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Indian Curry Recipes
What is
curry?
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Indian Curry Recipes - If you take a quick look at
all the products on one of the many
typical Western supermarket shelf with "curry" in
their name you would easy come to the concussion
that Indian curry, and all curry's for that
matter, contained spices. Indeed, many people
would define curry as a spicy dish from India (Indian
Curry). Yet the word "curry" is not used as such in any
of the scores of languages from the Indian
sub-continent.
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You see, the name or term "curry" really
isn't used in India, except as a term appropriated
by the British to generically categorize a large set of
different soup/stew preparations ubiquitous in India and
nearly always containing the ingredients ginger, garlic,
onion, turmeric, chile, and oil. This prepared Indian
dish must have seemed all the same to the British,
being all yellow/red, oily, spicy/aromatic. So All
Indian Curry Recipes and dishes were given an
all-encompassing blanket term - "Curry". In the
west, curry is now usually characterised by the type of
curries and Indian curry recipes popularised by
restaurants. My definition of a restaurant curry is
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"A dish made with dried and fresh spices cooked in
oil with a sauce made from pureed onions, garlic and
ginger. The variety of spices used can be vast but the
most common spices used are chilli, cumin, coriander and
turmeric. Other common ingredients are yoghurt, cream
and ground nuts."
The Curry Addiction
Indian Curry Recipes - A number of
studies have claimed that the reaction of pain receptors
to the hotter ingredients in curries, even a Korma
curries, leads to the body's release of endorphines.
Combined with the complex sensory reaction to the
variety of curry spices and flavours, a natural high is
achieved that causes subsequent cravings, often followed
by a desire to move on to hotter curries.Some refer to
this as curry addiction. Additionally, curry
addiction is an example of a colloquial use of the
word "addiction" as the medical definition of the word
requires continued use despite harmful
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