How did I not know this video existed until now? Thanks for the shout, glad you enjoyed our video, and I'm glad I found this- outstanding stuff, absolutely love the way you worked your way through the story through cooking the dishes. Awesome approach.
My mom grew up in East Africa and they made curry there. The defining thing is all the toppings: peanuts, banana, tomatoes, green onions, raisins and more. Super tasty!
My in-laws make a curry like this! They’re Korean, but they lived in Uganda in the 70s, and learned to make curry there before coming to the U.S. It’s delicious!
One of my favorite foods, viewed through an anthropological lens, and yes, I also saw the same documentary you did. I loved it. :D Awesome work with this!
Adam, I found this segment fascinating & very enjoyable. I have friends from all over the world who make & eat curries. I knew there were subtle differences between each country's curries but I didn't know the differences in the ingredients. Thanks for giving us the information & the history of where curries originated from & wound up going to. Please make more videos like this one. It was wonderful. Thanks.
oh neat! I watched the OTR video a couple months ago and really enjoyed the history lesson. Super cool to see you make some of those dishes here! My personal favorite is a red thai curry and I love eggplant and or sweet potato in mine
Um, it wasn't the British that ended Japan's Isolationism, it was the United States. Specifically Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet. Not that the British didn't use plenty of their own instances of gunboat diplomacy, but this particular one was definitely on us.
Great stuff! Excellent work on the researching. One additional curry to consider is the Indonesian style which incorporates torch ginger, turmeric, garlic, chiles, coriander, lime leaves, and the addition of sambal matah from Bali. You could probably do an entire video on the Balinese sambals themselves!
The story of how Curry went to Japan where now it is more popular than even Sushi, and that’s the truth. During the Meiji restoration the Japanese apes the British using the logic that the Brits too were an island nation. They bought warships from GB. To operate the machinery on board needed muscle. Those days the Japanese did NOT eat Beef (?still following Mahayana Buddhism from India ), the Brits suggested they had better start eating Beef to get strong, and so the Japanese Navy started serving Beef every Friday. But the Japanese sailors did n’t care for the unfamiliar smell of Beef, so next the Brits suggested they cover it up w/ curry powder. And that’s how started the Japanese curry in the 1880s. Have tried it out at Yokosuka at the mouth of Tokyo Bay where the Japanese had their first Naval Base. Lot of small stalls along the quay selling “authentic & original” curry.
For the rajma, I recommend next time (for something different) to swap store-bought rajma masala instead of garam masala (I’ve only tried the MDH brand, so I can’t compare to others, but what I can say is that it’s quite tangy because it has dried pomegranate powder in it).
nice job on the rajma! and way to use the garam (guh-rum) masala at the end, it easily burns. And for the raita (yogurt sauce 🤣) definitely reccomend adding in diced onion, cucumber, and chaat masala.
Great video! Would love to see a Part Two with some more curry recipes from different regions of India or places like Africa, South America, the Pacific etc.
Very well presented video dude! I love your combination of practical cooking combined with educative information. Been watching you for a while and you deserve more subs!
Growing up in the south east my family never ate curry. NOW I think curry looks freakin good because I love a good stew but I don’t even know where to start until now. Thanks for the video.
Japan was forced to open up to international trade by the American Commodore Perry, not the British. Though you're right about British merchants selling British Curry powder in Japan after that happened.
Hey Adam that Jamaica 🇯🇲 goat curry looked BONKERS good. I wouldn’t mind seeing more goat/lamb recipes. In America it’s a undervalued meat My favorite curry: northern Thai Massuman curry. It’s my darling
I love everything about this comment. Would love to do more lamb/goat dishes - I have a video all about birria which you might like. Massaman curry rips! I love that stuff.
I love Thai curries and many regional Indian Curries. Every Thai curry is delicious and complex, many made with coconut cream or milk. Several Indian curries are my favorites like Vindaloo, which is fantastic with its bold vinegar punch, as is Southern Andhra Curry that has coconut and Curry leaves. Rogan Josh is another flavor packed dish as well.
I grew up eating Indonesian curry, of which there are a few types. (Hey, depends what one considers "curry".) But a 45-minute documentary about curry sounds perfect to me, so thanks for the link!
But nows days if you eat with your hands in India people think you r illiterate ( any curry with rice - rajma chawal, kadhi chawal,daal chawal etc ) not All obviously for roti you have to use your hands
its not like Caesar Salad or something with a very specific origin story and ingredient list....a spiced gravy/relish....that goes with various stuff...that comes from the southern half of a vast continent...eaten by different religions and socioeconomic classes for 4000+ years....of course there are going to be a thousand regional variations based on where various things grow and what you are allowed to eat...then a thousand more variations when trade routes connect those places...then vaster trade routes that take the concept, regional ingredients and ingredient combinations even further...
Given how this covers a cooking style with Commonwealth masala being used for most of them, have you given thought to doing a video of another cooking style known as stir-frying, which is equally complex & even comes in different moisture levels including sautéing in the midway points?
The Jamaicans I used to work with would take their fork and pull the meat off the goat bone, and then place it in a piece of roti with rice and curry sauce. Seems the way to eat that one.
I watch a lot of competitive eaters and Beardmeatsfood from the UK has done some fish and chips challenges with curry. But looks more like the brown one in the videos. Think they changed recipes over the years?
I have never heard of British curry. Sure many people in Britain have a go making it, but to suggest there is a sort of unique uniform style us brits conform to when making curry at home, I'm not convinced. We do have fish and chip shop style curry sauce and most Indian restaurants in Britain conform to the same curry naming convention (Bhuna, Jalfrezi, korma, madras, tikka masala, vindaloo, phaal, ceylon, pathia, dansak, passanda, ect).
he's giving a historical timeline of curry, not insisting such a curry is part of culture today. but that style of curry was indeed prominant and significant during that period- and it is what many other countries around the world adopted curries from. Nowadays it is out of fashion, and we eat a different style of curry at british indian restaurants.
it's not just curry, it's nearly everything now. We are living in the time of globalization, curry, noodles, sandwiches, pizza. Now everything is available everywhere.
"This is literally curry every ". Vin Do You think id notice? (Ill see myself out, but i need to grab some mangos and lemon grass. Geez, grass can make a man go). I accept the disapproving glares
Americans forced Japan open, during the late Edo period, the Meiji restoration was a time were Japan heavily westernized under the lead of Emperor Meiji after Emperor Meiji and a Few other Japanese clans overthrew the shogunate
Hey Adam... so trying to make this short I'll just say this was great and I think you should do the same about masalla paste. I know quite a bit about it and its technique as well as recipes for good curries made of it etc. I'll be glad to write more and explain and share if you provide me an email or something.
The joker left out all the best and original curries - from India of course ! Try Butter chicken, Bengali ( Hindu ) goat curry which has been copied from Nepal to Jamaica.
I don't think the western people learn anything about non-eurocentric history In my opinion Westerners should learn about Indianization of south-east asia. Hindu/buddhist empires like Majapahit empire and rajahnate of cebu (philipinnes) Chola dynasty invasion in indonesia etc. Or how religions like Buddhism and Hinduism spread in asia. Watch Kings and general youtube channel it has many videos that cover such topics like trades between india China Romans middle east africa south east asia. When you said harrapans spread to different areas to spread the knowledge of curry thats honestly the dumbest thing I have heard in my life. Because that shows how unaware people in west are about ancient trades. Just like the game of Chess and number system which spread from India to the world the same way many other things spread because of ancient and medieval trades.
1) BCE. Before Common Era. Not BC. 2) you are making an ancient curry but you used green chilli and tomato in your 2500 BCE curry. Chillies and tomatoes came from the New World, and didn't make it over to Europe/Asia till the 1500s. So ..4000 years later. May I suggest emailing a cultural anthropologist or Food Historian next time you make historic ethnic foods?
How did I not know this video existed until now? Thanks for the shout, glad you enjoyed our video, and I'm glad I found this- outstanding stuff, absolutely love the way you worked your way through the story through cooking the dishes. Awesome approach.
I had a blast making this video and couldn't have done it without your hard work and thorough research. Your channel rocks. Thank YOU!
@@AdamWitt get a room
My mom grew up in East Africa and they made curry there. The defining thing is all the toppings: peanuts, banana, tomatoes, green onions, raisins and more. Super tasty!
That sounds wild, would love to try a peanut banana curry.
My in-laws make a curry like this! They’re Korean, but they lived in Uganda in the 70s, and learned to make curry there before coming to the U.S. It’s delicious!
I'm from Nigeria. We sometimes make it that way as well. Miss that!
In tamil laungage curry means meat 😊
@@Poornima.jJayram-qg1rm wrong Tamil curry comes from Kari leaves or what we call today as curry leaves
One of my favorite foods, viewed through an anthropological lens, and yes, I also saw the same documentary you did. I loved it. :D
Awesome work with this!
Thanks Seth
Impact of indian spice and spice route is incredible
Africa Europe middle east, east asia ,south east Aisa everywhere
Thank you for shouting out OTR. That channel is criminally undersubscribed.
He does incredible work. Happy to.
Adam, I found this segment fascinating & very enjoyable.
I have friends from all over the world who make & eat curries. I knew there were subtle differences between each country's curries but I didn't know the differences in the ingredients. Thanks for giving us the information & the history of where curries originated from & wound up going to.
Please make more videos like this one. It was wonderful. Thanks.
Yo Dee. Np. Glad you liked it!
Thanks
Got damn have me starving for curry. Impressed with the pronunciations!
Also… absolutely relatable intro hahaha
xD ty
oh neat! I watched the OTR video a couple months ago and really enjoyed the history lesson. Super cool to see you make some of those dishes here! My personal favorite is a red thai curry and I love eggplant and or sweet potato in mine
Um, it wasn't the British that ended Japan's Isolationism, it was the United States. Specifically Commodore Matthew Perry and his fleet. Not that the British didn't use plenty of their own instances of gunboat diplomacy, but this particular one was definitely on us.
And just like that I'm now subscribed and following OTR and diving into their other videos.
His channel is amazing. Enjoy the rabbit hole.
Love the history angles, more please.
Great stuff! Excellent work on the researching. One additional curry to consider is the Indonesian style which incorporates torch ginger, turmeric, garlic, chiles, coriander, lime leaves, and the addition of sambal matah from Bali. You could probably do an entire video on the Balinese sambals themselves!
YUM. I want to go to Bali.
The story of how Curry went to Japan where now it is more popular than even Sushi, and that’s the truth. During the Meiji restoration the Japanese apes the British using the logic that the Brits too were an island nation. They bought warships from GB. To operate the machinery on board needed muscle. Those days the Japanese did NOT eat Beef (?still following Mahayana Buddhism from India ), the Brits suggested they had better start eating Beef to get strong, and so the Japanese Navy started serving Beef every Friday. But the Japanese sailors did n’t care for the unfamiliar smell of Beef, so next the Brits suggested they cover it up w/ curry powder. And that’s how started the Japanese curry in the 1880s. Have tried it out at Yokosuka at the mouth of Tokyo Bay where the Japanese had their first Naval Base. Lot of small stalls along the quay selling “authentic & original” curry.
For the rajma, I recommend next time (for something different) to swap store-bought rajma masala instead of garam masala (I’ve only tried the MDH brand, so I can’t compare to others, but what I can say is that it’s quite tangy because it has dried pomegranate powder in it).
Woah, that sound awesome. I'm down to try it.
Thanks Adam. Dig on your channel. Keep cookin man. 🤘
nice job on the rajma! and way to use the garam (guh-rum) masala at the end, it easily burns. And for the raita (yogurt sauce 🤣) definitely reccomend adding in diced onion, cucumber, and chaat masala.
Thanks dude. Raita is a staple in my house. We go between that and tzatziki for our yogurt based sauces.
Great video! Would love to see a Part Two with some more curry recipes from different regions of India or places like Africa, South America, the Pacific etc.
Good work, very few get it and you completely get it...
Very well presented video dude! I love your combination of practical cooking combined with educative information. Been watching you for a while and you deserve more subs!
This is awesome. Great video my boy
Dude, I’ve always wanted to see this (curries by country/region with histories) broken down. Can’t believe I stumbled upon this, dope stuff!!
Love OTR!
Growing up in the south east my family never ate curry. NOW I think curry looks freakin good because I love a good stew but I don’t even know where to start until now. Thanks for the video.
I recently went down the curry history rabbit hole myself. One of my favorite variations of curry is beef rendang from Indonesia.
amazing vid ma dude you've got talent for this type of content
Really nice video, Adam 😊✌️❤️🔥
My favorite curries are: Thai, and Japanese; but I suspect I would love West Indian too. Thank you Adam for sharing! 👏🏻👍🏻🤤
Japan was forced to open up to international trade by the American Commodore Perry, not the British. Though you're right about British merchants selling British Curry powder in Japan after that happened.
Dish name is only Rajma, chawal means rice in Hindi language. Rajma is usually eaten with rice in northern part of India, as a wholesome meal
Do you know Germany has sausages sliced over chips with curry sprinkle as a street dish?
Indeed, currywurst!
@@AdamWitt also curried sausages are quite beloved in the Australian Indigenous modern culture (along with Luke Coombs somehow)
Hey Adam that Jamaica 🇯🇲 goat curry looked BONKERS good. I wouldn’t mind seeing more goat/lamb recipes. In America it’s a undervalued meat
My favorite curry: northern Thai Massuman curry. It’s my darling
I love everything about this comment. Would love to do more lamb/goat dishes - I have a video all about birria which you might like. Massaman curry rips! I love that stuff.
Never had curry before. Would love to experience it, the right way.
I love Thai curries and many regional Indian Curries. Every Thai curry is delicious and complex, many made with coconut cream or milk. Several Indian curries are my favorites like Vindaloo, which is fantastic with its bold vinegar punch, as is Southern Andhra Curry that has coconut and Curry leaves. Rogan Josh is another flavor packed dish as well.
I love curry goat!!!
I grew up eating Indonesian curry, of which there are a few types. (Hey, depends what one considers "curry".) But a 45-minute documentary about curry sounds perfect to me, so thanks for the link!
My favorite curry is Moghul Chicken. It's a 3 hour preparation, and it's amazing.
Thai green 💚💚💚
What a great curry journey… Thank you
Us Indians actually eat food with our hands! That was awesome to watch you do the same. You did justice to our cuisine!🙌
But nows days if you eat with your hands in India people think you r illiterate ( any curry with rice - rajma chawal, kadhi chawal,daal chawal etc ) not All obviously for roti you have to use your hands
its not like Caesar Salad or something with a very specific origin story and ingredient list....a spiced gravy/relish....that goes with various stuff...that comes from the southern half of a vast continent...eaten by different religions and socioeconomic classes for 4000+ years....of course there are going to be a thousand regional variations based on where various things grow and what you are allowed to eat...then a thousand more variations when trade routes connect those places...then vaster trade routes that take the concept, regional ingredients and ingredient combinations even further...
0:17 I mean... U basically gained more knowledge expanded your repertoire, sounds like a huge win to me! you're skill-maxing.
Given how this covers a cooking style with Commonwealth masala being used for most of them, have you given thought to doing a video of another cooking style known as stir-frying, which is equally complex & even comes in different moisture levels including sautéing in the midway points?
Indonesian Curry Please! They're great too with chicken especially!
Adam, mild curry in Britain is not that common. Check out the recipes from The Curry Guy and Misty Ricardo for plenty of recipes to go at.
Although all of the curries are excellent, curry goat is always a solid winner. He pulled it off, and explained it perfectly. Thank you!
The Jamaicans I used to work with would take their fork and pull the meat off the goat bone, and then place it in a piece of roti with rice and curry sauce. Seems the way to eat that one.
It's too hard to choose my favorite curry! It entirely depends on my mood.
I watch a lot of competitive eaters and Beardmeatsfood from the UK has done some fish and chips challenges with curry. But looks more like the brown one in the videos. Think they changed recipes over the years?
what was the name of the documentary?
You sir have a brand new subscriber!!!!!
Welcome.
Considering the history, I would’ve called @8:27 “coloniser curry” 😂
I have never heard of British curry. Sure many people in Britain have a go making it, but to suggest there is a sort of unique uniform style us brits conform to when making curry at home, I'm not convinced. We do have fish and chip shop style curry sauce and most Indian restaurants in Britain conform to the same curry naming convention (Bhuna, Jalfrezi, korma, madras, tikka masala, vindaloo, phaal, ceylon, pathia, dansak, passanda, ect).
he's giving a historical timeline of curry, not insisting such a curry is part of culture today. but that style of curry was indeed prominant and significant during that period- and it is what many other countries around the world adopted curries from. Nowadays it is out of fashion, and we eat a different style of curry at british indian restaurants.
Because there are so many different “species” of people. 😎.
If he's not Omnivorous Adam anymore, then what is he?!
Just a dude who digs curry I guess.
@@AdamWitt Curryious Adam maybe?
I liked the Omnivorous Adam name...
Love how witty some of your comments are, Adam.
I see what you did there.
it's not just curry, it's nearly everything now. We are living in the time of globalization, curry, noodles, sandwiches, pizza. Now everything is available everywhere.
how long did it take to get that rice out of your car?
It must’ve been the algorithm at work because I saw that OTR episode about a week or so ago
Hey you can't live my life I watch UA-cam to learn cooking and history of foods I love
ive been telling people that katsu curry came after chip shop curry for year, but they didnt believe me
Cajun curry.. aka gumbo
Given that Columbus didn't sail till 1492, I don't think the Portugese were bringing potatoes and tomatoes to India in the 1400's...
Me, another normal human being, having seen that same 45 min curry video
Sri Lankans too have curry - in a different style...
Taste history coin it!!!!
😋😋😋
"This is literally curry every ". Vin Do You think id notice? (Ill see myself out, but i need to grab some mangos and lemon grass. Geez, grass can make a man go). I accept the disapproving glares
Curry is so good but I’m always so intimidated to make it.
Pussy
Americans forced Japan open, during the late Edo period, the Meiji restoration was a time were Japan heavily westernized under the lead of Emperor Meiji after Emperor Meiji and a Few other Japanese clans overthrew the shogunate
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I could subsist entirely on these foods, I know you like pizza, but curry trumps it
Why didnt you just dine in the restaurant?
Hey Adam... so trying to make this short I'll just say this was great and I think you should do the same about masalla paste. I know quite a bit about it and its technique as well as recipes for good curries made of it etc. I'll be glad to write more and explain and share if you provide me an email or something.
The joker left out all the best and original curries - from India of course ! Try Butter chicken, Bengali ( Hindu ) goat curry which has been copied from Nepal to Jamaica.
That bengali (hindu) goat curry, thr taste of that niramish mangsho is very good, different from the usual onion-garlic taste waale curries....
Wait i know that video.
Banana 😢
Japanese!
Soooo, we're just not going to address the name change? Lol
Also, can we talk about the size of that cinnamon stick???
Oh, and wait, it was the americans who opened up trade with japan, by force, of course
Tomatoes came from the America’s so the first curry dish isn’t authentic.
curry can be make without tomatoes
So you think Curry is all about tomato
I don't think the western people learn anything about non-eurocentric history
In my opinion
Westerners should learn about
Indianization of south-east asia. Hindu/buddhist empires like Majapahit empire and rajahnate of cebu (philipinnes) Chola dynasty invasion in indonesia etc.
Or how religions like Buddhism and Hinduism spread in asia.
Watch Kings and general youtube channel it has many videos that cover such topics like trades between india China Romans middle east africa south east asia.
When you said harrapans spread to different areas to spread the knowledge of curry thats honestly the dumbest thing I have heard in my life.
Because that shows how unaware people in west are about ancient trades.
Just like the game of Chess and number system which spread from India to the world the same way many other things spread because of ancient and medieval trades.
Was a little disappointed to see you use new world ingredients, particularly with the older Indian dish
This is a kind of one year of labor to cook food😂 as a white person
Just wanna point out... harra literally means shit.
Just sayin'
Butchered history and geography 😑
Not quite sure this is a standard Japanese curry. Use beef or chicken instead. Also, don't use tomato paste.
Tell that to the Japanese chef who made it xD
1) BCE. Before Common Era. Not BC. 2) you are making an ancient curry but you used green chilli and tomato in your 2500 BCE curry. Chillies and tomatoes came from the New World, and didn't make it over to Europe/Asia till the 1500s. So ..4000 years later. May I suggest emailing a cultural anthropologist or Food Historian next time you make historic ethnic foods?
BC is Before Christ
sent you a message on discord and i mentioned my favourite curry there
heck yeah, I'll check it out.
Curry origin from tamilnadu , they still cLled ( KARI ), research it properly
Ohh tamil is another country! Thanks for clarifying 👍
Mohenjo-DarO is in Sindh, not Punjab.
What a great curry journey… Thank you