vindaloo

1. A blend of red chilis, tamarind, and other spices, such as ginger, cumin, and mustard seeds.
2. Any of various dishes of southern and central India made with this spice blend.

[Probably Konkani (Indic language of western India) vindalu, from Portuguese vin d'alho : vinho, vin, wine (from Latin vīnum) + de, of (from Latin dē; see de-) + alho, garlic (from Latin ālium).]

Indian (especially south India and Sri Lanka); curry, marinated and cooked in vinegar; highly spiced with chilli pepper and hence highly pungent.

[VIHN-dah-loo] Specialties of central and southwestern coastal India, vindaloos are the most mouth-searing of the curry dishes. The complicated roasted spice blend on which they're based can contain any of various ingredients including mustard seeds, cumin seeds, ginger, peppercorns, fenugreek seeds, cloves and coriander seeds. Red chiles are a must and tamarind concentrate is favored. Vindaloo sauce is typically combined with meat and served with rice. Premade vindaloo pastes and dried spice blends are available in Indian markets.

You want hot? Vindaloo is for you. Speakers of English have known about this hot curry dish at least since 1888, when W. H. Dawe explained it in The Wife's Help to Indian Cookery, published in London: "Vindaloo or Bindaloo--A Portuguese Karhi.... The best Vindaloo is prepared in mustard-oil.... Beef and pork, or duck can be made into this excellent curry."

The basic component of a vindaloo is the vindaloo paste, often made separately ahead of time. This paste is a mixture of hot spices and vinegar, cooked in oil over low heat for a few minutes. One recipe calls for cayenne, cumin, turmeric, ground coriander, black pepper, hot mustard powder, ground ginger, and cinnamon. You can make a vindaloo by adding this paste to any meat or vegetable dish, such as mutton, lamb, chicken, prawns, or peas pulao. Or how about Goanese Fiery Duck Curry in Vindaloo Sauce?

In contemporary English, vindaloo can mean more than food. A hot young Japanese politician, Ms. Makiko Tanaka, was described by an Australian newspaper as "all vindaloo." And for the World Cup soccer tournament of 1998, a British group calling itself "Fat Les" supported their team with a hit song: "Vin-da-loo! Vin-da-loo! And we all like vin-da-loo! We're gonna score one more than you!" Alex James, one of the singers, declared that it was "a post-modern tribute to multiculturalism."

As Dawe stated in 1888, vindaloo is actually Portuguese in origin, though it comes from the Indian subcontinent. The name too is ultimately Portuguese, from the phrase vinho de alho or "wine of garlic." Portuguese sailors brought their garlic-flavored vinegar stew to Goa, which from 1510 to 1961 was a Portuguese colony on the southwestern coast of India. The Goans spiced up the recipe and the name, making it vindaloo in their Konkani language, a member of the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. The English tongue has only vindaloo from Konkani.

For other uses, see Vindaloo (disambiguation).

Pork vindalho, served in Lisbon, Portugal, in a Goan restaurant

Pork vindalho, served in Algés, Portugal.

Vindaloo is an Indian dish. The term Vindaloo derives from the Portuguese dish "Carne de Vinha d' Alhos", a dish of meat, usually lamb, with wine and garlic. Alternate terms are Vindalho or Vindallo. "Carne de Vinha d' Alhos" was first brought to Goa by the Portuguese^[1] and became a Goan meal often served during special occasions. The traditional Portuguese dish was made with pork preserved in red wine or red wine vinegar, chili pepper, and stewed with garlic. The dish evolved into the Vindaloo curry dish when it received the Goan treatment of adding plentiful amounts of spice.^[2] Restaurants often serve this dish with chicken or lamb sometimes mixed with potatoes.^[1] Traditional vindaloos do not include potatoes, the discrepancy arising because the word "aloo" means "potato" in Hindi.^[3]

Vindaloo is not common or popular in most places in India, excluding Goa. The dish has gained popularity in Britain, the Middle East, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, where it is almost universally featured on Indian restaurant menus; it is also sometimes found at Indian restaurants in the United States. It is one of the hottest dishes available on the menu where it is served, although some establishments serve a "Tindaloo" in addition, which is a hotter variant. Phall, a different curry, is also hotter than Vindaloo.

The popularity of the dish inspired the song "Vindaloo", the unofficial anthem of the England football team for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and it was prominently mentioned in the 1978 punk rock song, I Just Want to Have Something To Do, by American punk rock group the Ramones. It is also the favourite food of Dave Lister in the science-fiction comedy Red Dwarf, and is frequently depicted in the show.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} BBC h2g2. "Advice for Eating in an 'Indian' Restaurant in Britain". bbc.co.uk. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3073556. Retrieved 29 September 2007. 
2. ^ "How to cook a vindaloo - students learn from the best". Thames Valley University. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/the_university/news/news_story.jsp?ID=219. Retrieved 29 September 2007. 
3. ^ Hindi/English/Tamil Glossary « Tiffin box

External links

Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Cookbook:Chicken_Vindaloo

• Recipe for Lamb Vindaloo, taken from a 1986 Esquire Magazine
• Recipe for Chicken Vindaloo and Vindaloo Paste
• Goa Food Pork Vindaloo recipe
• Chicken Vindaloo recipe referring to this page on Forkd

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