Relishing regional Indian food for #CurryforChange

Last week, I invited you to cook #CurryforChange, and I do hope you took up the offer. If you’ve signed up to host a supperclub, I expect your mind has turned to the menu, and what to do that will see your guests hands dipping as deep into pockets as possible.

‘Curry’ gives you endless scope. As I hope and expect y’all understand only too well, ‘curry’ is simply a catch-all term that (too) many use to mean the vast repertoire that falls under the umbrella of ‘Indian food’.

So narrow down the options: make your supperclub a showcase of a certain community or region’s recipes. The fantastic five I’ve proposed below should further increase your appetite to cook #CurryforChange quite nicely.

Now simply click the links to become an instant expert on some of India’s incredible regional cuisines…

And, if you’ve yet to find it in your heart to get involved with Find Your Feet, you can send off for a fundraising pack here.

Goa

In a nutshell: Fiery-hot, much meat and seafood, coconut-crazy, European-style cakes’n’bakes, awesome Goa sausage

Where to try it: Assado and Ma Goa

Read all about it 

See some essential Goan dishes

Learn to cook it Hilda’s Touch of Spice, Bongong and Goan Food Recipes

Kerala

In a nutshell: Coconut.. oil; flesh; milk; cream, delicate flavours, wild meat, banana-leaf feasts, curry leaves, a veggie’s nirvana

Where to try it: Iyer’s Cafe, Rasa group and Curry Leaf Cafe

Read all about it

See some essential Keralite dishes

Learn to cook it Peppertrail, Palakkad Chamayal, Maria’s Menu, and My Diverse Kitchen

Bengal

In a nutshell: Mustard oil, fragrant panch phoron, fabulous fish, legendary biryani, Calcutta street food, a heavy hand with sugar

Where to try it: Darjeeling Express

Read all about it 

See some essential Bengali dishes

Learn to cook it: Bong Mom’s Cookbook, The Bengali Five Spice Chronicles and Cook Like A  Bong

Gujarat

KO Rasoi’s Masala poori

Geniuses with gram and all types of dal, superb snacks, slightly sweet, vegetable-rich, light, homely and nourishing

Where to try it: Gujarati Rasoi, Maru’s Bhajia House and Sakonis

Read all about it

See some essential Gujarati dishes

Learn to cook it: Gujarati Girlie, Devnaa’s India and K.O. Rasoi

Parsi

In a nutshell: carnivorous, Persian-influenced, British-ish nursery puds, attitude that potatoes and eggs improve almost anything

Where to try it: Cafe Spice Namaste (especially the monthly Khaadraas Club)

Read all about it

See some essential Parsi dishes

Learn to cook it: Bawi Bride, #BestKeptSecrets Eedu (egg) edition and Parsi Cuisine

So let me know – where will the curry YOU cook for Find Your Feet hail from?

• Sign up to host a #CurryforChange supperclub here
• Top tips for hosts here
• Read about some key #CurryforChange supporters here
• Read about Find Your Feet’s work on Times of India blogs here 
• See the Bombay Bad Boy chocolate cheesecake recipe here
• Watch the Bombay Bad Boy chocolate cheesecake being made here
• Watch #CurryforChange supporters talk about the cause here

Image credit: Goan prawn curry Mallika Basu