Hello, I’m traveling in orissa right now and I’m looking for premixed curries i can buy to throw in a pot with water and make dinner with.

I’ve met plenty of locals and asked a few about instant or pre-mixed curries, but they all say that there’s no such thing as premixed curries in india.

The strikes me as odd since instant curry is very common in every country with any sort of curry tradition I’ve been to and it seems like some company would have taken advantage of the market.

am I asking the wrong question?

I’m either not recognizing or haven’t found any curry mixes yet.

are they not called curry?

should I be looking for something else?

thanks

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
    2·
    4 hours ago

    they also have it with the"curries are more of a special occasion thing in India"

    got it, thanks, i had no idea! i like to travel without a plan and just talk to the people here, but I didn’t know the language with which to ask about curries, which apparently is my obsession today.

    that meal-plan sounds about the same here in Orissa.

    love vada and idli, they give a brown bowl of curry with the idli here. or dal? because that soup I think is curry tastes fantastic but I only see it in the morning with the vada/idli.

    they also have it with the dahivada in these pots:

    is chapati another word for roti?

    or are they different flatbreads?

    thanks

    • odium@programming.dev
      2·
      4 hours ago

      That brown soup is probably one of those regional specialties I mentioned. I’ve never had it, but now I want to try making it. I don’t think I’ll be able to find it around where I am. Regional specialties are super hard to find in Indian restaurants in other countries.

      • Varyk@sh.itjust.worksOP
        2·
        4 hours ago

        I believe it. Even one seller to the next, that brown morning curry soup tastes very different, like their spice mixtures are completely personalized.

        • odium@programming.dev
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Yeah, most things like that in India aren’t made from mixes, but rather each cook individually adding each spice.