Vindaloo
Vindaloo is an East Indian curry dish. It is popular globally in its Anglo-Indian form as a staple of curry house menus, often renowned as a particularly spicy dish, though it is not necessarily always the hottest available. The name Vindaloo is derived from the Portuguese dish "Carne de Vinha d' Alhos", which is a dish of meat, usually pork, with wine and garlic. [1] The dish was originally modified in Mumbai by the substitution of wine with malted sugarcane vinegar, and the addition of red Kashmir chillies (not as spicy but abundant in colour). The dish evolved into the vindaloo curry dish in Goa, with the addition of plentiful amounts of traditional spice and using malt vinegar instead of red wine.[2] Alternate terms are vindalho or vindallo. Restaurants often serve this dish with chicken or lamb sometimes mixed with potatoes. Traditional vindaloos do not include potatoes, the discrepancy arising because the word "aloo" means "potato" in Hindi.[3]
Vindaloo is a popular dish in many parts of India. The dish has gained popularity in Britain, Germany, the Middle East, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, where it is almost universally featured on Indian restaurant menus. The Vindaloo served in western restaurants is really just a version of the standard "medium" restaurant curry with additional chilli, often including potatoes.[4] It is usually one of the hottest dishes available on the menu where it is served, although some establishments offer a hotter "Tindaloo", which is another completely different dish originating in Bangladesh.[4]
In eastern states of India viz. Orissa and West Bengal the same dish (not referred as Vindaloo) is prepared for marriage parties as well as at home. The idea behind adding potatoes in lamb curry is that lamb meat is costlier than chicken in India (apprximately three times more expensive than chicken), so potatoesare used to add bulk at lower cost.[citation needed] According to folklore, a cook by mistake added more salt to the lamb curry. To balance the salt quantity in the curry he added some boiled potatoes. Since then it has become a practice to add potatoes to goat curry or lamb curry in Orissa and West Bengal.
The popularity of the dish inspired the song "Vindaloo", the unofficial anthem of the England football team for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and it was prominently mentioned in the 1978 punk rock song, "I Just Want to Have Something To Do," by American punk rock group the Ramones. It is also the favourite food of Dave Lister in the science-fiction comedy Red Dwarf, and is frequently depicted in the show. It was mentioned on the American TV show Outsourced where the main character Todd was tricked into the believing there was an Indian holiday honoring this dish.
References
- ^ The History of Vindaloo....Recipe for Pork Vindaloo and Coconut Rice Anglo-Indian Food. Accessed 29-11-10
- ^ "How to cook a vindaloo - students learn from the best". Thames Valley University. Retrieved 29 September 2007.
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- ^ a b Pat Chapman (2004). The New Curry Bible. London, UK: Metro Publishing Ltd. pp. 118–121. ISBN 978 1 84358 087 4.
External links
- Recipe for Chicken Vindaloo and Vindaloo Paste
- Goa Food Pork Vindaloo recipe
- Chicken Vindaloo recipe referring to this page on Forkd
