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Chef Meherwan Irani joins WIRED to provide expert answers to your Indian food and curry questions from Twitter. How does food vary from region to region of India? What makes a curry a curry, exactly? Which spices are indispensable for a beginner chef taking on Indian cuisine? And why is Indian food traditionally served so often with yogurt? Watch Chef Irani answer these questions (and many more) on Indian Food Support.
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@aniketdigar8634 11 месяцев назад

The fact that his last name is Irani. A Zoroastrian whose ancestors fled Iran and found refuge in India. And now he is as much a part of the Indian Soul as anyone else is absolutely amazing. When you have that in context its really something how he owns the Indian culture and food. 🔥🔥🔥

@cozwhynot_atall 11 месяцев назад

This needs to be higher up! Love their food and how much it has given to our cuisine!

@bgsash242 11 месяцев назад

Parsi?? The same origin As Freddie Mercury?

@cjk9988 11 месяцев назад

@@bgsash242 yepp!

@acrux4556 11 месяцев назад

Parsi people are real gems to our Indian society.

@KaritKtana 11 месяцев назад

*whose

@seapigoinkoink 11 месяцев назад

I love how this guy is not pretentious at all, just wants us to enjoy Indian food as much as he does. What a Rockstar 💫

@brenda5511 11 месяцев назад

He is! He’s very knowledgeable and you can tell how much he loves cooking and talking about Indian food. And now I’m hungry!

@imswaathik 11 месяцев назад

He is pretentious. He said Indians eat with hands because of poverty. That’s simply not true.

@donotreply8979 11 месяцев назад

@@imswaathik did you hurt your back reaching that far?

@leonprowse5806 11 месяцев назад

This is what I look for in a TV chef, doing it for the love of the food

@anjusree1561 11 месяцев назад

Not pretentious eh ?? Literally be like cheeken tikkah mmmmsala

@kylelee3576 11 месяцев назад

Get this guy his own show ASAP. I need to listen to him talk about and cook Indian food for at least another 12 hours.

@pan_salceson 11 месяцев назад

Please, do it.

@huskaroar6869 11 месяцев назад

You realise that most of what he said is half baked and clearly he hasn't done his research when it comes to history and culture of indian cuisine?

@youarecorrectandiamwrong.8646 11 месяцев назад

@@huskaroar6869he has done far more than you have at least

@indrajitgupta3280 11 месяцев назад

Totally agree!

@arindamn4880 11 месяцев назад

@@huskaroar6869 if he shares all his knowledge, then it would be a 3 hour episode

@Venkateshwaran_M 11 месяцев назад

5:37 Small correction: Indians didn't start eating with hand because of poverty, infact even kings of queens of various Indian dynasties used to eat with their hand. Its just a tradition because of its simplicity.

@imswaathik 11 месяцев назад

It’s based on Ayurvedic principles. And when you sit on the floor and eat off a banana leaf, you can’t eat with a utensil. Nothing would be as agile as your hands.

@siddharthmehta6220 11 месяцев назад

I don't care much for pseudoscience, but I am absolutely convinced food tastes better when eaten with hands, especially Indian food

@Harshiahaha 11 месяцев назад

@@siddharthmehta6220fc! While I was in school, my parents used to place spoons in the lunch. But after sometime me and most of my friends kind of got sick of it and started to eat using hands and god then I realised how much comfort it is to eat with hands.

@vidhisharma6898 11 месяцев назад

I recall one of my undergraduate teachers talking about an encounter she had in France where she was asked, "Why do Indians eat with their hands?" I like her response, "Do you eat burger with a fork?" is a good one. The majority of Indian cuisine is solely meant to be eaten that way; it's yes, simpler and easier.

@shashankbj3804 11 месяцев назад

@@siddharthmehta6220 Not much of it is pseudoscience, although there are very less studies... most of them that exist support that eating with your hand is good for you. (related to enriching gut microbiomes)

@devanshikasabwala8763 11 месяцев назад

The cheesification of Indian street food happened because years ago cheese used to be a luxury but because of Amul it became a lot cheaper and easier for everyone to use it, suddenly everyone could get their hands onto processed cheese. So for the street food vendors it’s like serving luxurious one of a kind type of food.

@blackmamba9950 11 месяцев назад

It's mostly a Gujarati thing, and they brought it over to Mumbai. It's not common everywhere else

@bellthecat2629 11 месяцев назад

@@blackmamba9950I agree. It's a Gujarat thing, and Amul certainly helped but it also helped that lot of Gujaratis moved to USA, and brought back their love of cheese to India too.

@paranjoybasak8487 11 месяцев назад

Hope this cheesification don't reach in eastern India

@vic_710 10 месяцев назад

Yea and it's a price increaser, and looks good to the eyes. They can add 10 rs worth of cheese but make the original item +50 rs in price

@nahor88 10 месяцев назад

As an Indian-American, I seriously wish the cheesification happened sooner, LOL. Grilled cheese was a weekly staple in our household along with traditional Indian food. My parents would force us to go to India for a couple months every year, and we'd have no access to grilled cheese which was a huge bummer.

@jaydoggy9043 11 месяцев назад

I love his attitude. And I love the talk about the different regions and styles. India's a BIG place, and there are a LOT of people. There's no one type or style of Indian food, it's all where you are or who you're with. Just like the rest of earth.

@Pain53924 11 месяцев назад

@@repentandbelieveinJesusChrist8 Your reply has nothing to do with his comment. Common man forcing your religion on others

@ranjitbijoy 11 месяцев назад

8:41 correction here, curry is an anglicized version of the south indian tamil word kari that means gravy .the brits picked it up and during the great wars went along to all parts of south east asia . The western concept of curry may be not be so old but the tamil dish is not very young

@bunny-dg8vk 11 месяцев назад

even in north india gravy dishes are called ‘kadhi’ because they’re made in a vessel called ‘kadhai’. many also say this is how curry came into existence.

@Jana_San_SS 11 месяцев назад

@@bunny-dg8vkeven in the East, I can only talk about Bengal tho. "Torkari" is a word used to veg curries I think the same word in Hindi is tarkari. Also the word in Bengali for kari or kadhi is jhol.

@sangareshwaran1139 11 месяцев назад

@@bunny-dg8vk so you're telling kadhai transformed as curry?

@abhinandankumargupta-xm6dp 11 месяцев назад

its called kadhi in north india as well

@manojpatra2840 11 месяцев назад

@@Jana_San_SS nope, Jhol is Stew. Macher Jhol is Stew. Bengali for curry is torkari only.

@InternetGirl1093 11 месяцев назад

For me, Indian cuisine is in the global top 3, along with Mexican and Italian. They all did it RIGHT!

@jackkerry4137 11 месяцев назад

I literally say the same thing, top 3 hands down

@ecenbt 11 месяцев назад

This list needs the addition of french, Chinese and Turkish, and the top cuisines list is complete

@SurrealExposure12 11 месяцев назад

Insane W

@SHAILESH506 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely, me too!!

@haruzanfuucha 11 месяцев назад

I would switch out Italian for Chinese.

@lokpradeepraghavan9777 11 месяцев назад

Just a note. South Indians always flips their dosas(unless it has some stuffing), and we dont always use a big stick of butter instead we prefer sesame oil which serves the exact same purpose(makes the edges crispy and doesnt let the dosa to sitck to the pan)

@ishanthezombiekillingpogch6322 11 месяцев назад

I agree with everything, but sesame oil?? isn't a neutral oil like sunflower or vegetable better?

@astra4598 11 месяцев назад

@@ishanthezombiekillingpogch6322bro sesame oil is a vegetable oil, wdym?

@lokpradeepraghavan9777 11 месяцев назад

@@ishanthezombiekillingpogch6322 oh yes thats true i just mentioned sesame since its the first thing that came to my mind.......

@ishanthezombiekillingpogch6322 11 месяцев назад

@@astra4598 , but it is not a neutral oil, and for dosas you want to use an oil that is neutral in flavor otherwise it can ruin them. It is not the right ingredient for this type of cooking.

@timothyb3893 10 месяцев назад

@@ishanthezombiekillingpogch6322 as a tamilian, i have always used sesame oil

@debashreegoswami 11 месяцев назад

It’s a pity that the entire northeast was not mentioned. We have a very distinct cuisine.

@Violethaze20 11 месяцев назад

Agreed. It is an entirely different and unique cuisine and should have been mentioned.

@mrudulasrivatsa 11 месяцев назад

I really thought that's what the person who asked about east indian meant north east spices but looks like he misunderstood the question

@Pastaonquack 11 месяцев назад

For real. I was waiting for him to talk about Northeast India. But oh well its not surprising that most people, Indians included don't know much about us.

@drunkpervertedmonk 11 месяцев назад

PART TWO!

@batmanjangra8206 11 месяцев назад

Ye bro he should have mentioned about East Indian cousin it is totally different than rest of India

@pramitd7761 11 месяцев назад

I am an indian and I will say he just barely scratched the surface. There are millions of combinations and recipes throughout the whole country. Even I discover new recipes every year when I even slightly change the region for my vacation trip.

@nivnara 11 месяцев назад

Some of it wasn't too factual either.

@pramitd7761 11 месяцев назад

@@nivnara Like what?!

@TaataGeo 11 месяцев назад

Sounds like u hate a fellow Indian

@rkang6531 10 месяцев назад

@@pramitd7761He said a lot of incorrect/half baked things. 1)Indians eat with their hands because their ancestors were poor (It's like an ignorant white person is explaining eating w/ hands to another white person). 2)Garam Masala is a "must-have" for Indian food. No it isn't, even in the North and West parts of the country. It's important sometimes, sure, but not must have. Raw spices (what we call khade masale) and knowledge is a must have. 3) Mumbai is the street food capital LOL. Kolkata easily comes on top it's not even close. 4) Tamarind red chutney is the ketchup for Indians??? Wtf? Ketchup is ketchup for Indians, Red chutney is used VERY differently than westerners use ketchup. And i could go on with the list but it'd be too long.

@rainzerdesu 11 месяцев назад

Loved that he touched on one of the most pervasive myths in cooking recipes when he mentions caramelizing onions take time. All these recipes including Food Network saying 5-10 minutes. Your curry takes a long time because caramelizing onions takes 45 minutes.

@aleenaprasannan2146 11 месяцев назад

I just recently learnt a tip to speed up caramelizing onions- add baking soda

@katierasburn9571 11 месяцев назад

@@aleenaprasannan2146and a pinch of salt! It draws the moisture out of the onions, forcing them to caramelise faster! Thats science

@newbie4789 11 месяцев назад

@@aleenaprasannan2146 even salt works. Especially if you are gonna add salt later on in the dish, you can add a little bit with the onions to make the process faster.

@Antaios632 10 месяцев назад

@@aleenaprasannan2146 this works really well, but it does change the texture of the onions. It makes them fall apart and turn kind of "jammy." That may or may not be a problem depending on what you're making. For example, I wouldn't do it for French onion soup because I want the onions to retain some texture. In other dishes (like if you're going to blend it up smooth anyway), it might be exactly what you're going for.

@drefrazier4266 Месяц назад

Yeah same with garlic. "30 seconds to a minute or until fragrant." It takes way longer than that. It won't burn if you lower the heat and stir frequently. Let it toast in the oil/butter til it's golden brown and the sulphur smell is completely gone.

@oguilglez 11 месяцев назад

We need a tech support vid on the person that selects these people. They are always so charismatic!

@venkatn9634 11 месяцев назад

Thoroughly enjoyed Chef Irani’s responses. He’s not exaggerating when he compared the subcontinent to Europe. Think in terms of regions when exploring Indian cuisine, and there’s a lot more than can be covered in a ~15-minute video. I hope @Wired brings him back to do a Part 2 (and more, hopefully).

@Duh_3298 11 месяцев назад

In Malabar region, they don't use basmati rice for biriyani, they use a much smaller alternative called jeerakalsala rice or khyma rice. The Kozhikode, thalasseri and Malappuram biriyanis are heaven!!

@nivnara 11 месяцев назад

Most southern Indian biryanis (besides the ubiquitous, fragrant but over-hyped hyderabadi biryani) use a different variety of rice. In TN, it is jeeraga samba, which I find is infinitely better than basmati for the style of spicy biryani we have down south.

@Feisty123 11 месяцев назад

kozhikode mentioned Pog, best biryani easily imo tho hyderabadi with basmati isn't bad

@divineflu34567 11 месяцев назад

@@nivnarauthentic biryani is Hyderabadi rest of it is pulao rice and meat cooking together in one pot is not a biryani but pulao

@subramaniamramasubramanian877 10 месяцев назад

And just regular rice in the south is often ponni. Either boiler or raw rice.

@nivnara 10 месяцев назад

@@divineflu34567 Whatever the definition, as per purists, it is still called biryani, and it is still better than the over-rated hyderabadi biryani.

@ajd3391 11 месяцев назад

This might be one of the best Tech Supports ever. Learned a ton about a cuisine I already love!

@nataliaparra8229 11 месяцев назад

I’ve never tried Indian food but now I want to try it sooo bad!

@Smittenhamster 11 месяцев назад

Ohhhh you're in for a treat. Indian is one of my favourite cuisines!

@justayoutuber1906 11 месяцев назад

Butter chicken with naan. OMG! Delish

@indianjanesmith 11 месяцев назад

A lot of Indian food is vegetarian, so if u want to go veg, indian cuisine is a great choice. Fair warning: I am Indian and vegetarian so my opinion is biased 😅

@rsanghi24 11 месяцев назад

I have a major sweet tooth, so am gonna recommend a desert for you. Try my favourite desert, "gulab jamun".

@katierasburn9571 11 месяцев назад

@@justayoutuber1906cant go wrong with butter chicken for a beginner

@Cheesegoddess 11 месяцев назад

Chef Meherwan Irani was so great! I loved hearing him explain things and talk about the food. Even cooking up some to show us! I would love to have him back to learn more about Indian cuisine!

@VeggieNatureGirl 11 месяцев назад

So informative! I did my study abroad in London and found my love of Indian food there! Fortunately found a few really good spots here in the US too :)

@darcybhaiwala7057 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for talking about the atrocity that is cheese on everything streetwise in India. And they have the audacity to call it "pizza vada pav" just because there is an inch of cheese melted on top of any dish

@MahiMahi-yu5jo 11 месяцев назад

That seems like a you problem

@indianjanesmith 11 месяцев назад

I think it's a personal choice. I love Amul cheese, but my Mum wouldn't touch anything cheesy. In Mumbai, some people like cheese toast sandwich, cheese vada pav, and cheese pav bhaji, while others prefer the regular versions. I think they are all awesome. Plus, Amul cheese is pure vegetarian - perfect for those of us who can't eat fancy non-veg, beef rennet-based imported cheeses

@amaya3107 11 месяцев назад

I've seen that too 😂 and a mountain of cheese that is

@abhisheksathe123 11 месяцев назад

i can understand that some people like it on vada paav but ive seen videos where they put cheese in misal paav as well bruh wtf 😭😭

@LilacSreya 11 месяцев назад

@@indianjanesmithDairy products aren’t “veg”. 🙄

@pm6127 11 месяцев назад

He didn't mention the fact that basmati isn't your everyday rice. It's expensive. We use normal length rice like sela, Sona, tukda, indrayani etc for everyday purpose

@aidenbooksmith2351 11 месяцев назад

That's interesting. In my country, Lebanon, my mom considers any rice other than Basmati to be inferior and is willing to take the hit in the price difference because she just wouldn't go for any other kind of rice. So for me, it is indeed an everyday rice

@sanjivinsmoke2719 9 месяцев назад

@@aidenbooksmith2351 yeah. It's the king of rice. If you can afford it it's the best out of the rice alternatives in most situation. I say most because some dishes might require a different type of rice

@pm6127 9 месяцев назад

@@aidenbooksmith2351 that's not true tbh.. we have hundreds of varieties of rice & each serve a different purpose.. for example, I can eat kolam rice everyday but can't do the same for basmati.. it's just too much flavour.

@robertolsson86 11 месяцев назад

Born and live in glasgow, the chicken tikka masala is awesome, i love garlic tikka masala nan and pakora 🤤 Indian cooking change the way i cook once i started to learn. It gave me so much more confidence, always felt intimidated by how much prep goes into but now i am cool with it 👍

@dennis65 10 месяцев назад

Stop behaving like a 12year old girl, Robert .

@anirudh2704 10 месяцев назад

@@dennis65 Robert has lost it.

@dennis65 10 месяцев назад

@@anirudh2704 Don't waste my time .

@AC-hu5tg 11 месяцев назад

Give this guy a show! So delightful ❤

@eczemmaa 11 месяцев назад

loved this video!! shows how indian food isn’t homogenous and there are many different types, combos, and inspirations that go into one of the most flavorful foods i’ve ever had !!

@yashkaushik4992 11 месяцев назад

As a person who has lived in both Delhi and Mumbai for ten years(among other cities), I have to say Delhi is the pound for pound GOAT when it comes to food and it's not close.

@jaigracejjoy 11 месяцев назад

What have you eaten in Delhi bro, I'm in Delhi rn and want to try out some great stuff

@debadritagupta6364 11 месяцев назад

Chole bhature, Matar Kulcha and momos and parathas must have

@ranjanbiswas3233 11 месяцев назад

Mumbai is just normal street food with excess of cheese, butter and weird stuffs.

@akashpatil7662 10 месяцев назад

Yep, Delhi hands down does street food better

@randyorton7855 10 месяцев назад

finally somebody said it, this guys is saying things which looks pleasing to the ears and is very biased imo.

@kingmannar69 11 месяцев назад

Do more of indian food, part 2 waiting

@prizegotti 11 месяцев назад

I don't know how true this is, but we were always told Indian people who use their hands to eat always use the right hand, because you wipe your butt with the left hand, which is true for the majority of people (right handed people).

@JivanPal 11 месяцев назад

It's more of a Persian/Islamic thing (eating only with the right hand and cleaning only with the left hand is a basic hadith/dictum/commandment of Islam), but it's a convention that is also adhered to in many parts of India, though not as strictly.

@rohitanshukhilar1904 11 месяцев назад

@@JivanPalnaww we have very few lefty in this country

@smithakashyap8769 11 месяцев назад

As Hindus we eat with hands because each finger brings certain energy (like fore finger being Jupiter) to the food. It also helps enhance mind - body (stomach?) Connections & better feeling of fullness. Says so in ayurveda.

@Violethaze20 11 месяцев назад

@@JivanPalit’s been a part of Indian culture for as long as the time goes back.Not a recent concept in Indian subcontinent.

@smithakashyap8769 11 месяцев назад

@@JivanPal also before Islam conquered many regions - it has pagan cultures. Many pagan cultures are very similar to Indic cultures. So Islam simply absorbed it. That's all. The concept of understanding how hands impact energy absorption is in ayurveda for thousands of years before even the advent of Islam. A lot of this concept also gave birth to mudras in yoga, mudras in bharatnatyam etc..

@EmilyMusic3v3 11 месяцев назад

LOVED this video and cant wait for more videos of other cuisines!

@wot4606 11 месяцев назад

This guy is great. As an Englishman, I'm very familiar with Indian food, or at least the version of it we have in the UK, and it's so interesting to hear an expert speaking so passionately about his (delicious) subject.

@Gummylongtail 7 месяцев назад

same love my CTM

@indianjanesmith 11 месяцев назад

And thanks for mentioning the diversity of Indian food. There are so many differences, e.g. between maharashtrian, gujarati, punjabi, rajasthani, tamilian food that i have observed myself, both as a cook and a foodie...garam masala in punjabi, cumin in gujarati, curry leaves in tamilian, coconut in maharashtrian..all different, all wonderful...indian restaurants outside india serve only punjabi ("indian food")...such a pity

@Harshiahaha 11 месяцев назад

Most people forget to mention telugu cuisine tbh, while it's kinda same as tamil cuisine, telugu cuisine has more spice and flavours imo

@indianjanesmith 11 месяцев назад

@@Harshiahaha I personally love Andhra food because it's spiced with hot red chilli powder (the same reason why most people can't eat it)..I had a lovely thali in Bangalore 10+ yrs ago and still remember the tastes that made my tongue (and eyes!) water. And I recently discovered gongura pachadi - one of the best condiments I have ever eaten.

@Harshiahaha 11 месяцев назад

@@indianjanesmith yes! And that's one of the reasons why most of us telugu people miss telugu food when went to other states: it's not spicy enough!!

@aleenaprasannan2146 11 месяцев назад

@@HarshiahahaIs Andhra food and Telugu food different? I have only once had a proper meal in Andhra, and that was in Pulivendla

@Harshiahaha 11 месяцев назад

@@aleenaprasannan2146 both are same, I just referred to as telugu cuisine as it is easier than mentioning both states names. Same food and habits are seen in both telangana and andhra, except a few regional dishes, which are popular in a specific region. Hyderabadi cuisine is a bit different tho, while it has all the telugu food due to telugu people and Nizam and persian influence due to the Nizam kings who ruled over hyderabad. Ofc Hyderabadi cuisine is also modified and adapted into other parts of andhra and telangana, and hence the popularity of Biryani and haleem!

@djbubblegum9975 11 месяцев назад

I haven't had a lot of Indian food in my life but the passion this dude has for it makes me wanna try it out more. Plus it just looks really good too

@vanillac0ffeebean 11 месяцев назад

it is a delight!

@indianjanesmith 11 месяцев назад

Start with vadapav. It's the dish he put a lot of cheese on. It is an iconic street food of Mumbai and often known as the "indian burger" (albeit pure vegetarian and much cheaper than meat burgers)

@neunzehnvierundachtzig 10 месяцев назад

@@indianjanesmith Not as good as hamburgers. Would love if there was a meat filled one of it cause the buns tasted bland with the potatoes.

@pulkitjain2361 11 месяцев назад

Very knowledgeable and nuanced host! Good job finding and showcasing him, I hope people learn some about Indian food

@Keshin4539 11 месяцев назад

Absolutely fascinating! I love all this stuff.

@food_we_live 11 месяцев назад

Love the use of correct Indian map

@Elllovesmakeup 11 месяцев назад

He’s so smart! I love how he goes into the history, regionality and diversity of India! He does a great job of explaining the complexity and richness of Indian cuisines! This is eduction 🫶🏽

@ZiD680 11 месяцев назад

Indians r poor don't use utensils 😅

@ambertrunksies8083 11 месяцев назад

This was such a great video! I learned a ton. The host needs his own cooking show. ❤

@Bandoughha 11 месяцев назад

Love this guy. Energetic and informative.

@Omar-wq9dz 11 месяцев назад

Whenever I eat Indian, I always want naan with either seekh kebab or chicken tikka, or both. Chicken pakora is also pretty nice sometimes

@JillKnapp 11 месяцев назад

My friend once said "Every cuisine has a chicken mcnugget equivalent." Chicken pakora has entered the chat. (or the chaat? 😁) They're so tasty!

@_Amit_Sunil 11 месяцев назад

Ain't that a little dry, try something with a gravy to help the naan go down next time

@satyakisil9711 11 месяцев назад

I love how he shoed something like Bhel puri. People almost never talk about Indian snacks when it comes to street food.

@telebubba5527 11 месяцев назад

I love it, although for me it's a whole meal. But then I put more vegetables like cucumber and tomato in it, so it became more like a salade. I had bought two Haldiram's packages. I'd like to find some of those sauce bottles next time so I don't have to make the whole package in one go.

@adog3129 10 месяцев назад

I really love this guy. A real expert encourages what's fun and doesn't gatekeep.

@tobiolofintuyi381 11 месяцев назад

His restaurants in NC and Atlanta are so good! Really cool to see him answer these questions, especially with historical context.

@julienprevost5409 11 месяцев назад

I love this series ! Keep it up !

@alexanderallison7131 11 месяцев назад

This was superb. I just know Chef Meherwan's food is to die for.

@Smittenhamster 11 месяцев назад

What a likeable dude, and great explanations!

@dharmani_youtube 11 месяцев назад

Hands down one of the best interviews so far! Excellent in terms of quality of content 👏

@ashishroy8201 11 месяцев назад

Love this video can have a series of this

@pampoovey6722 11 месяцев назад

It's wild to me that some Americans don't see Indian food as popular. It's like soccer/football all over again.

@Onestonedbake 11 месяцев назад

Alot of Americans don't even see Indians as Asian. Don't waste your life worrying about their ignorance

@user-xt7og5vp8p 11 месяцев назад

This guy's energy is just awesome

@RPKD88 11 месяцев назад

He forgot to say that paratha can be stuffed too! It can be filled with potatoes, paneer, radish, cauliflower, or fenugreen! Very yummy. Also, a lot of people don't use the word "curry" because it's a western thing.

@coucoubrandy1079 11 месяцев назад

I'm not sure about that. I do know that the Portuguese called it kari because they heard it in South India. The British changed the spelling to curry

@RPKD88 11 месяцев назад

@@coucoubrandy1079 'kadi' is a completely different dish.

@coucoubrandy1079 11 месяцев назад

@@RPKD88 I wrote kari with a r . Not kadi, I don't know what that is.

@RPKD88 11 месяцев назад

@@coucoubrandy1079 I know you did, but some words in certain Indian language are written with a d in place of r, such as Punjabi. Even then, it doesn't change the fact that the British coined the term curry, it's better to refer to dishes by their actual name instead of being lazy and classifying them as 'curry' since many Indians don't use that anyway lmao.

@coucoubrandy1079 11 месяцев назад

@RPKD88 sorry, I didn't know that

@indrajitgupta3280 11 месяцев назад

So grounded and down to earth. Brilliant.

@PJ-bv9tc 11 месяцев назад

Really enjoyed listening to this. You know your stuff! Thanks for the great insight into your wonderful food.

@sillyymoi8273 11 месяцев назад

LOVED THIS

@buzzlightyear7752 11 месяцев назад

Loved this video. This guy is passionate about food, cooking n eating both. Very simple language, not at all pretentious. Overall great energy. PS: I would search for his restaurant n definitely go there when i m in that area.

@Simon-kc4ml 10 месяцев назад

Couldn't have found a better person. All beautifully explained with history and no bias.

@VoiceOfReason5487 11 месяцев назад

To answer Charles Finch's question, the four indispensable Indian spice powders are cumin, coriander, turmeric, and chili-- preferably Kashmiri for its deep red color and low spice level. These four spices, along with chopped onions, ginger, and garlic, form the foundation of most curries.

@phifflaren 11 месяцев назад

Indian food just hits different! Lucky to have a large diaspora of Indians in Sydney. Harris Park is awesome!

@mol_biologist30 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for mentioning Bengal and our passion for sweets!! ❤❤

@The8merp 11 месяцев назад

love this guys energy and his explanations were correct and to the point, please bring him for more videos

@mattshadow81 11 месяцев назад

I loved the explanations :D

@himimedak656 11 месяцев назад

great ep but aww man wish he could've shared atleast a lil bit ab north east india too since its sucha unique and underrated part of India

@Becausing 11 месяцев назад

I’m seeing a lot of similar comments, but it bears repeating. This guy is incredible! Great presentation style, a wealth of knowledge, and super charming.

@arsonfireuk 10 месяцев назад

These wired series are absolutely excellent. Love this guys passion.

@krishanverma8883 11 месяцев назад

Great video, I hope RU-vid recommends this to as many people as possible. Loved it and Love Indian Food!!

@sara-subramanian 11 месяцев назад

Great overview. One thing I wanted to point out though is that the presenter here states that "Unttl the 15th century, Indian food wasn't that spicy"! Wrong, this may be true of some parts of western India but not the south as they have enjoyed black pepper for thousands of years and were exporting it to Rome as early as 2400 years ago.

@MarcosPrevitali 10 месяцев назад

Black Pepper has no capsein, the effect has some similarities but it is not the same thing, it is drastically different to actual spicy food.

@sara-subramanian 10 месяцев назад

@@MarcosPrevitali yes, I agree that "capsaicin" containing plants including chilli peppers were introduced much later and have been adopted into Indian cuisine as well and for the "heat", but one has to remember that the word "spice" refers primarily to black pepper, cardamom, garlic, ginger, turmeric, fenugreek and coriander all of which were used in cooking in India several thousand years ago. There is a big difference between using plants to "heat up" your food versus "spicing" things up! I simply wanted to point that out. Cheers!

@Dr.BitchCraftt 11 месяцев назад

He's such a chill and easy going guy. Love him!

@richmondvand147 11 месяцев назад

more of this guy please XD he does a good job at explaining and is pretty chill

@xtho7999 2 месяца назад

One of the best ones! Ths guy is awesome

@guillaumedep1 11 месяцев назад

Love the explanations. One note on the word curry: it seems it was the Portuguese who first used it, borrowing the Goa term for the local spice blend in the 16th century. I had to look that up, but it appears in Martha Washington's cookbook which was mid to late 18th century.

@nutube6291 11 месяцев назад

Not just cheese, Indian sreetfood (North and West India specifically), these days, is loaded with mayonnaise, ketchup, and butter. Mayonnaise in particular is not healthy, especially the veg version as it is an oil emulsion-lot of oil.

@candlesbyalexandria 11 месяцев назад

I love Indian food ❤

@justayoutuber1906 11 месяцев назад

Makes you get better grades in math too

@devanwc23 10 месяцев назад

Excellent stuff. Well done and very informative

@ThomasBaxter 10 месяцев назад

I want more of this

@theunemployedmind 11 месяцев назад

Glad to see him use the actual Indian map. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@user16020 11 месяцев назад

As an Indian, I approve that caramelising Onions to perfection is the most time consuming, exhausting but coolest process in the making of a curry.

@salempasangasp 11 месяцев назад

12:18 one perfect example for this is the nalli nihari and paya both made with lamb shanks and legs. The curries are left to cook overnight if u want to make it in the traditional way imparting the flavours unto the bone marrow of the goat leg.

@frank118 11 месяцев назад

Great video. Thanks!

@captainianr 11 месяцев назад

I’m so glad I’m eating Indian tonight. I’m suddenly so hungry.

@SwatBeatsOfficial 11 месяцев назад

Love indian food but I don't know anybody else who does to go to dinner with me, so I learned to cook it for when I have the house to myself. I usually use cauliflower rice, and it's actually very similar without the carbs and arsenic that comes with rice.

@indianjanesmith 10 месяцев назад

Arsenic? What kind of poisonous rice have u been eating mate?! 😲 I am Indian - we cultivate and consume rice in massive quantities and I've never heard of arsenic in rice (or any arsenic-rice-related deaths!)

@indianjanesmith 10 месяцев назад

I've never heard of cauliflower rice either - it is not used in Indian cooking. I'd love to try it out though. If u are planning to make biryani, pulao or jeera rice, use Indian Basmati. For khichdi, use Indian short-grained rice like kolam or parimal. For plain steamed rice, any rice variety works.

@flatlo 10 месяцев назад

I would love to see more of this guy, and his Indian cooking

@BellaMichel 11 месяцев назад

This was such an informative video. What a great human. :)

@salempasangasp 11 месяцев назад

10:18 some spices that can almost be used in any indian dish are coriander powder, chilli powder, turmeric powder and garam masala. Just use it in this ratio 1 part chilli powder for 2 part coriander powder 1/2 part garam masala and turmeric in a pinch almost any dish will taste nice with this

@KooperHanghal99 11 месяцев назад

Disappointing that you didn't acknowledge Northeast India and its cuisine, which in fact, is very distinct.

@stormgg4052 11 месяцев назад

For that ne indians should influence rest of India, for that to happen catering business of ne side should prioritize other regions of india

@KooperHanghal99 11 месяцев назад

@@stormgg4052 thanks

@juxt_aposition9935 11 месяцев назад

@@KooperHanghal99I agree. Maybe due it being less accessible to the world. It's not covered as much.

@KooperHanghal99 11 месяцев назад

@@juxt_aposition9935 It's 2023. There's enough coverage to be at least mentioned in this video.

@arpitshivhare217 11 месяцев назад

As a Indian I don't know much about north east cuisine 😢

@Erokk1988 10 месяцев назад

This is the most entertaining one of these in a while

@rajdeepbose2600 11 месяцев назад

We need more such brilliant videos.

@advaithpillai 11 месяцев назад

bruh, mumbai ain't the capital of Indian street food, Delhi & Kolkata have equal, if not better claims to the same...

@adityadubey5390 11 месяцев назад

I took him seriously until he placed mumbais street food over delhis.

@almost_harmless 11 месяцев назад

Fantastic host for these questions. Would love to see more.

@beinerthchitivamachado874 11 месяцев назад

This Masterchef is CHILL AF.

@David_T 11 месяцев назад

Amy's also makes very good frozen Indian dinners.

@jayfloramusic 11 месяцев назад

I'm an Indian who had Trader Joes Indian packaged food during university and it never missed. Pretty legit

@evelynstedman4611 11 месяцев назад

I was amazed and excited to hear him mention his hometown. Thats where my mother's father was born in the 1870s.

@eronan03 11 месяцев назад

I put this right up there with the James Hoffman episode. This was fantastic. This is an instant subscribe, if he had his own channel.

@sansudar21 11 месяцев назад

This man is the perfect example of us Indians.. never knew him before this video but will be my favorite chef henceforth. He explains stuff very authentic and also makes fun , modern Indian relatable jokes

@googleuser-we8ei 11 месяцев назад

Evertime he says "you can add peacock " I wonder if he's joking or not 😂 because it's India's national bird, you can't kill it or keep it as a pet. It's a very serious crime I think.

@haecyt1365 6 месяцев назад

It is. You can't harm a peacock ..

@rhebb3228 11 месяцев назад

So nice to see someone who's not a snob about regional food

@rebeccawildman8787 11 месяцев назад

Omg he used the word soupçon!! This guy is the best lol. I learned a lot!

@tomifost 11 месяцев назад

Palak Paneer! Whats the best recipe?!

@zgeorgem 11 месяцев назад

North East? You missed North East. What a missed opportunity

@bftb 11 месяцев назад

Oh man, I’m just sitting here salivating. I love Indian food.

@telebubba5527 11 месяцев назад

I happened to have made 2 different kinds of Bhel Pury recently. It all came about accidentally. A couple of months back I bought what I thought were just some crispy mix, but when I opened the pack there were several packets of stuff in there. I didn't know quite what to do with it and put it aside to look up for it and of course forgot. Recently I went to a different store and made the same mistake, only a slightly different version. I then remembered that had a previous package and thought it time to look it up on RU-vid. Most of those video's are in an Indian language, but there were a couple in English and combining all the information I gathered felt confident enough to try to make them. They were a bit more complicated that the one shown by this chef, like adding more vegetables (cucumber, tomatoes and maybe some other stuff that I can't think of now). It was delicious and I highly recommend it.

@anirudh2704 10 месяцев назад

U can also get packed pani puri water and buy puris. It's a healthy snack.