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The nostalgia of goat meat Empty The nostalgia of goat meat

Post by confuzzled dude Fri Dec 26, 2014 8:49 pm

When I was growing up in Nepal in the 1990s, I couldn’t wait for Saturdays. What made them extraordinary wasn’t the fact that my father would make me go buy milk from the government dairy truck at dawn, or help him clean the garage and give the German shepherd a bath.

It was that Saturday was goat curry day.

On occasional Fridays, my father would bring home fresh fish from Fewa Lake, caught by security guards in the local irrigation office where he worked. We called those “Good Fridays” because he and my mother would prepare an elaborate meal — deep-fried trout marinated in curry and yogurt and a thick fish-head stew — while my brother and I studied our multiplication tables.

If Fridays were good, Saturdays were grand. After my father and I would return from the butcher with bags of perfectly cubed goat meat, Mom would start cooking: In our tiny kitchen she would chop red onions and tomatoes, soak cumin and coriander seeds in water, and then grind them with garlic and green chilies on a flat stone with a pestle. As rice, dal and vegetables cooked separately, she would saute the onions, basil leaves, cloves and cardamom, then fry the goat in a pressure cooker sitting on a coiled clay heater. She would scoop the paste from the stone, add it to the cooker, throw in a few pinches of turmeric and a little salt, and close the lid. When the pressure cooker whistled for the third time — 25 to 30 minutes later — lunch was almost ready.

The dish that emerged was something my father would describe as first-class khasi ko maasu: extraordinary goat curry.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/the-bridge-that-connects-america-with-my-nepali-homeland-goat/2014/12/22/16706518-8540-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html?adkjfhge&tid=ptv_rellink

-> Tomatoes in goat curry! some telugus make gongura mutton curry.

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