Tim I have really come to enjoy Indian food a lot. These great people are amazingly generous. We have become very tight friends.. the wife and I walk together once in a while and we are constantly running back and forth sharing foods and other stuff. He travels back and forth to London a lot so while he is gone I help her out (she doesn’t drive). She was a registered dietitian when she worked, also a lifelong vegan and doesn’t eat sweets or sugar. She knows so much about food choices that are crucial for a healthy vegan eating. She has few kind words for the American idea of what a vegan diet is all about.
15 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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Bread balls is what google told me…chutney is mentioned as well.
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Tim did you live in Kenya as an adult or as a child? How long did you live there? Both of my friends had fathers who were engineers for the government so lived in a compound of sorts. Both went to boarding school in LONDON and went to college in London, France and New York. Interesting people who have had fascinating lives.
15 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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Hk3– thanks for that. I haven’t had time to even research it yet. I have been busy with sick sister issues. I have looked through a few Indian recipe books looking for similar dishes that I have tasted but that has not proved very successful because they have so many different regional foods and languages.
15 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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It looks interesting - reminds me of mincemeat.
15 Sep 21 by member: erikahollister
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it's called a kachori. it's a common snack in North India. the outside is made of flour / whole wheat or regular, and the inside can have a variety of items. yummy... but very fattening as it is typically fried
15 Sep 21 by member: trimthattummy
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I want to say I had this with raisins and cardamom and other things in it. maybe pistachios. it was amazing.
15 Sep 21 by member: Katsolo
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I should say, that's what I remember. partial list, I'm sure.
15 Sep 21 by member: Katsolo
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Thank you for the help TTT. Now I can at least look it up and maybe try to make it.
15 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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Katsolo— you are right, it does have finely chopped pistacios in it.
15 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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Can’t remember what I was doing yesterday, but ask me about amazing food and i can go back decades. 😂. There used to be a show called Spice Goddess and she did an episode on how families created their own garam masala and how it was a signature of sorts. I’d bet she has the insides of these somewhere in her show as it was what I’d call an exquisite blend. I had my treats in India. They were amazing.
15 Sep 21 by member: Katsolo
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Its really great to have such wonderful friends. Takes a friend to be a friend and by your description you have both. Trying different foods is always a tasty adventure.
15 Sep 21 by member: kattay
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ACBelle— I’m not sur why I can’t seem to get a name out of my friends for some of these wonderful things but that is the way it always has been and will continue to be I guess. I feel bad because so often some of these things are sooo not in my WOE yet they are terrific. I always taste or have a small serving and the rest just gets tossed. No one I know is that adventuresome with their food choices.
15 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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They are the east Indian version of a pastie, as they are called in England and and New England; aka empadas throughout Latin nations and here in the Philippines. But, the basic recipe for the East Indian version is .
8 oz (226 g) Ground meat beef or chicken mince
½ cup Onions chopped finely
1 tsp Garlic minced finely
1 tsp Ginger minced finely
½ cup Cilantro Kothmir chopped finely
½ tsp Turmeric haldi
1 tsp Coriander powder Dhania
½ tsp Cumin powder Jeera
1 tsp Vinegar or 1 tbsp lemon juice
½ tsp Salt
½ tsp Pepper
1 tbsp Cooking Oil
In your favorite bread recipe.
Hope this helps,
15 Sep 21 by member: CebuCowboy
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PS, here in the Philippines they add chopped up hard boiled eggs to the mix and they are a big breaks\fast treat. They are a very popular street food!
15 Sep 21 by member: CebuCowboy
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Kenna, maybe they don't tell you so they have an excuse to see you & bring you food. 🙂
16 Sep 21 by member: ACBelle
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Indian food by the way of Africa sounds really interesting. Do you taste currants?
I've had Ethiopian spice mixes, flavor profile is less complex from Indian food from India (Not all regions, very complex) or West Indies (Caribbean, a favorite). Indian food cooked by Chinese or Japanese will have our influences, milder.
16 Sep 21 by member: ACBelle
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Thank you Tim for sharing your history. I bet you have some interesting stories. And thank you everyone for responding.
These people lived next door to me for several years before I really became acquainted with them. We said hi and waved but that was about it. I came home from work one night after about an 18 hour shift, tired and hungry and all I could smell was the wonderful aromas of the food she was cooking. They usually eat dinner between 9-10pm. I picked up a plate, spoon and fork and knocked on their door and said FEED MEEEEEE. We have been close friends every since.. that has to have been 18 years ago. We have even exchanged house and car keys just in case of an emergency. There is another young couple in our culdesac that we share house keys with also. They have little kids and in case of a quake they will need some help. I think I have enough emergency supplies to keep us all going for the required 3 weeks.
16 Sep 21 by member: Kenna Morton
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not sure if someone already answered but these look like something called "aloo banda." It's like a samosa and the outer shell is made from chickpea flour. I so happen to have a Kenyan friend who asked her sister who asked her friend who is South Indian 😁 I hope that helps.
16 Sep 21 by member: mosiarmstrong
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Sorry, have to give a shout out to my neighbor Mosiarmstrong. Brooklyn is in the house!
17 Sep 21 by member: ACBelle
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