Hi, Thursday, September 11, 2003, 10:54:03 PM, you wrote:
> Cotty wrote: >> >> At short notice the Nutty Norwegian is on a business trip to London and >> so we dragged him over here to Oxford for the evening. Just finished a >> humungous meal of chicken tikka masala, alu ghobi and pilau rice, washed >> down with Cobra beers :-) Parp. > Pardon my ignorance but...isn't there an "r" in "masala?" If not, what > the heck IS masala? Marsala is a Sicilian wine. Masala is an Indian sauce. Tikka masala is a bizarre mix of 2 Indian recipes very popular in Britain. Apparently it was invented here by Indian chefs who were tired of their ignorant English customers asking for something that doesn't exist in Indian cooking, and now it has found its way to the sub-continent. -- Cheers, Bob mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
