Sri Lankan Cuisine - Curry, Biryani, Cuisine of Sri Lanka, Appam, Puri, Kiribath, Rice and Curry, Idiyappam, Kottu, Watalappam, Dal Bhat (Paperback)

Chapters: Curry, Biryani, Cuisine of Sri Lanka, Appam, Puri, Kiribath, Rice and Curry, Idiyappam, Kottu, Watalappam, Dal Bhat, Lunu Miris, Jaadi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 60. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Curry (IPA: ) is a generic description used throughout European culture to describe a general variety of spiced dishes, best known in South Asian cuisines, especially Indian cuisine. Although there is no one specific attribute that marks a dish as "curry," some distinctive spices used in many curry dishes include turmeric, cumin, coriander, fenugreek, and red pepper. The word curry is an anglicised version of the Tamil word khari ( ), which is usually understood to mean "gravy" or "sauce" rather than "spices." In most South Indian cuisines, a curry is considered a side-dish, which can be eaten along with a main dish like rice or bread. In Pakistan and North India, where dishes are classified as sukhi (dry) and tari (with liquid), the word curry is often confounded with the similar-sounding Hindi-Urdu word tari (from the Persian-derived tar meaning wet) and has no implications for the presence or absence of spice, or whether the dish is Indian or not (e.g. any stew, spicy or not, would be considered a curry dish, simply because it is wet). In Urdu, an official language of Pakistan and North India, curry is usually referred to as saalan (). The equivalent word for a spiced dish in Hindi-Urdu is masaledar (i.e. with masala). This article covers curry in the British sense of the term. Curry's popularity in recent decades has spread outward from the Indian subcontinent to figure prominently in international cuisine. Consequently, each culture has adopted spices in its indigenous cooking to suit its own unique tastes and cultural sensibilities. Curry can therefore be called a p...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=659