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Recipe for Vegan curry

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M0nica Fri 19-Nov-21 19:01:19

GN is featuring a recipe for a vegetable curry, but as it is described as 'Vegan' curry' I assume there is some thing special about it that means only vegans will eat it.

I have read the recipe carefully several times and can see nothing about the recipe that a more common omnivore would not eat, except the excessive amount of sugar or sugar substitute it includes. 1 tbsp palm sugar (or regular sugar)
2 tbsp agave syrup

That is nearly one tablespoon of sugar per portion. Is that its USP, it is so sweet only vegans will eat it? Everything else seems to me a perfectly normal ingredient in a perfectly normal widely consumed vegetable curry.

vegansrock Sun 21-Nov-21 21:30:16

MOnica How do you know it’s vegans doing this? Evidence?
“Cultural appropriation” ??!!! since when was vegetable curry only allowed in one culture? Vegetable curry can be a myriad of recipes. And is vegan curry from a different culture? You are definitely loosing out on this argument. You are irritated by some recipes changing the title. No one else is. Others find it helpful. End of.

Oopsadaisy1 Mon 22-Nov-21 07:22:06

Maybe the original vegetarian curry had some none vegan items in it?
So they altered the recipe.

I’m surprised at the amount of sugar though, usually it’s an abundance of salt in Processed food.

Seems an odd thing to get wound up about though.

Katie59 Mon 22-Nov-21 07:59:41

I’m pretty critical of the original recipes, they are too complex and very few are going to use them. We usually have a curry mid week using leftovers, whatever is left over goes in, practically all of the flavor come from the spices, salt and sugar you use wether there is meat or just vegetables.
It takes practice to get the taste you like, tip, cook the base curry add the rest in small quantities taste it often, if you want lower calories use ground cauliflower instead of rice, very similar texture

varian Mon 22-Nov-21 09:04:31

To describe the use of the word vegan to describe a dish is helpful. It gives more information than the description meat free or vegetarian because it indicates no dairy. no eggs. no products derived from animals.

To call this "cultural appropriation" is patently absurd.

Mollygo Mon 22-Nov-21 09:36:52

Vegan is a great description. It warns non-vegan that there might be things in the dish that they cannot tolerate.

Chardy Mon 22-Nov-21 10:06:08

existed for centuries before veganism became a movement
Apparently veganism has been around for a thousand years. You learn something new...
Vegetarianism 4000 years old

Esspee Mon 22-Nov-21 13:49:43

Vegetarianism is 4000 years old? Really? ???

Esspee Mon 22-Nov-21 13:59:47

There is clear evidence of hominids eating meat 2.6 million years ago Chardy. We don't know about before that but mankind has probably been omnivorous for very much longer.

Rainwashed Mon 22-Nov-21 14:00:31

I think it is fine. to describe it as vegan, so that a anyone would know it didn’t contain animal products, without looking all through the recipe.It would be particularly useful for someone who in not a vegan cooking for a vegan, as they may be unsure what a vegan couldn’t eat.

varian Mon 22-Nov-21 19:27:47

Describing a dish as vegan warns carnivores that there are no animal products in the dish and so if they are insistent on animal products they can avoid it.

M0nica Mon 22-Nov-21 20:11:56

How many carnivores are that inflexible? The number of human carnivores must be countable in single numbers. the vast majority of people are omnivores.

Chardy Mon 22-Nov-21 21:38:57

Esspee

There is clear evidence of hominids eating meat 2.6 million years ago Chardy. We don't know about before that but mankind has probably been omnivorous for very much longer.

I didn't mention meat-eaters. A previous poster had alluded to veganism and vegetarianism being modern phenomena, and pre-dating curries.
To be clear the time line looks like:
Vegetarianism can be traced toIndus Valley Civilizationin 3300–1300BCE
Curries - archaeological evidence dating to 2600 BCE
One of the earliest documented vegans pre-dates Norman Conquest

Katie59 Tue 23-Nov-21 09:22:27

I did learn from my travel in India that around 50% of Indians are vegetarian, certainly they do eat a lot of Beans, Chick Peas and Lupins for protein.
Seems the ancient eating habits persist