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Curry? in southern Italian cooking
"UC" > wrote in message
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> On Oct 18, 4:18 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote:
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>> > On Oct 18, 3:46 pm, "Pandora" > wrote:
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>> >> > On Oct 18, 2:21 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" >
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>> >> >> "Pandora" > wrote in message
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>> >> >> >> Is curry a usual ingredient in southern Italian or Sicilian
>> >> >> >> cooking?
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>> >> >> > NO,no, no!
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>> >> >> > --
>> >> >> > Kisses
>> >> >> > Pandora
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>> >> >> Where do some people get these silly ideas? :-)
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>> >> > I am putting together a Neapolitan dinner. I have a recipe for
>> >> > eggplant stuffed with risotto that calls for curry.
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>> >> Sure it is not a neapolitan dish!
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>> >> I thought the
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>> >> > curry was not going to work at all, and was going to use mushrooms
>> >> > instead of curry. I like the idea of rice and eggplant, but the
>> >> > curry...well, you agree that it's not going to work. Right?
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>> >> I Am italian and I can sure you that it is not a neapolitan dish. But
>> >> if
>> >> you
>> >> like the taste of curry in this dish, put it, but don't say it is a
>> >> neapolitan dish 
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>> >> --
>> >> Kisses
>> >> Pandora
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>> > I know it isn't a Neapolitan dish. We're making quattro stagioni
>> > pizza, Neapolitan lasagne, thousand little things soup, fish in crazy
>> > water, grilled swordfish Sicilian style, etc., and we need a vegetable
>> > dish. I found this recipe in a risotto book ('Risotto' by Christine
>> > Ingram) and thought it could be adapted to go with our Neapolitan-
>> > Sicilian dinner. It's on page 29 of her book. If anyone has a recipe
>> > for risotto-stuffed eggplant that would be 'southern' I'd be
>> > appreciative if you could post it.
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>> > Recipe calls for:
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>> > rice
>> > olive oil
>> > white wine vinegar
>> > vegetable stock
>> > tomato passata
>> > curry
>> > parmesan cheese
>> > pine nuts
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>> Without seeing the AMOUNTS of each ingredient, it's impossible for anyone
>> here to guess how prominent the curry taste might be
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> 1 teaspoon mild curry paste
sigh......
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