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Originally Posted by Cyclefrance
This might set a reasonable benchmark above which virtually any other dish would sit - anyone disagree?
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Crikey me. I'm unhealthy. I hold my hands up. But even I balk at that. Doner in naan - yes please, nom, nom, nom. But the rest? Heart attack in a box. And for the record, when I was eating 'babs (joke there, as bab means poo) I always asked for just a little meat, and not even a full salad with it (real salad, not Scottish). I always offered to pay full price, which is why the local purveyors of spicy lamb were all very nice to me.
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Originally Posted by Pie
I am Indian (at least as far as food goes) and I wouldn't ever consider Alton Brown's curry to be either good or authentic.
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Being very English, I have to agree it doesn't look great. I've eaten enough real Indian curry to know what's what. And enough faux curry to know what works. And my Mum's vegetable curry, which an Indian lady she worked with taught her in the 70s... nothing like real curry, just something generic and safe for a British family. It involved a pressure cooker for a start... Still, it got vegetables down our throats.
We grew up with quite a varied menu because Mum was a hospital cleaner until my brother started school (the shifts fit in with Dad's). She worked with mostly Italian, Polish and (one) Indian women. They were all feeding families on a budget and all (except again, the Indian - sorry) Catholic. So they swapped recipes and tips. Mum taught the mysteries of Yorkshire Puddings to any number of colleages. Even at the time I wondered how - when hers were so flabby!
Then again, I taught my Mum how to cook Mexican food. And you'd fall about laughing if you saw what we called Mexican.
UT - not to speak for Pie, but sour cream will serve equally well in this recipe. It's a flavour of India rather than an authentic curry (lile my mexican) so use whatever works. I don't know about India, but sour cream is still an unusual item in this country, so yoghurt is the default. I can't see that there's an awful lot of difference here.