Rosepetal your recipe for curry i wont be beaten

Lol no anc I got the spices in Hackney and there’s a specialist Vietnamese shop there which was fascinating and got loads of cheap spices and dried mushrooms and stuff. I only went to Oxford Street shopping with sons partner then for a manicure because he thinks thats what mums should do ! :lol:

@anc wrote:

If you say so, but that is not what it says if you google it!

I got it from one of Madhur Jaffrey’s recipe books, but here it is from Wikipedia:

Vindaloo or vindalu (Konkani) is a dish originally from Goa, India. The term vindaloo derives from the Portuguese dish “Carne de Vinha d’ Alhos”, which is a dish of meat, usually pork, with wine and garlic. The dish evolved into the vindaloo curry dish when it received the Goan treatment of adding plentiful amounts of traditional spice and using malt vinegar instead of red wine. 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.

There are various similar explanations of origin on other websites too.
Regardless of where it comes from, the curries we have in this country bear little relation to the curries that are traditional to India, but isn’t that what makes cooking even supposed “international” dishes so interesting, all the regional differences and adaptations?

Whatever its origins, enjoy your curry Rose, and I think I would have been the same as you were in Oxford Street – my idea of hell! :wink: :lol: