On curries

[bellinghman]

Last night, I was looking for some pre-made curry sauces (because I'm lazy) and remembering artela's moan about finding chilli in a masala, I thought I'd check the list of ingredients.

Of the 4 Indian manufacturers - and I include Pataks here because I've met them and eaten with them and I know they're not blacked up Yorkies - three of them list chillies as an ingredient in their masalas, whereas only Pataks don't, and they merely list 'spices' in the relevant place, so quite probably including them.

I think that if I were suddenly to develop an allergy to the noble fruit, I'd have to be extremely careful around any form of curry. Which would be a bugger, because I like curries, and I like also Thai food, and even some Chinese dishes have chillies in them.

No Malaysian, either.

Pretty please, tell me allergies aren't infectious.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Hmm - 'masala' basically translates as 'spice mix', so any given spice is fair game.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Very true. And given the British expectation of chilli in curry, it's quite possible that the pastes and powders made in India and exported to us are prepared with our tastes in mind.