#Indian food

[toyastales]

Smoked Chicken Tikka Drumsticks

[daily-deliciousness]

Butter chicken (murgh makhani)

[lustingfood]

Butter Chicken & Garlic Naan (x)

[ferrantte]

some favourite bowls from alexacooksme's instagram 🥘

[fatty-food]

Butter Chicken Recipe

[everybody-loves-to-eat]

[julieterbang]

bowls_breakfast_

[scr4n]

Chicken madras with cheesy garlic naan, fried rice and chicken pakora 🇮🇳🔥

[viejospellejos]

Soft Garlic Naan & Chicken Butter:

¿Hay hambre?

[everythingwithwasabi]

Garden Vegetable Curry

[m4movies]

Fajita MOOD

[amazzingfood]

[daily-deliciousness]

Butter chicken (murgh makhani)

[lustingfood]

Creamiest Butter Chicken (x)

[petermorwood]

@dduane watched thiis with me, then announced "You can make those any time you like".

That sounds like A Hint. :->

She was talking more about the Aloo Tikki than the chutneys, since one has dates and tamarind (fruit sugars) and the other has chickpeas (pulses), both of which are on her IBS "Be Very Very Careful" list, even more so after last week's incident.

Spicy crunchy potato fritters, on the other hand, get a green light all the way.

*****

An added bonus to these videos is Bumbi's pleasant voice, which reminds me of Hari Sarpal Singh's mum from my schooldays in the early 1970s, when I first discovered I had a taste for Indian food, and Mrs S gave me some tuition about how to do it right. (I posted about that a few years ago, here.)

Back then there was, IIRC, only one Indian restaurant in the whole of Northern Ireland, proper ingredients including the most basic spices were very hard to find, and where Mrs S got hers, I never thought to ask - by post from relatives in England, probably, or perhaps even further afield.

Vencat (later Sharwoods) curry powder was available at Sawer's delicatessen counter in Belfast, near my Dad's office, but "making" my own home-made curry in NI usually meant nothing more elaborate than reconstituting a pack of dehydrated Vesta in boiling water.

They did other things besides curry, and the Vesta range may have been my "cooking with foreign foods" equivalent of learning to ride a motorbike, starting out like this...

...and finishing like this.

I've never ridden a big motorbike in my life, but I can certainly cook a lot better than when I started. I've got my own masala grinder and everything...

:->

[fatty-food]

Chicken Tikka Masala (via Instagram)