/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>10780635
>How do those poo flingers make all this delicious food?
Fresh spices and lots of ghee. And caramelized onions.

Favorites:
>sambar w/ idli
>pakora
>masala dosa
>palak paneer
>chana masala
>methi chicken
>gulab jamun, gajar halwa
>masala chai

>>10780674
>palak paneer
yes

>>10780635
I know Dhansak isn't Indian (persian?) but all of the Indian restaurants in the UK serve it, and it's absolutely delicious.
It's hot, sweet, salty and sour all in one.

>>10780635

Aloo keema

Ground beef, add cumin, ground coriander, chilli, curry powder, turmeric, ginger and garlic. Add some fresh tomatoes and a tin of crushed tomatoes, as to your tastes.

Fry together, add stock and chopped potatoes (stock should just cover potatoes) boil then simmer for 40ish minutes until potatoes nearly done then uncover and reduce to gravyfy the stock and finish off potatoes. Add a good whack of fresh coriander just before it comes off.

Enjoy with coconut jasmine rice or regular basmati.

>>10780635
This is a typical scenario for Bongs who have lived in India, and the reason commercial curry powder was invented, as well as why you can get chutney in the supermarket. You have access to Indian shops and curry houses, so you're not SOL. Cooking that stuff on your own isn't hard, but good recipes have long ingredient lists, many steps and take a lot of time. I cook South Asian food pretty often here in Klapistan, and set aside at least an hour (usually more) for prep and cooking when making such a meal. It's clearly a cuisine from a place where people's time is not all that valuable, because it takes a lot of time. If you're serious about cooking some of this stuff in your own kitchen Madhur Jaffrey has written a few cookbooks that represent a decent starting point if you have no one to hold your hand in that regard. Her recipes may not be amazing, but they are bulletproof, and give you a decent idea of how ingredients and techniques vary from region to region in India. It doesn't take long to figure out which regions (and specific dishes) your taste leans toward.

>visit manchester
>local tells me city specialty is "mushy peas"
>think that it sounds terrible but give it a try
>worse than I could have ever possibly imagined
>eat at random hole-in-the-wall indian restaurants for the rest of my trip, nothing special but at least it's edible and tastes decent

Why do british people eat baby food?

>>10780635
why didn't you bring one of them home with you?

Let me give you some deep insider knowledge friendo, straight from the concrete jungles of Karnataka. This isn't something you'll find at your casual curryhouse. If you're in software you might have gone to Bengaluru which means you may be familiar with these.

>Neeru dosa with sambar. Or rava dosa
>Mysore masala dosa with the modification of adding mint to your potato palya
>Uttapam (whatever vegetables you like)
>Bisi bele bath
>Tomato bhath
>Rava idli with coconut chutney and red chili chutney. mango chutney if you're cool
>Vangi bhath (eggplant)
>Puri + potato palya
>ragi roti (hard tier)
>Breakfast: rava upma, or pongal
>Appetizer: dahi puri
>Dessert: Kesari bhath

As mentioned Madhur has great videos, possibly for some of these. Another comfy channel is SruthisKitchen.

>>10780869
nice blog, faggot

to answer your question, because theyre retarded from inbreeding, alcoholism, and generational FAS

>>10780886
I spent most of my time in Hydrabad and Banglore
I remember eating dosa with some sort of green chutney, that was good. Also uttapam were godly, can't get any better than an uttapam for breakfast. Idli's were excellent if they were fresh
I also ate kali daal + garlic naan at the local north indian eatery every once in a while, that food is the epitome of human achievements, absolutely delicious

>>10780635
It is the secret spices that make it great. They don't wash their hands. Tell the cooks in bongland to forgo hygiene.

>>10780849
Fucking this, it takes ages to prepare for indian food, the amount of effort they put in each meal is enormous
Preparation time for south asian food including indian food is extremely long. They have exotic ingredients, and spices, but the food itself isn't bad

>>10780869
mushy peas aren't really something to eat on their own, it's a side for fish and chips.
that said, when done right, mushy peas are delicious, but some less-than-reputable establishments probably use the shittest tinned peas they can find.
there are plenty of disgusting indian restaurants around as well.
the best in my town is actually owned by an english guy.

not that I don't like indian food, i just don't have a developed palate for it.
its hard for me to say which indian dishes I like, cuz i can't really tell them apart by name.
everything seems to be a variation in the ratio of the same spices and veggies. with rice.

but, maybe i just described every ethnic cuisine.

>>10780635
As a burger, I make chicken tika masala a few times a year. Debatable how indian that dish really is. I love it over basmati rice. Ghee is fucking expensive for me, though.
I also like making chanas masala and eating it on naan.

>tfw you go to the local Indian joint with your friend
>tfw she always orders tikka masala but calls it "tiki masala"

>>10781083
>tika masala
>Debatable how indian that dish really is
It's Indian, just more modern than traditional.

>>10781083
>Ghee is fucking expensive for me, though.

Why are you buying ghee? Make it from butter. It's incredibly easy and far cheaper than paying the crazy prices for the shit in a jar.

>>10781083
Basmati rice is goat, kinda pricey tho
Ghee can be make from milk. I love the flavor, so i often make ghee, love topping that goodness on everything i cook. Plus, you can also use ghee to shallow fry, definitely beats using conventional oil

>>10781144
this but don't get complacent, if you get distracted for a bit too long you could ruin all your butter very quickly

>>10781052
indian food that is exported in the west is like as you describe. same with mexican food that is exported to the US. the food people actually eat is a lot more diverse and less fancy and time-consuming.

>>10780976
if it was dark green and spicy, probably green chili chutney. light green, probably coconut chutney with a bit of green chilis.

>>10781002
This may be true at restaurants but most people, as in Indian people making food to eat at home, don't spend much more time than anyone else. Everyone's gotta go to work after all. For example, chana masala might take less than 30 minutes to make. Dosas and idli you'll need to let the batter ferment for a day, but that's inactive time, the actual frying takes minutes.

Indian cuisine is up there for me with italian. I havent eaten many indian dishes but dal makhni with nan bread and basmati rice is my favorite dish by far.

>>10781039
Wrong kind of Indian. The brown ones, not the red ones.

>>10780635
Pleb tier but I love butter chicken. I've made it at home but the store bought is better. All that cream with fresh tandoori naan bread.

>>10781140
It's British

>>10781083
>>10781140
chicken tikka masala is a british dish.
or you could say it's an indian-inspired dish developed for 70s era bongs.

>>10780849
Doesn't it make your house smell if you cook it the right way?

>>10781848
It just seems like a less creamy version of butter chicken

My cousin married an Indo-Guyanese guy, and for the pre wedding ceremony (some Hindu ritual) the women cooked us some fucking delicious vegetarian food, I wish I knew what the dishes were called.

Indian food is my 2nd favorite cuisine behind Mexican, it's so damn good. I'm trying to find out more dishes than the ones you can find at every Indian restaurant in the US.

>>10782239
There's a poo in the loo student who posts here sometimes. Ask him for some Indian websites and use google to translate them.

>>10782244
Is that eaten like a kebab, or does it go with rice?

>>10782270
normally served without the skewer along with veggies and naan break, sometimes see it served with rice

>>10780635
The ones without poo in it

>>10782295
Ooh that looks really good

>>10782295
>that red colour
How?

>>10780635

>>10782367
Okay he wipes his ass with his hands, but why didn’t he wash them after the fact lol

>>10780635
>Takala Ramanaja
>Shtee neh
>Wlaja
>Puri pudi
>Bhanaa tek
>Cici nakow
>Rava dava

>>10782446
If it's a good place? It comes from the spices in the marinade: red chili, saffron, turmeric.

If it's a shitty place? food coloring.

>>10782239
You should ask your cousin. This is true for people of every culture of course but Indians really love sharing their food and recipes. If you remember any details about the meals I can help too

>>10782446
I've never cooked meat but generally that red color is from Kashmiri red chili powder, which is very colorful and not spicy, not just regular red chili powder (also both are used probably). Also turmeric. Other Anon is correct though, if it's supposed to contain saffron, it's almost always food coloring even at home just because of how expensive saffron is.

>>10782642
I feel like I'm being made fun of but this is pretty funny anyway

>>10780635
Aloo Ghobi is god tier

Is there an Indian cooking YouTuber? I want to try my hand at writing for a fetish that I'm not into, like scat.

tamil food > other indian food > paki food

prove me wrong.

>>10780635

>>10782993
Kek

>>10783014
Tamil food is quite limited in the ingredients it requires, everything is rice based.
That said, it can be quite bland when you compare it to Andhra cuisine, or even Northern Indian cuisine

>>10780635
Had a place not so far from me that did a Spanish infused naan bread. Fuck my life I was in love with that. It went perfectly with their spicy sweet masala.
Wish the same chef still worked there.
I love you poo in loo Indian anon.

>>10784185
Spinach infused. Fuk my spell corrector.

>>10782733
I would ask her, but she's like a 3rd cousin and I'm not close with her. And I don't know if it makes a difference, but they're Guyanese Indians and not Indians straight from India.

I bet Indian girls give amazing footjobs

Do most Indian places in the US and UK serve the same dishes more or less? And are they usually pan-South Asian rather than just Indian?

>>10784808
I bet they do, their soles look so sexy

>>10780635
Dahi wada

>>10780635
OP, do you like Jamaican food? It;s

I love Indian food myself, but I like it among a variety of different cuisines. I too prefer flavorful food over stereotypical wypipo food, but I like to switch up the ethnicites.

Mexican food is really good too, but I doubt you have much of that in Bongland. However I'm sure you can find Jamaican food, and maybe Thai food as well.

It is very impressive that Indian vegetarian food is actually good. The only way I could ever become a vegetarian is if I had a qt Indian wife who could make me that stuff

>>10785171
Agreed
I usually try to avoid vegetarian food because of how boring it is, but Indian vegetarian food is a whole different matter, i could eat a naan bread with paneer tikka anytime

>>10785216
That's how I feel! I almost feel as if the vegerarian dishes are just as good as the chicken ones. Maybe like one step under. Meanwhile with any other cuisine, it's not even close.

i hate indian food it minds me of poop ;)
INB4 THEN WHY YOU IN DA THRED HUH???
INB4 UUUHHHH GEEZ MAN SHITPOST MUCH?????

I love spicy food so much, but it gives me horrible shits :( If it just burned I wouldn't mind, but it gives me those loose shits that make have to go to the bathroom right away.

Any way to avoid this? I've always wanted to try lamb vindaloo, but I'm afraid of spending 2 days on the toilet. And aside from the spice tolerance, is it a good dish?

>>10785236
Try to get lighter dishes that don't have a lot of cream or ghee. Any dishes with sauce will usually have them. Or just eat smaller portions of it.

>>10785238
But I don't think it's the cream, because I don't have this problem with Tikka Masala. It's just the spice I think.

When I have Jamaican jerk chicken, the sauce is really hot and I have terrible shits for a whole day.

rasam and aloo gobi

>>10780869
>manchester
lol that's like the philadelphia of england. not exactly a bastion of haute couture

>>10785276
Philadelphia has a lot of upscale dining

>>10785276
>haute couture
What do you think this phrase means, anon?

>>10785276
>haute couture relates to food
Retard.

>>10785276
>haute couture
what did he mean by this?

>>10785276
why do americans insist on using vocabulary they don’t understand?

Had a pretty good masala dosa last night. Real crisp dosa, good flavorful potato masala with heaps of fresh peas. The coconut chutney was also way better than most bland, watery ones I've had.

Indian girls must have the best smelling farts ever

bump

>>10785236
People always associate Indian food with spiciness but there are plenty of regions that prefer mild food. Additionally, religious food is very mild because spiciness unnaturally excites the body, which is viewed as bad.

Just don't add as much red chili powder or fresh chilis in. It'll still taste great. And make a raita (light yogurt salad) on the side.

>>10786466
I know not all Indian dishes are spicy, but I want to try the spicy ones too

>>10784816
>Do most Indian places in the US and UK serve the same dishes more or less? And are they usually pan-South Asian rather than just Indian?

I live in the US and I have family in England. I also travel there for work fairly often.

In my experience they are both very similar. About the only differences I tend to notice is that some American places don't have Chicken Tikka Masala whereas it's ubiquitous in England. Also, I tend to see Phall dishes on the menus of English restaurants a lot more often than the American ones.

>>usually pan-South Asian
Depends on what you mean. Paki dishes are common in both places. But southeastern Asian stuff like Thai is not.

>>10782624

>>10786523
No, I meant Indian Subcontinent/Desi, not Southeast Asian.

It seems like Indian restaurant menus in the US are pretty repetetive, despite Indian cuisine being so varied.

The curries I see are usually plain, tikka masalla, korma, vindaloo, jalfrezhi, and kadai

>>10788517
Same in the UK really. Sometimes you'll find a place that does more dishes local to whatever part of india the chef is from but generally speaking they do tend be fairly standard.

>>10781404
>brown is a shade of red

Saag paneer with homemade cheese, I make it all the time. Wonderful with naan.

>>10782239
>Indian and Mexican

You must really like to evacuate your bowel

we’re on the same page though, brother

>>10782217
Ummm, yeah. It makes your house smell like food. Food that frequently has toasted cumin and onions in it. So what?

>>10789638
Some people say cumin smells like body odor for some reason, so they don't want their house to smell like it, even if they enjoy the taste in small amounts.

>>10789662
Yeah, if you've ever been to an Indian or Indo-Guyanese person's house, you may have noticed that the house has a perpetual curry smell.
>>10789631
I find that neither makes me have to shit unless it's one of the spicier offerings.

>>10780635
Lamb vindaloo as hot as they can make it so I hate myself for ordering it.

>>10789871
>Lamb vindaloo as hot as they can make it so I hate myself for ordering it.
My black person

>>10789880
White as wonderbread I just like a thrill.

>>10789871
does vindaloo make you shit your brains out?

>>10780635
Not a food, but i love me some masala chai tea after a long day of work. Shit refreshes you you know

>>10789889
No indian food makes me shit my brains out. It bloats me up real bad but thats because I usually down a pile of rice with it. Only food that gives me the shits is extremely fatty stuff like a steak cooked in a brick of butter.

>>10789917
interesting, steaks are like a safe food to me.

Things that make me shit: excessive spice (like Jerk sauce) , and milk products that have not undergone a chemical change. It's weird because other Jamaican foods that are spicy don't make me shit as much, I wonder if has to do with what peppers are used.

>>10789937
The best safe food in the world are grilled cheese and sunny side up. You will need to try extremely hard to make them unpalatable

>>10788550
What are some regional dishes you like in particular?

>>10789937
Home cooked steak is fine but when I go to a decent restaraunt I can tell my steak was seared in a pan full of butter. Love the stuff but too much of it and my IBS is like "Time2squirt"

My brother gave me a ton of hot sauces for Christmas. I could handle them all except for this green shit sauce made out of Yukata or whatever. That stuff was bad for my colon. This shit right here is like crack though. Fires me up real good.

Not a huge Indian food fan but from what I've eaten I've liked:

pakora
samosa
naan
vindaloo (lamb and pork)
butter chicken/chicken tikka masala
tandoori chicken
kheer
various lassis
chai

I live not even two minutes away from a mid tier Indian sit-down place but I'm too much of a poorfag to afford eating there.

>>10789984
You ever eat papadums? They taste like diesel exhaust whenever I get them at my local curry shack. Fucking can't stand em.

>>10789990
>papadums
They're pretty good as starters if you can find authentic indian ones.

The best Chicken Tikka, I ever had was from an indian resturant where everyone turned to look at me because I looked white and the family who owned the restaurant came out to look at us. I asked for it spicy and they messed up it great, it was the first time I've had a place make it spicy enough for me. I really should go back

Shukto. Your weak ass bowels can only handle shukto.

Just a tip, most indians add hing (asafoetida) to their curry. It aids in digestion/upset stomach that can come from heavy spice.

A lot of westerners forego this ingredient because it seems to have mild to no taste, and they are unaware of why its added/where to get it. And then they get the shits/gas.

>>10790064
Fuck towelheads man why do they get all these hot chicks

>>10790181
only the 1% faggot

>>10790181
>Indians
>towelheads
American education everyone

>>10780804

British Indian restaurants serve a cuisine that is almost entirely unique, it's referred to as BIR (for British Indian Restaurant funny enough). It combines simplified, and usually spiced up, versions of dishes from many cultures. It's possibly the least "Indian" Indian cuisine you'll get anywhere in the world. Which is odd if you think about it.

>>10780869

Traditional brirtish food is, without exception, bland tasteless shit. Only country in the world in which I've existed on fast food because i couldn't force the local greasy slops down.

>>10781144
>Why are you buying ghee? Make it from butter. It's incredibly easy and far cheaper than paying the crazy prices for the shit in a jar.

Tinned ghee (in the UK at least) is massively cheaper than buying butter and clarifying it.

>>10790227
Well, Sikhs wear turbans and they're mostly from India.

>>10790427
They actually serve the dishes more spicy? I can understand simplified, though. I'm sure my local Indian restaurant here in the US has time saving techniques if they can get us our orders within 15-20 minutes.

>>10781166
It seems like all the indian recipes i read take forever and have 50 ingredients. How do moms make this stuff while caring for young children? How to afford all the spices? I love indian food but never make because of the time/needing 30 bucks worth of spices for each dish issues.

>>10788832
Post recipe or link pls. I want to make this but no cheese recipe. :'(

>>10790898
it's not 30 bucks worth of spices for each dish, it's 30 bucks' worth of spices that you use for a variety of dishes, at probably 20 or 30 cents' worth of spices for each meal. The vast majority of curries are running off of a mix of most of the following:

>garlic
>ginger
>onion
>tomato
>cardamom
>cinnamon
>tumeric
>cumin
>curry leaf
>coriander seed
>mustard
>chili powder
>paprika

You can make your life easy by buying one curry powder mix and one garam masala. That won't make you perfect curries every time, but it will get you most of the spice you need, and the rest of the flavor comes from the two or three fresh vegetables and protein you use.

>>10785280
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>>10785310
>why do americans insist on using vocabulary they don’t understand?
This is clearly a British person trying to explain inter-city dynamics within Britain to an American

>>10790915
Thanks! Screenshotted for grocery list.

I'm thinking of dating an Indian grill because of her cooking

>>10790909
Paneer IS a kind of cheese, so unless you can buy paneer from some indian shop, you will have to resort to making paneer at home.
A word of advice tho, the indian shop kikes will try to overcharge for paneer. Its a premium food in their culture and it will show

>>10789937
>milk products that have not undergone a chemical change
What does this mean

>>10790934
Milk in cheese form has less or even no lactose because it has turned undergone chemical change. That's why many lactose intolerant people can eat cheese and yogurt, but not drink milk or eat ice cream.

>>10780635
>Achari Murgh
>this is a chicken dish that is made with all the spices one would normally use in an indian pickle. It is extremely aromatic and delicious, and as is the case with most pickled foods

>>10790909
https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-paneer-cheese-in-30-minutes-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-57008

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nh_8s9Sa64

What part of India has the best food?

And how is Sri Lankan food?

do all Indian dishes use the same spices more or less?

>>10791258
Not really. For a typical "curry" they will, cumin/coriander/turmeric/chili+garam masala, but the named dishes usually focus on one spice as the main flavor or depending on what the main ingredient is. Could be anise, fenugreek, cumin, nigella, etc.

>>10791294
So you're saying that dishes besides the usual curries are less likely to have that same mix of spices? What are some examples?

how is lamb rogan josh?

>>10780635
Eh indians are probably the only race of non white people who don't just randomly put spices in their food to make it edible.
They're fucking pro when it comes to using spices properly, niggers can scream and shout all they want but nobody can beat the pooinloos when it comes it spices

>>10790865
>They actually serve the dishes more spicy?

Much more spicy.

>>10790181
Don't know man. India has gorgeous women walking around right next to the grimiest men

>>10790898
My mom would buy her spices in bulk, and then when we'd come back from the market we'd spend Sunday morning peeling garlic and ginger, grinding it into a paste, toasting spices and grinding them and putting them in jars, cutting a shit ton of onions in advance, etc. Actual cooking time is very minimal if you can put away a couple hours every two weeks, and an extra half hour on the odd week to cut fresh produce.

Then a simple curry would be as easy and throwing things into the pot in a certain order, and then letting it cook however long.

>>10790915
Seconding this.

Also
>tfw no golguppa stands where I live

>>10790915
https://youtu.be/A86PvO1bBFk

>>10792287
tfw no indian waifu to prep meals with

>live in india for 6 months for work purposes

LOL why would you even do that.

>>10789990
Thats probably because theyre frying them in old ass oil thats been used to cook other stuff.

Dont order then as a starter, its like paying $2-5 bucks for a couple potato chips. You can buy a whole stack of them to fry at home.

Theyre more of a southern thing so you have to eat it with south indian food. Especially the tapioca ones.


>>10791122
pic related, more non veg food in the south. more seafood too.

>>10791590
Mexicans also use spices very well, and Thai people too

>>10791873
So the wypipo are actually the ones who want it spicy? Interesting

>>10794059
Where is Goa on this?

And speaking of this, I was at a New Year's party an this Indian lady contributed an appetizer, it was beef cutlet and I was pretty surprised. I know not all Indians are Hindu of course, but I didn't know that India had traditional beef dishes. Side note, her daughter was super hot, and of Southern Indian descent. She was married to a lame white guy

Literally any biryani

But I am trying to avoid carbs so I've been eating lamb curries.

At night I dream of having sex with samosas

So to the dude I was talking about shitting issues with, initially I kinda dismissed your claim about butter being the cause. Then I ate toast with a bunch of butter, and I had to shit like 3 times today. So maybe it is the butter more than the spice! Then again, jerk chicken is not buttery but it makes me have to shit. But Jamaican curry chicken and stew chicken also have heat and I don't have that problem. Could it be specific pepper types that cause this problem?

>>10791357
I've had dal that was mainly seasoned with nigella seed, a cabbage dish that had fennel, methi chicken tastes mostly of fenugreek, some dishes will mostly just use sweet spices like cinnamon/clove/cardamom, some will just use mustard/black pepper/chili powder, some dishes will use butter or ghee and some dishes will use coconut oil, and so on.

Each region of India will focus on different spices and ingredients, if you want a better idea just look up how each region flavors its food.

>>10794591
I watch a lot of different dishes from this Indian chef on youtube, from all over India and even though certain ingredients are different, I find that the spices largely repeat to an extent.

What about Sri Lankan food?

Am I the only one who likes Southern Indian chicks more than Northern Indian ones?

>>10794599
There's an overlap but certain spices will still get used in different amounts to create different flavors. Coriander, turmeric, chili powder, and garam masala are used often but if you change the amounts and add in another spice it can make it taste pretty different.

>>10794629
Are there other spices that get used besides the ones you mentioned?

>>10794627
Mate just google south indian girls and north indian girls
South indians girls look like niggers

>>10794666
I'm not even racist against black people, but you're still wrong. This chick is Sri Lankan (which is similar to South Indian)

>>10794625

So is MIA, and she has a lickable asshole

can we all agree that Indian women have the best soles?

>>10794639
Cumin, coriander, chili powder, turmeric, and garam masala are most common (garam masala being a mix of black pepper, cardamom, clove, and nutmeg), but this is a more complete list of everything that gets used:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_spices

>>10794879
>(garam masala being a mix of black pepper, cardamom, clove, and nutmeg)
cinnamon too*

>>10790432

>Bland grease shit
>Existed on fast food

I see where you went wrong here.

>>10780635
>live in india for 6 months for work purposes

You mean training your replacements?

>>10795169
>everyone is a help desk monkey like me

I'm gonna order Indian for lunch today, this place looks pretty good.

Can someone give me a recommendation of what to get?

https://www.ubereats.com/new-york/food-delivery/baadshah-indian-restaurant/LpbJKyNhS5SkPPYA3JZXQg/

>>10795448
Would any of you recommend fish curry?

>>10794879
I was expecting the list to be longer. Maybe there are less spices in existencd than I thought

Just tried Shrimp Saagwalla

>>10797888
And damn it was good, surprised it was that hot though