Well... "Masala" just means something like "spice mix". There is no one Masala. So... Which Masala is it, Pringles? Which one out of the hundreds did you decide to use to represent all the Masalas!?
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Bro if you are just trying masala for the first time you are in for a real treat
Get you some paneer tikka masala. Trust me. Heavy cream/yoghurt stirred in will help with the heat.
I need to find some of those. Looks tasty
You know what, that's fair and I'll upvote you. I know you're not trying to bash the flavor or anything, you just married your expectation and it simply wasn't what you expected, I've been there.
It literly has red peppers on the box.
Oversight by me.
This story is secondhand.
My brother's first wife was Indian. As a result, he experienced many cuisines he wouldn't have locally in the US. Apparently, she once took him to an Indian restaurant which offered a variety of spiciness levels; he, having been exposed to Indian cooking in the past, thought he could handle it. As such, he ordered the spiciest level of whatever he was eating.
The owner of the restaurant apparently came out and tried to talk him out of it, but he insisted. They prepared the food as requested and he ate it. At the end of the meal, his eyes and nose were running. Per his telling, the owner came out after he had finished it to ask how he had liked the meal. He said that he liked it but that it had topped out his spice tolerance.
According to him, the owner then responded "I thought so. That's why I only gave you medium spice."
Ive been experimenting with more indian vegetarian dishes as meat gets more expensive and lemme tell you even the imported spice mixes or sauce mixes at "mild" are like taking my life in my hands. Indian and indonesian people are on a whooooole other level of spice tolerance.
I have IBS and have always wondered how someone like me in India would even survive.
Glad you shared. This was delightful.
I wish you could have heard it directly from him! He's a much more talented storyteller than I. Regardless, it's great that you enjoyed it!
The spiciness level in some places is really insane. My wife is Indian as well, but she doesn't tolerate very spicy food. I handle it a bit better, but some of the stuff her brother eats would just leave me crying in pain, and again a day later.
In restaurants when they ask which spiciness level we want my wife usually asks if they mean Indian spicy or if it has been adjusted to the country we're in before making a decision.
I usually just take the minimum offered. I don't mind a bit of spice but it's never been the reason I enjoyed a dish.
Masala just means mix, there are hundreds of Indian spice mixes, so this name tells you nothing. For spicy you generally want garam masala, i.e. hot mix.
tbh, Indian is like Mexican and Thai food, assume there's going to be a bit of spiciness in it.
Also don't assume that just because you are tolerant to one (Ex: Mexican, Thai, Korean, Indian, etc) means you are tolerant to the others. You most likely are not.
People think they can handle it, then cry like babies when they're truly tested; myself included. I can nearly drink Tapatio and Sriracha Cock Sauce, but Indian Guntur curries for example send me crying.
Sriracha Cock Sauce
I truly don't know what that is, and I'm afraid to look it up.
Its the kind of bird on the label. I think it shows you the level of spiciness, with the cock being the most spicy one. But searching for those terms might show some masochist applying it to his cock, so yeah, just search for sriracha sauce and you will find it.
Saved me.
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Masala Mashallah
Never had Indian food 🤯
Some of us out here are raised in spiceless white families. I was like 16 when I had cumin for the first time, i still remember where and when I was it was so mind blowing. My mom doesnt even use black pepper :') paprika is "too spicy"
That username is so incredibly perfect in light of this, lmfao, well chosen! 👏
Hey, it just straight up doesn't exist in the Midwest outside of major cities, and then you've got so many options that are similar to what youve had, but not wildly different that it's hard to choose. I was probably close to 30 before I tried Indian food.
What do you mean? Midwest of where? Are you in America maybe?
Just buy ingredients and make some Indian food to try?
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This is about related to Indian food as chocolate is to an old shoe.
So...closely related, but only if you're in the US
Only if someone puked in the shoe.
Masala is fundamentally a blend of spices--though it doesn't necessarily have to be "spicy" as in hot.
Garam Masala literally means "hot spices."
Garam in garam masala is a bit more like warming hot. It's meant to stoke the digestive fire. So it's more the hot of ginger or black pepper. When something is hot like capsicum, you'd hear it was teekhu. Garam masala isn't one recipe of course, but you start to see the same herbs and spices being considered.
You can easily have a garam masala that has no capsicum in it.
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