try that.

Thanks for the suggestions!!!

champs wrote:

I love Indian food! One of my favorite things about summer is eating fresh corn on the cob, which some call "maize".

Thresher wrote:

Okay you b@stards. I went and tried Indian food at lunch. I basically bribed a co-worker to go with me.

thegleek wrote:

yer just 'trying' to be funny champs, but failed at it.

Aphasia wrote:

Damn, reading all this made gave me a craving for papadums. Way too long since last time. Oh well, have to go get some next time.

Chapati or chapatti is a type of roti or Indian bread eaten in South Asia and East Africa. It is made from a dough of atta flour (whole grain durum wheat), water and salt by rolling the dough out into discs of approximately twelve centimeters in diameter and browning the discs on both sides on a very hot, dry tava or frying pan (preferably not one coated with Teflon or other nonstick material). Each disc is then held for about half a second directly into an open flame, causing it to puff up with steam like a balloon.

Often, the finished chapatis are brushed with ghee (clarified butter). Variations include replacing part of the wheat flour with millet (bajra) or maize (makka) flour. The chapatis are then referred to in Hindi as bajra roti or makke ki roti. When a mixture of millet, maize and gram flour is used, the chapati is called a missi roti.

Chapatis are usually eaten with cooked dal (lentil soup) or vegetable (Indian curry) dishes, and pieces of the chapati are used to wrap around and pick up each bite of the cooked dish.

The steaming (ballooning) step can also be achieved by placing the chapati in a microwave oven for five to ten seconds. However, because microwave cooking can cause the chapati to become soggy, a heated grill or open gas flame are recommended.

Papad (also papadam, poppadom, papadum, and appalam) is an Indian and Sri Lankan flatbread. Typically, it is prepared using black gram bean flour, rice flour, or lentil flour with salt and peanut oil added. The ingredients are made into a dough and formed into a thin, round shape similar to a tortilla. As the dough is prepared, the papadum can be seasoned with a variety of different ingredients such as chilies, cumin, garlic, black pepper, or other spices.

Papadums are cooked by deep-frying in oil, which causes them to expand and crispen. They may also be cooked by roasting them over an open flame, in a toaster oven, or in a microwave oven. Depending on the cooking method they may be either soft and moist or crisp in texture.

Most often served as a complement to a main dish, they are also eaten as a snack or as an appetizer to be topped with chutney, various dips or salsas. Commonly made in different sizes, the smaller ones are for snacks and the larger variety may be used as a food wrap.

just brew it! wrote:

I think if all vegetarian food was as delicious as most Indian vegetarian dishes, I might actually be able to tolerate being vegetarian.

(Beer is vegetarian, after all... )

Thresher wrote:

Not all beers, unfortunately. Any that use isinglass finings for clarification (which is most mass produced beers) aren't vegeterian.

Thresher wrote:

I'm not sure if it is Laddoo or not.

They had two sweets, one was a ball of cake donut textured flour that had been fried and had a honey liquid over it. The other one was bright yellow, had a much harder shell/crust on it and had a few nuts in it. The flour was much coarser than the first one. The second one didn't have any liquid on it.

That second one was sooooooooo good.