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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
What would you consider Indian, Pie?
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Sure, there's a zillion different definitions for what's 'Indian' food, just like... say, Italian, or Chinese. There are as many variations as there are grandmothers.
However, most of what I see here is 'restaurant food', stuff no one would make or eat at home. Lots of grease and indigestion.
I'm south Indian (by genetics, at least!) so I'd consider 'real' Indian food to be iddlies, dosas, sambar, rasam, paruppu, dry veggie curries, yogurt or buttermilk. Lots of plain basmati rice. Uthappams, upma, fresh fruit. No sweets unless it's a festival day. (Sweets were a brit invention dontchaknow, but would include laddu, milk kova, coconut laddu.) Gonkura pickle, lemon pickle, my grandmother's hot mango pickle. Aviyal. Sweet or mooru kolambu. Thayir sadam. Khichdi. Murukkus. Coconut, coriander, onion or gonkura pachadi. Ghee in moderation.
Veggies might include potals, eggplants, green beans, potatoes, capsicum, okra, tomatoes, bittergourd, sweet potato, onions, squash of different sorts, bananaflower, jackfruit... Mostly stir-fried with chilies, ginger, mustard seed, dried chilies, curry leaves and a few dried lentils and a pinch asafoetida. Note: curry leaves have nothing to do with curry powder.
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