Help! What can I order from an Indian restaurant if I can't handle ANY spice?
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Anonymous
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I got invited to a dinner Friday night. They are getting takeout from an Indian restaurant. My body can NOT handle spice/heat. At all. Like, if you sprinkle pepper on scrambled eggs, I gulp down two big glasses of water. So far all I know I can eat is naan. If I accidentally eat something with heat, it burns my mouth for two to three days. I read an article on Serious Eats about how to expand your ability to eat spicy foods, and it doesn't work for me.
Is there some sort of plain-ish chicken dish I can order? Some modification I can ask for to get it the least spicy it can possibly be? Please help - I really want to see my preschool-aged niece and luckily she didn't inherit my sensitivities to food. So I can't ask them to order from a different restaurant since that would be rude, and I don't want to just decline the invite. |
Anonymous
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Butter chicken.
Daal maakhani. (Black buttery lentils). Naan or parantha For dessert, stick to Gulab Jamun. Americans tend to like that flavor profile. Also tell the restaurant to make the dish mild. |
Anonymous
| Tandoori chicken or any tandoori dish. No heat. |
Anonymous
| Biryanis aren’t hot. |
Anonymous
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Chicken Saag
Saag Paneer |
Anonymous
| Butter chicken and tandoori are mild but based on OP’s description they will experience both as spicy. |
Anonymous
| Just eat before and have naan at the table. No one cares. |
Anonymous
| Rice and naan. |
Anonymous
| Chicken tikka masaala |
Anonymous
+1. Even my kids can eat this. |
Anonymous
+1 I would stick with daal, rice, and butter naan. |
Anonymous
Inwouldnt. Some saags are spicyb |
Anonymous
| Definitely get some mango lassi. The milk in those could help with any residual spice you may come across. |
Anonymous
| Naan and rice |
Anonymous
| You just say “not spicy” |