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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My butter chicken recipe [b]does not have curry[/b] in it.  It has garam masala, cumin and coriander.

I make butter chicken at least once a month and my house/clothes never smell like it.  Did you stir it with your hands or something?  Maybe it’s under your nails.

Maybe cook it on the stovetop instead of in the slow cooker - that way it’s not permeating in your home for hours on end.[/quote]

OK.  I will say it. [b] Your butter chicken recipe... is a butter chicken CURRY recipe[/b].  Curry is not a spice or a spice blend.  Curry is  used to describe a dish that has a sauce component incorporated in it.  Indians don't use the word curry in Hindi.  Two Hindi words were combined by the British - Tari (from tarr - wet) and Kadhi (from kaadh - stewed)..and they started calling everything  curry.    English is not a phonetic language like Hindi. So they  messed up quite a few words as you can imagine.     I think it is an easy concept to understand for the educated folks of DCUM, right?

Only in the west,  someone created a bastardized "curry" spice which is a hodge-podge-everything-but-the-kitchen-sink mixture of spices sold by companies like McCormick, because it tasted "Indian" to them.  See the irony?   If you go to India or even the Indian grocery store here, there is NOTHING CALLED CURRY SPICE.  Therefore, your house can only smell like "curry" if you used something called "Curry" powder sold by McCormick or some western spice company.

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