What's your cuisine like abroad?!
What's your cuisine like abroad?
Aware that Spaghetti Bolognese would make an Italian curious and Chicken Madras an Indian perplexed! And those are very popular dishes in the UK!
So how is your local food done abroad? Always wondered what a Neapolitan thinks of BBQ chicken on a pizza!
2 days ago
D2B - er you rather missed the point. Im not after recipie ideas here (far from it!) More interested in cultural interpretations. Oh well
Answers: 2 days ago
D2B - er you rather missed the point. Im not after recipie ideas here (far from it!) More interested in cultural interpretations. Oh well Hiya GL,
Thanks for posing the question. It is an interesting query and I would look forward to the replies.
Am an Indian but for some time have been in France. In a span of 6 years I just went to Indian restaurants in France just twice....Twice, yes cause the Indian cusine or whatever they concoct in name of Indian cusine has remotely something to do with what we eat back home.
But I think when you open an exotic restaurant in a foreign country, you tend to accomodate the cuisine to local taste buds. Still apart from the fact that the cuisine is mildly spicy, it is rich in gravies and oil....nothing like this back home.
My dream would be to open up a restautant, a quaint one though and offer the locals an insight into the heartland, cusisne unpretentious as it is....as it is had back home.
No tikkas (as you rightly put it a brit invention) and no nonsensical curries (haha!!! curry out here is associated with turmeric powder).
Anyways, thanks again for asking this question. This is a recipe for Persian cuisine which i make all the time. hope u like it and it gives u some ideas:
Chicken breast cooked with Onion, Tomato paste and Saffron
Ingredients:
* 4 Chicken breast, without skin
* 1 large Onion, thinly slices
* 2 tbsp Tomato paste, dissolved in 200 ml of hot water
* 1/4 tsp Turmeric
* 1 tsp Saffron, dissolved in 2 tbsp of hot water
* 1 tbsp Olive/Vegetable oil
* 20 g Butter, unsalted
* Salt and Pepper
Method:
* Heat the oil and butter in a saucepan and saute onions for 3-4 minutes until golden.
* Lay chicken breasts over the onions in the pan, then pour over the tomato puree and season with salt, pepper and turmeric. Cook the chicken covered for 10 minutes over low heat, stirring occasionally.
* Pour over the dissolved saffron and mix well. Cook for another 5 minutes uncovered until sauce has thickened.
* Serve with boiled rice or mash potatoes. Hi
In India we had
* pizza that was very hot from the chillies
* raspberry ice cream made with
blueberries
* quite decent hamburgers ...no pickles, tho ... and very strange tasting ketchup ...
* unbelievably good peanut butter
* Canadian bacon for breakfast with eggs and really decent toast ...but in a 5-star hotel (old-fashioned Indian architecture, overlookin a swimming pool, sigh ....)
* fantastic coffee... and real cream
* tea: arf!
* peanut brittle ...called "chickies" ..
and decent enough!
* Chinese food ...not really up to snuff, which is surprising, since China is a hop, skip, and a jump away from India ... ...but, decent
* beer: decent Indian beer
* gorgeous fruit.. on the spot heaven!
* nice French fries
* fun sodas like Limca, 7&7, Thumbs Up ...
* rice pudding: Khir, so called ...but flavored with cardamom instead of cinnamon, as is usual where I live (USA)