Why Do Indians Use So Much Curry? WRONG question... Here's a BETTER one!

[@utubch]

My Indian husband had the same issue - after over a decade of living in Japan, he was quite tired of hearing "So you guys eat curry every day?" from non-Indians. Any attempt at explanation would be met with "OK, it's not called curry, but it's still curry flavour, right?" As you explain, there's no such thing as 'curry flavour' or 'curry powder' - it's a different blend depending on the dish. I learnt this even more after moving to India and started to run an Indian family kitchen here. But I don't think Japanese get it yet, so one of my recent videos actually attempts to explain why this concept is wrong using examples from Japanese flavouring and cuisine! :) Thank you for helping to further better understanding of this misnomer/misconception!

[@bjenks]

Oh sounds like an interesting video, I'll check it out. Thanks :)

[@prasadjadhav834]

Actually there is nothing like curry powder ... Atleast not in Maharashtra, India

[@hooeezit]

I saw your curry video a few weeks ago, and I think you did an excellent job explaining it. I think Ben's explanation is not even close to as organized as yours. But that's kind of the nature of explaining a concept that doesn't exist! Nothing you say can make sense to the person who 'believes' in the existence of the concept. Take 'God' for example :P

[@ksmkeys]

@@hooeezit HAHAHAHHA!!! EPIC! you sneaky you!! :D

[@sweeyanreddy1738]

@@prasadjadhav834 as a south indian i would say that there is no curry powder never heard of it

[@siddharthgaur5839]

India is the only civilization to explore vegetarianism as complete food for humans. This exploration lead to invention of so many vegetable, lentils,fruits based curries. Also, Ayurveda has played a great role. Being the richest nation for most of the human civilization, India had the abundance of resources , great minds, largest arable land in the world, (yes, more than China and US!) and all seasons. Influx of people from Arab world, trade with Romans, Greeks, Chinese and western influence from the British has also played a role in vast food collection.

[@bjenks]

Thanks Siddharth!

[@AS-jo8qh]

Ethiopia also has a rich repertoire of vegetarian/vegan food

[@andigaming9612]

@@bjenks Curry is like non veg food with sauce called gravy in Tamil Nadu but in other places there are veg curry without gravy that we eat with rice like fried potato

[@jeganjegann4713]

"curry" which basically added with main course dishes like rice,wheat breads,even for dosa and idly .A good sauce to enjoy your meal

[@prathappoojary3618]

Curry is a disgrace.. gravy is good word

[@chinnuselva]

British and Americans want everything to be simple and don't want to deal with complexity and hence the shortcut to name them Curry

[@bjenks]

👍👍

[@minajaiswal4321]

Perfect brother...i love my country and it's diversity

[@Rahul_J_Rajbhar]

Same here in India people thinks that American and British eat only garlic bread, pizza & Burger .😂😂😂

[@Mean_men]

And what else do they use?

[@kameshwaranramachandran9322]

thats all they eat

[@asule1000]

I think not all people in USA and UK eat cnly garlic bread,pizza&burgers but some people do eat everyday

[@abhixu5891]

@@asule1000 what if we say they clean their butt with tissue paper ...it's soo nasty living for a whole day with that f*cking uncleaned buttt

[@abhixu5891]

@Learning Idea the truth is people in India dont like Curry.... We eat curry once in 3 months....

[@ChandradyutPalsocial]

This is what the west has ever done: Over simplify anything they find difficult, be it food or religion. E.g do u know Hindu means dweller of the land of river Indus(It basically comes from the word "Sindh" which again comes from "Indus" where the ancient Greeks used to pronounce Indus as Sindus.)? We didn't even call ourselves that before the foreigners introduced it. we used to call it "Sanatan Dharma" which simply translates to eternal way of life.

[@bjenks]

I didn't know that about Hinduism! Helpful, thanks. Is that just the west or is it the nature of the mind to simplify things that are complex to understand and may not be vital for us to do so?

[@ChandradyutPalsocial]

@@bjenks well, we're still continuing that complexity, but I guess you're right. We are used to this from birth, had I been an outsider I would've tried to oversimplify it too, but then again, this oversimplification is the reason behind all these confusions like curry and all.

[@indrajitgupta3280]

Perhaps the sequence could be differently stated. Originally it was the difference in pronunciation between the cousins in Iran and the cousins in 'India', where to the west, it was Haraothi, to the east, it was Saraswati. Naturally, the same big river was the Hindu in the west, and Sindhu in the east. The Greeks had issues with aspirates; to them, a detailed analytical account of the past is 'istoria; it was not a conscious act on their part (travellers, merchants, mercenary soldiers) to garble Hindu into 'indu, whereby, using a grammatical form, Indus. The entire region around the Indus, and later, well inland, all the way up to Pataliputra (without stopping there; this is the point up to which we have definite evidence), became, to the Europeans, India; to west Asians, it remained Hind. This name irritates born-again patriots, and it is less tiresome to go along with them and refer to 'Bharat'.

[@sangfroid7]

And Hinduism should be treated as an umbrella term for hundreds of sub sects with different rituals and guidelines. In one large Hindu family each member or nuclear family has the flexibility to belong to any sect they choose.

[@nirvanabliss73]

There is no sauce called 'curry' in Marathi cooking. We use curry leaves (कढीपत्ता), yes There is nothing called Indian cooking just like there is nothing called European cooking

[@bjenks]

Thanks Nirvana!

[@Aniruddha197]

Actually curry leaves are the leaf of sweet lime tree . Since it is used extensively in each gravy or curry,it is labelled as curry leaves.😎😎

[@sujith3914]

@@Aniruddha197 I am not sure if you are joking.😂

[@user-rg3cc1jm5w]

Sorry to correct you, but 'Kari' in Tamil means Meat/flesh. The Sauce or "curry" in Tamil is called 'Kolambu' hence, in Tamil land, they don't call it Kari, instead it's called Kolambu, ex 'Kari Kolumbu' or Meat Stew/Sauce/mix.

[@thetechreview369]

Yes, But we call curry as "RASSA"! Mutton rassa, Chicken Rassa, Tambda-pandhra(Red-white non-veg broath) Rassa, as some of the popular curries you can find in Maharashtra!

[@vishnugoniyal6072]

Kari is basically: 1. Kari leaves that you have shown in your Video, used in many Indian dishes (mainly South Indian) as a general specie. 2. A general term used for the liquid part of the cooked vegetables or non-veg dishes, although Indians don't called it carry but gravy. 3. A kind of vegiterian dish mostly popular in North India Kari( or Kadhi) in which main ingredient is yogurt serve mainly with chawal (steam rice) also known as Kadhi-pakoda or Kadhi-Chawal ( you can google it).

[@sushmamondal9765]

You almost convered most of the things just one thing I m adding which I got to know recently that south indians call meat as kadhi

[@anujay81]

In fact Kadhi patta or curry leave got its name after a Dish called Kadhi, a salty sour sauce made with cracking mustard and fenugreek seeds with small amount of turmeric and dried chilli then thin yogurt or butter milk is poured over the cracking seeds stirred well and then chickpea dal (Splits without outer skin) powder known as Besan is added slowing while stirring. Salt is added as per taste. Yes curry leaved are also cracked with seeds initially for flavor. The whole liquid is boiled till the Besan get cooked and it becomes slightly thicker. So its pale colour sauce, which is eaten with rice. Sometimes finely chopped green chilli are also added, if one want it to be little hot in flavor. Sometimes lettle bit sugar is also added. Sometimes deep fried Besan pakodas are also added as dumplings. So this Kadhi became curry in the west and subsequently all Spici Indian side dishes so to be veg or non-veg with gravy are called curries.

[@namanagarwal8341]

See in india we know pasta as white pasta and red pasta....we have no clue about what kind of pasta it is...is it spegetti or is it macaroni or some other type of pasta or what kind of sause it is....we have no idea....we oversimplified pasta to understand, cook and eat it....similarlythe west oversimplified the different kinds of vegges and dals and sabzis as curries...and they say veg curry or chicken curry....now in india we know there are different veg sabzis and chicken dishes but the west simplified and called it all curries

[@amaitra]

You have better clue than most Indians do!

[@lunachakraborty6211]

Here in Bengal, we call a "curry" or "tarkari", a preparation of vegetables, in various different ways. There is nothing called a curry powder here, contrary to the western idea.

[@bjenks]

I'm googling that and it looks good, Luna!

[@VijaygKamat]

Our lady of the house makes curry powder by approximation and different combination for different type of food, everyday. She has all those recipes in her mind and her hand moves deftly in the spice box to make tasty food.

[@rajeebbarma]

Yah, in Odisha as well. Tarkari is the word. I think, as Britishers first came to the east of India, they took the concepts mostly from there

[@aniruddhrao3489]

wow even in kanada we use the word tarkari which basically means vegetables

[@amankumar206]

In bihar tarkari is the word we used too we means vegetable.

[@shubhankarroy3170]

U have studied India so nicely.

[@salempasangasp]

In Tamil kari can mean meat or vegetables, curry in the curry leaves Comes from its Tamil word karuvepilai meaning karu-black vepillai -neem it means black Neem

[@bjenks]

Thanks for that info!

[@adithyahk]

In Kannada it's pronunced karibevu ~ curry-bae-vu

[@dhivyadhivya-cv2cb]

Salem huh?

[@nayaksuresh]

The word "Curry" indicates a specific format of the dish prepared. The word curry itself is not a dish. When you attach word curry to some items then it indicates broadly what is being done with that specific item . Say for example - Paneer Curry, Paneer Koorma, Paneer Kofta, so on. So the curry has some broad features like use of liquid / semi liquid masala with varied ways of cooking from place to place

[@bjenks]

Thanks for the info Suresh!

[@anupbose5824]

The word "Curry" commonly uses to mean it's a juicy ( may be a gravy ) preparation.For expl. "Potato Curry" - means it's a juicy preparation of potato - not a dry preparation. Rice or Roti needs some juicy preparation to eat.

[@kalaivanikumar7493]

Pongal, upma, ragi semmiya ,kitchidi, vada sambhar, mini meals , full meals are a few suggestions.

[@SamiranPatgiri4Wild]

We don't use the term Curry in Northeast India. But it's a general term used in most Hotels and Restaurants to depict a dish with more sauce !!! 😀

[@bjenks]

Thanks Samiran, I'd like to get to NE India at some time

[@SamiranPatgiri4Wild]

@@bjenks Sure. You are most welcome. In case you want to contact me I am available in Facebook and Instagram. In case you need my email - [e-mail]

[@hewhomustnotbenamed6564]

@@bjenks and NE india has a completely different cuisine

[@mimis.5139]

So true our food is more like stew based than curry

[@amankumar206]

We dont use word curry in mainland either

[@maxpayne9996]

Actually there is a dish in India which is known as “kadi” not curry. Again not in your vocabulary, as the vowels have to be stressed. It is made of yoghurt and spices

[@bjenks]

Sounds good, I want to try

[@sweetmithu1]

Yes u are right ,punjabi kadi made by tempering spices then adding to it lassi or buttermilk even yogurt mixed with water and chickpea flour and cooking it while continuously stirring it and in the end adding chickpea batter fritters known as pakode to it .

[@abhinoorsingh4780]

@@sweetmithu1 yes so true

[@MayankKhatti]

@@bjenks u can search it on KZbin "how to make Kadi"

[@anandpandey5105]

Kadi chawal... Just delicious.

[@mohit0maheshwari]

In India generally we have two types of dishes one with gravy and other without gravy...but to simplified it all gravy dishes ... they call it curry

[@bjenks]

Thanks for sharing

[@sushmamondal9765]

And fried dishes..

[@sandeeptiwari196]

Being an Indian from North, I first time had curry in my life when I travelled to UK. I was excited to find out what curry is.

[@sinu2716]

Man...😂

[@notnotiron]

North Indians always eat paneer curry and vegetables oil slop. Just because you call it by other names doesn't mean the actual food is different

[@anamika3678]

Thank you. This is what I want to shout when someone says India means curry . My foreigner friends just feel everything is curry and same. Now I ll show this video.

[@DeepakYadav23YADAV]

Try to visit north India... 🙏 enjoy in india Brother 🤟

[@hirenkg]

Curry has many meanings. it can be lentil soup daal you get at panera, buttermilk with channa atta as in ?, cooked vegetable with masala and vegetable stock as in Campbell soup, authentic curry as in soup kitchen.

[@nishantkumar6960]

Curry is a plant and its leaves are used to add special aroma and taste, most commonly used in the south part of India while in the north part of India we genuinely have a curry (Kadhi) dish made of Besan (Peanuts powder) + Curd. It's easy to cook but we don't cook it every day, maybe in a month or so. It's a replacement for dal. It is preferably eaten with Rice.

[@sumitakarmakarroy]

I m addicted to ur channel... (Not just bcoz u praise indian things but bcoz i like ur story telling Technic so much of patience, detail information blah blah blah last but not the least handsome... 😁)

[@sariksasi]

Curry or gravy is mainly used to add water content to the food you eat with flavour, which helps in digestion and easy absorption of nutrients.

[@Satyashodhak99]

When u showed these dishes I was like 🤤🤤🤤😋😋

[@bjenks]

😋

[@sakshirishi4684]

so we basically used spices and flavours to cook lentils pulses or meat we use cumin garlic onion n tomato we fry it in oil and the add veggie or lentil or meat and we can make it with curry /or dry with curry its easy n preferred to eat with rice

[@prezodent2371]

Curry is a word for gravy in India, it’s not a condiment and the two dishes with the word curry in them I know is mutton curry and chicken curry

[@mahajanratnakar1809]

Curry in word is "liquefied dish" (means not theak)or you can call it as' grevi'which is easy to eat with rice or mashing the chapati in it.

[@tintunbirha]

There is a dish called " currdhy" in north India ( Bihar, UP, etc) which consists of yoghurt and fried balls cooked with curry leaves etc. It's generally eaten with rice.

[@kuldeep_singh_naruka]

there's a dish named curry in Rajasthan which is cooked with yogurt and chna daal flour. local name is "khddi"

[@PriyaPatel-lx6mj]

I bet you will make best indian chef ...such accurate description and research I am indian and i learn something new about indian from your videos

[@bjenks]

Hi Priya, my cooking is terrible actually haha. But okay for me 😏

[@mohanmohan2809]

In Tamil Nadu Curry also means non-vegetarian food. Also 'kai-kari' means vegetables. In general Curry means spicy masala. You correctly interrupted meaning of the Curry leaves!!!

[@grajiv1979]

In Tamizh Naadu Kai-Kari was more of a slang.. Proper Tamizh it's Kaai-Kani (Vegetables and Fruits).. Over a period it got messed up to what we say now,... That's why you say Kaai-Kari Kadai as the ones selling vegetables and fruits

[@sancharidas7532]

You are not swept by the Indian culture (be like this) yet so so kind and happy to live here. I am amazed to see these videos of yours about Indian things.

[@bjenks]

Thanks Sanchari

[@sancharidas7532]

@@bjenks You're welcome. On the contrary in the northern part of India specially UP, Bihar , West Bengal you might not get vibe not this good in terms of people , climate , political situation, economy etc.

[@drsrikanthsatnoor2089]

Curry and masala which we used from decades had made us strong our immune is great being most populated country we still at good place in infection control so u being Indian now enjoy days eat lot of food spices and variety as well joy the days

[@bjenks]

I will do my best to live up to the Indian legacy of eating lots of spices, Drarikanth 🌶🥵

[@RahulSharma_JaiMataDi]

Each state in India has its own staple foods based on what locally available and what suits based on climatic conditions. Oil used for making changes based on temperature locally.... cold up north will use Mustard Oil for cooking, Middle India will use Peanut oil and South will use Coconut oil.... Food is scientifically based

[@BishalNath]

Here is Assam when we add water with the dish(fish,meat, veggie) we called it curry.We often asked people do you want it with curry or dry.

[@funcoverup9]

Cause curry is kadhi(कढ़ी made from curd and gram flour) and we can't eat kadhi daily. And tari(तरी) is curry or say what you mentioned it as sauce. But we refer sauce as chutney (चटनी ) and gravy for your curry sauce. Also many languages so different version.

[@TheEddieToro]

Gracias Parce! Thanks bro'! I never really knew till this video what curry really was. I had been thinkimg about it over the last few weeks. Awesome myth buster.

[@bjenks]

Hey Edwin! I learned something in making the video too

[@jayaprakashalbert7441]

Every region of India has its own set of dishes the ingredients are mostly grown locally. Every dish has its own unique flavour this complexity has been simplified as "curry" by foreign visitors to India.

[@motorcyclevdiaries]

Finally a better approach and a better or should I say appropriate background music, not some random noise from Indian instruments.

[@nehalsoni7129]

It's amazing how you know so much and try to gather actual information by going to restaurants and I hope you have some locals too to help with your quest. When information travels across world, they somehow get changed for simplicity purpose I think. You putting this effort to know true information is inspiring. Others have already mentioned I guess. Though to add, curry is vegetables cooked with spices sometimes with gravy or without also. We also have lentil soup (daal) and rice along with vegetable curry and roti. Some beans (chana, rajma, etc) with gravy can also be labelled as curry. This makes regular full dish in my home or most homes in Gujarat. Sometimes with salad, chutney, papad and even some side dish like Dhokla, khaman, etc and dessert.

[@trajan3413]

It's just as simple as this.....curry in general means that particular dish will have liquid greavy....masala dish usually means it will be a thick greavy dish

[@A0A4ful]

In a few South Indian languages, 'Kari' also means 'charred', 'burnt', crisp, coal-like finish. In Hindi, 'Kadi pattaa' is the curry leaf that you refer too... Don't worry, eat curry...

[@Xyrofficial]

Simply curry means gravy

[@amitkh007]

Curry is just the gravy of any dish, since most dishes have semi-liquid form, to an outsider it is easier to introduce as so and so curry

[@MadaraUchiha-dw9jl]

If u are in south try having a dosa , it wud taste good with coconut chutney. Try eating the following to though these arent wht u wud get on local stalls : vada pav , chole tikki ..... many more In sweets rasmalai sure worth a try

[@gaurichonkar4246]

Its basically 'gravy dishes', anything which has gravy so that food does not feel too dry to eat with rice / roti (as they both are dry), hence curry/gravy is important spl with boiled white rice.

[@pulkitjain8135]

Don't know about the south but in north curry is a whole another separate dish(which also uses curry leaves as one of the ingredient).

[@pankajj939]

Indian food generally eaten with roti, chapati or naan so dipping small piece of roti in gravy of any dish is common way to eat. And also adding little bit of water after frying all spices is part of Indian cooking.

[@swetashetty941]

Indian food ...is more rice (of different varieties) than wheat based ..with different gravies...

[@amanbisht7291]

I appreciate your work bro you are always in favour of India even you're not of here and now you have a lot of Information about it.

[@SidCool19]

Indians have rice and roti/paratha/porotta/chilla/dosai (kinds of breads) as part of their daily 3x meal. Rice and breads are to be consumed with veggies, and lentils that are made with blend of spices which have thick-gravy like texture. Brits and Americans often generalized the term "Curry" for Indian meal. That don't know Indian cuisines are very diverse just like the culture.

[@shirkedance]

Thank you for the Explanation. Very nicely explained for a person who didn't try many dishes. I was asked a similar Questions from my friends in UK region who came in a Mumbai Architecture visit for 14 days. They asked me, do you eat Chilies and Curry all the time. I was like speechless for a while and i just said. Asking curry to an Indian, is like asking do you eat Rice & Noodles everyday in Japan or asking do you like cheese on everything to a French or Italian. Many Indians don't know there are Endless varieties to Noodles and Cheese, and People out of India don't know the different VARIETIES of Curries or Flavor blends we actually use for specific purposes, events or weathers. (I am going to forward this to my Friends)

[@satyamsharma3296]

Curry means gravy or sauce which is mixed with vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes, paneer, etc

[@divyadass6159]

Kari comes for kaikari means vegetable. Basically in deeper tamil Nadu homes Kari means a side dish . We usually takes vegetables daily. if we do potato Kari it look like dry or quarter dry level. we used Kari as side dish for rice or chapati . sometime in down south Kari also mean non veg .they called chicken Kari, mutton Kari,fish Kari but here it won't be dry it will looks like stew. But in hotel curry means a sauce it looks like semi gravy .finally the hotel food are slightly different from home food. In Tamil there is district wise cooking everything is unique and different. sambar, dosa, vada are very basic level items in Tamil Nadu we have more n more dish but u won't get that in hotels

[@AnishKumarChandran]

Different curries add different taste to main course food like Rice. Rice is actually nuetral in taste. So combine it with different flavours and taste within one meal, it's like you are eating a new food every time you eat!

[@Rohitsingh-zb8gz]

thali is not a dish it is the utensil in which the food is served it is common because its a common utensil found in almost every household you can call a type of plate used to serve dishes.

[@shalukushwaha1878]

We don't call it curry..We call it sabzi..means vegetable..It can be with or without gravy..BTW All paneer dishes are my favourite one..Like Matar paneer,Shahi paneer.. I preferred mostly homemade food..I like Potato and tomato sabzi with and without gravy,Peas and Potato with gravy and Spinach and potato in dry vegetables..These are my favourites ❤❤ We use different kind of blend of spices in different dishes..To enhance their unique flavours.. Yes we have lots of spices like you show in ur video at 1:02..

[@yashsapra6040]

In North and Western India there is a dish curry commonly eaten with rice and Curry is made of chickpeas flour and yogurt just search Curry chawal

[@gkmr1544]

Curry is basically a base for vegetable or chicken or fish or anything such as rajma(kidney beans) or chickepea or even gram flour fritters in curry as curry pakoda. So curry is made out of onion tomatoes curd ginger garlic paste and a basic spice mix. Curry can be Coriander cumin onion based (for vegetables and chicken) Curd based (for curry pakoda) Tomato cashew butter based (for butter chicken) Mustard tomato based (for fishes) Cashew and pumpkin seed based(for chicken and vegetables) Spinach and cream based (for chicken and paneer) Its a art to cook spices and blend in everything in a dish so balance and flavour comes.

[@shrishti6406]

In India we don't have curry but we have one dish that is called Kadi ,and that is because it's made in an utensil called kadai and Kadhi isn't even spicy but pungent, sour ... It's a curd based dish😅

[@sagaspace]

It's taste so good also herbs/spices have medical benefits. So it becomes taste + health. Also majority people are vegetarian so veggies without curry can't even imagine.

[@adruvitpandit5816]

WOW, i hear you man it is complicated to order in India, even we as Indians sometime are confused what to order when we travel to other cities and states.

[@ART_INDIA]

It's Kari.... not curry.......? Kari to digest the food. When You eat rice .....all other dishes or Food. Gate Digest properly........in Kari you have all most all good ingredients in it. Food gates properly digest...👍 In india never sniff the food 🙏 Eat - with hand's....👍 Very Nice & Interesting Topic....👍

[@sakshirishi4684]

Indian is huge every tribe culture and region religion adds to the beauty n tradition n food of the country

[@intex35]

curry means in liquid form, you know we add water in our dishes, add water to chicken it becomes chicken curry, same with eggs, fish, vege. next is gravy semi liquid, thick, next is fry, no water used in the process of cooking, its dry in nature.

[@dushyantsinghrahine2521]

Excellent video that genuinely appreciates the complexity of the issue at hand and tries to explore and understand and know more about it instead of serving half-baked factoids as 'truths'. And reading the comments here, I am still baffled that even such an honest exploration couldn't stop Ben from falling into the pitfall of getting the meaning of Tamil word 'Kari' right. So, that just goes on to show how much muck and misinformation is spread all over the internet (which I assume was his primary source of research) in the name of 'Indian Curry'... That despite the hard work he would have put in, he still got trapped in it. Thanks again for great video.🙏🙏

[@bjenks]

Thanks Dushyant for sharing that!

[@hemneeraj1370]

Actually curry is a dish in northern part of India made by gram flour, some spices and curd. It is full of spicy with sour and tangy flavour and we love to eat curry-chawal or curry-roti. But we eat it occasionally not everyday.

[@bjenks]

👍👍

[@vaibhavbhame]

Nice topic....I am in Malaysia now and here too all Malaysians called indian spicy food as Carry. I came from northern part of India (Mumbai) and rarely we use this word. ( There is one dish common in all restaurants called "anda carry" anda means 🥚. ) If you use sauce word here, ppl will think you are asking for Tomato ketchup :) JFYI: Kary/carry means food that contains spicy water/grevy. So if this spicy water contains egg , call it Egg kary. If it contains chicken, call it chicken kary

[@arun3000ad]

The context in which I have used curry is to imply a side dish that has liquid/sauce in it. eg Chicken curry. But there could be different Chicken curry one w a coconut base or another with cashew

[@suchitrabanerjee5162]

As I am Indian I am alwys used to these so many masals nd all.. Nd it was normal to me bt as I saw foreigners wondering about it I realize it's the essence of India only

[@rbalasubramanian3236]

Curry in Tamil means a vegetable preparation that is dry; that is without gravy. So the name of the vegetable is prefixed to indicate for example "vendakkai curry" means curry of okra or ladiesfinger (vendakkai is okra or ladiesfinger.). Sometimes curry is also called Poriyal. If the preparation is with gravy, its called "kootu". Again kootu will be preceded by the name of vegetable.Some vegetables can be made as either curry or kootu. If gravy contains buttermilk / curd and single vegetable, then its "morkootu"; many vegetables then its "aviyal". "Pachchidi" is when raw vegetable such as cucumber is grated, and mixed in curd and garnished. Sometimes a sweet Pachchidi is done where cut/sliced vegetable such as raw mango is in a gravy with jaggery. This is a broad classification/description. Each can be as simple or as elaborate as the cook desires with nuanced flavors/tastes and other ingradients.

[@sandeepthomas8663]

I learned from my grandma as a kid that not all sauces are curry. Only sauces that have curry leaves as ingredients are curry. In the Malayalam language (neighbor state of Tamil Nadu) there are separate words for curry that's mixed with rice as well as for curry that is treated as a sperate dish.

[@raptorgaming7242]

The word curry according to my knowledge is derived from the word "karhai" which means cooking pot. So anything u make food on a pot means curry which doesnot referred to the dish actual given name. So curry means food make or served in a pot Indian says locally as curry and the whole dishes name is the different thing. I guess i mentioned correctly.

[@preethishetty6179]

Something with gravy ( with veg or non veg ) is basically is referred as curry in English . But local languages has many names for gravy’s depending on the ingredients, texture , taste , thickness of the gravy etc . More Liquid type is mostly called Saaru , little think cab be gojju , gassi etc , if it is sweet , hot and tangy combination then we call menaskai. If dry in nature then palya ( poriyal / uppukari , sukka ) , if it has curd in it then maggigehuli , if totally liquid then rasam . Many other like Koddel , Huli , ... this is South Indian version basically Karnataka . Similarly it takes different names in different regions .

[@sureshchandradas88]

The curry leaves that you talk about is very much used in indian kitchen. According to research done by both Indian and US scientists this leaf has some medicinal properties that controls hair fall , keeps it black and controls blood sugar besides making dishes tasty😋

[@kumaragurusubramanian581]

I don't know about other states but in Tamil Nadu curry means meat(chicken, mutton, beef, pork etc) except fish., I don't know fish comes under meat or not...

[@sakshirishi4684]

we also make traditional curry with yoghurt

[@sangeethal8546]

Accidentally watch & become addict to your videos. Subscribed bro🤩🤩

[@PrasoonKarn]

This is an educational video for "English Curry People". Great job..!!

[@sd-wm1sq]

The only dish I call or ever heard being called 'Curry' is the yellow colored soupy dish made of lassi. It is served during Annakut and one of my fav dish. Curry Chawal is a killer combo.

[@sakshirishi4684]

we cook as per the occasion and region every home has a traditional local dish. we love gravy with rice and eat rice and kidney beans curry with hands its heaven

[@shrikantjalihal1544]

We prepare one masala for day to day's use and also, we prepare curry powder seperately, which makes curry tastier. And this masala requires many incredients to make. And in festivals we prepare another type of curry and we make masala of that curry instantly, there and then and it tastes different.

[@bjenks]

So complicated and I am glad you do because it is delicious

[@No1KoreanDrama]

curry means gravy.... for eg. ginger chicken gravy, you can say ginger chicken curry

[@adithyaganapathyd9427]

In South India even vegetable are called kaikari.

[@priyakshinath635]

There are 100s of dishes which don't use sauce.. Eat those more Indian dishes.. N Indian dishes r mainly of spices... Every state city towns varies in using spices in cooking.. Eat n see urslf.. Hope u njoy

[@ashwinbhatsuri1388]

Your video trying to understand the Indian culture and cuisine is commendable. Yes as many others have pointed out there is no dish per se "Curry" in our cuisine. As India is so diverse, you see the food changes completely every few miles you travel. In some of the places where especially foreigners visit in tourist places, people seem to add the word curry in their menu to give a sense for the tourists that they are eating something they have heard before :). Normally dishes which have gravy based consistency is referred to as vegetable/meat + curry if it simplifies. Once again thanks for trying to understand different cultures, cuisines etc of our beautiful India!. Really enjoy the genuine feedback or understanding from a different perspective rather than having a prejudiced view or over glorifying things just to get subscribers or views.

[@bjenks]

Thanks Ashwin 🙏🙏

[@ashwinbhatsuri1388]

@@bjenks Keep up the good work! Wish you all the best for your future endeavours in India :)

[@BlankVsJ]

There is wide differences in food you get in indian restaurants and indian food many you get in restaurants are all dishes you don't eat regularly, its type food you eat once in a while.

[@rajendermakhijani9271]

Most of the Indian dishes have specific names based on the key ingredients (vegetables, lentils, etc) and the style of cooking. NOT Curry, unless we mean a simple, non-vegetarian dish with gravy. On the other hand, nearly every region has ONE dish called “Kadi” which has a sauce made from chickpea flour. Preparation style varies in each region. That is the only dish we call Kadi, but we may distinguish between them by adding the name of the region it comes from (Punjabi Kadi/ Sindhi Kadi/ Gujarati Kadi and so on).

[@chiragsehgal8781]

You can try Kidney Beans Curry which is called "Rajma" in India. It's amazing. Or you can try eating Lentils more popularly called as "Dal Makhani" to name few North Indian Curries.

[@nannakk]

There are many words with the same sound as Kari. But Kari literally means black. So how it came to be associated with the food you might think. Black Pepper is call karu-milagu or kuru-milagu. The word Kari used for Vegatable (or vegetable dish) comes from "kari-kai" which means mixing black pepper with vegetables (olden days). The curry leaf is again called "karu-veppilai"and hence kari got stuck to it oo. Mutton or any other meat is also called Kari colloquially ..so when you went to the shop that sold them, they thought you are asking for food with meat :)...rememeber coal is also called kari (the r sound is difficult to distinguish for nonnative speakers):)

[@bjenks]

Thanks Kannan for sharing the good info! What part of India are you from?

[@nannakk]

@@bjenks I live in Bangalore but I am a native Tamil speaker from Tamil Nadu.

[@bjenks]

@@nannakk 👍👍

[@HimanshuGupta-qk1nq]

And one more in india there is no mixed grinded species called curry sepecies. We have two varieties of sepices are distributed 1. Garam(hot) masala (sepices) 2. Thanda(cold) masala. These are distributed on their nature hot sepices are in garam masala and cold that are hot taste means not too much hot not too much sweet. 3. Other species:- these are depend on mood, ocassions etc.these are extra if want then you can if you know not then you not.

[@r.b.8018]

Curry comes from the world Tarkari---which means vegetable both cooked and uncooked. eg panch (five) meshali(mix) tarkari(veggie) or Aloo(potato)-'r ('s) tarkari(vegetable) In Bengal there are three types of curry or sauce for Fish. "Machher jhol" --- Mache is fish. "Jhol" is less spicy ( cumin powder and ginger paste) whereas "Jhal" is spicy n hot. Machher Jhal. Jhal means hot, not the pepper hot but chilly hot. Then there is Machher--in Kalia we add garlic, onion and species. And then there is Machher Ombol or tak ,টক, we add tamarind and sugar. We also have dishes made of poppy and mustard. jhol can also mean the watery gravy and then there is makha the opposite of jhol. eg. Murgir (chicken) makha jhol - the gravy will be thick.

[@shailu20001]

Normally we have sambar which is a lentil based soup. Kolambu is a coconut and tamarind based gravy, also there is kuruma which shouldn't be confused with khorma because kuruma is a light coconut n tomato based gravy whereas khorma is made with cashew n tomatoes.

[@bjenks]

Thanks for sharing, Kolambu sounds great. Which part of India are you from?

[@shailu20001]

@@bjenks , I am from Tamil nadu

[@pranavmanglik9094]

Vegetarian food varies from household to household , because each mother in household is a expert cook .

[@jaanu2222]

you should go to middle or northern part like delhi side or mp ( you can get every type of food here from south north , gujarati , maharashtrian food ) , all i am saying is in both vegan and non vegan food you'll get really tasty varieties here , its worth to try.

[@Aanubhavnirmal]

@benjaminjerks . In north India .. there is only single dish which is known as curry which is made of gram flour . Actually it is classic a nd one of the authentic dish .. you can eat curry with rice of a bread or a roti .. exact translation is kadii not curry.. I don't know why people call curry .. sometime they just say curry to any soupy dish ..

[@gandhiva1953]

Curry or spices induces sweating. So eating spices causes you to sweat thereby cooling you down. Spicy food is prevalent in countries which have a hot climate.