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- From: sbhattac@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Shankar Bhattacharyya)
- Newsgroups: rec.food.veg
- Subject: Re: Indian (sort of) recipe: Pongali
- Message-ID: <32903@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:18:57 GMT
- References: <CMM.0.90.2.722083922.helgeha@maud.ifi.uio.no> <1992Nov18.224034.3835@u.washington.edu> <1992Nov19.001612.10540@u.washington.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1992Nov19.001612.10540@u.washington.edu> twain@milton.u.washington.edu (Barbara Hlavin) writes:
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- >Arun Meda Sannuti mentions curry leaves, and Helge Hauglin asks if
- >Arun means bay leaves. Arun says
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- >We have a box of curry leaves in our cupboard. (Neither of us knows
- >where they came from, or what to do with them, but we keep moving the
- >box around with us.) As I recall, the label reads simply "Curry Leaves."
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- For what it's worth, the name is pronounced with a bit of a hard r, close
- to a "d". I would transcibe the name as "kadi leaves". They are slightly
- bitter, and very pleasantly flavoured. Unfortunately, the dried leaves lose
- much of the flavour, but they are still useful.
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- Kadi leaves are widely used in western and southern India. I'll see about
- posting a recipe for a simple curry using them, in which they dominate the
- flavour. Perhaps over the weekend.
-
- - Shankar
-