India is a vast# country.It has many states.Each state is unique in its# traditions and very importantly in food curries.Food is still a very important activity of #woman in India .Food #diversity in India is absolutely mind-boggling so is Indian curries.I am fond of cooking.Being chemistry teacher I enjoy making my own recepies and I also do try them as and when I get time. We Indian make different type of curries.We friendssome time do discuss different curries, different curries
or #gravies in our Indian cooking methods..My friend Asha
wanted me to write number of different curries
in form of little #article so that she could send the same
to her daughter living in #USA. I wrote short summary
of different Indian curries.My submission is following
The #Western and outside world thinks Indian curry is just one #reddish oily one, either it is veg or# nonveg.
But it is not so. We have the following types of curries, depending on the main# ingredients.Few I am listing below.
1.Regular ground onion, red chillies, tomato curry.. Like in chicken curry
2.Mashed lentils (dhals) chilly powder, tamarind gravy.. Like in #sambaar
3.Plain mashed dhal with red chillies and ghee…as in# dhal tadka
4.Onion, green chillies, tomato curry.. Tomato gravy for rice and# chapathis
5.Onion, chilly powder, tomato curry.. Like in potato -# peas gravy
6.Onion, chilly powder, tamarind curry.. As in Chennai dish# kara kuzhambu or Madras spicy red gravy
7.Onion, green chillies, coconut paste curry.. Like in# kurumas, Kerala gravies
8.Red chillies, tamarind, coconut curry.. Like# Mangalore gravies
9.Onion, chillies, cashew/almond paste,/cream curry.. Like #Lucknowy and Kashmiri curries
10.Bengal gram green chillies ground together with curd added last…#Tamil butter milk gravy
11.Bengal gram powder, curd, green chillies curry… As in # Punjabi kadi
12.Onion, black pepper and tamarind curry.. Milagu kozhambu..#Tamilian pepper gravy,
Moral of Story-Friends We need one chilly/ pepper type, one base and one #sour balancer or sweet balancer.
The base can be onion,cooked dhal, #bengal gram paste, ground coconut,tomato, curds, tamarind, fresh cream, almond or cashew or# poppy seeds.Sukarma TharejaAlumnus IITKIndia
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