On Oct 2, 1:14Â*am, happy > wrote:
> Indian food lovers,
>
> Variety is the spice of life, so I decided to try taking the common
> chicken sausage, and using Indian spices to make it more palatable to
> the western carnivore.
>
> http://naturedietcure.org/Chicken_Chili_Sausage.htm
Thanks, but the German national fast food - currywurst - sounds more
enticing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currywurst
Currywurst (German pronunciation: [ˈkÅ“ÊiËŒvÊŠÊst]) is a fast-food dish
of German origin consisting of hot pork sausage (German: Wurst) cut
into slices and seasoned with curry sauce (regularly consisting of
ketchup or tomato paste blended with curry) and generous amounts of
curry powder, or a ready-made ketchup-based sauce seasoned with curry
and other spices. It is frequently served at German 'Imbissbuden' and
from food trucks.
The invention of currywurst is attributed to Herta Heuwer in Berlin in
1949 after she obtained ketchup, Worcestershire sauce and curry powder
from British soldiers.[1] She mixed these ingredients with other
spices and poured it over grilled pork sausage. Heuwer started selling
the cheap but filling snack at a street stand in the Charlottenburg
district where it became popular with construction workers rebuilding
the devastated city. She patented her sauce, called Chillup, in 1951.
[1] At its height the stand was selling 10,000 servings per week.[2]
She later opened a small restaurant which operated until 1974.[3]
Today, currywurst is often sold as a take-out/take-away food,
Schnellimbisse (snacks), at diners or "greasy spoons," on children's
menus in restaurants, or as a street food. Usually served with french
fries or bread rolls (brötchen), it is popular all over Germany but
particularly popular in the metropolitan areas of Berlin, Hamburg and
the Ruhr Area. Considerable variation both in the type of sausage used
and the ingredients of the sauce occurs between these areas. Common
variations include the addition of paprika or chopped onions. Often
currywurst is sold in food booths, sometimes using a special machine
to slice it into pieces, and served on a paper plate with a little
wooden or plastic fork. It is also sold as a supermarket-shelf product
to prepare at home.
An estimated 800 million servings are sold in Germany each year.[4]