Recipe for Vegan curry

In this instance I think it's reasonable to describe the dish as 'Vegan curry' in the title of the piece. In the overall 'food scene' despite its increasing popularity, vegan dishes are not so common so it's OK to emphasis it's vegan, IMO.

www.gransnet.com/food/vegan-curry

On a restaurant menu if would be 'Vegetable curry (vg)'

India has the highest level of vegans per head of population in the world.

Not surprisingly.

I think describing a recipe as vegan simply indicates that it contains no animal products whatsoever, which is helpful for people who do not wish to consume those products. Describing something as a vegetable curry doesn’t tell you anything about what other ingredients might be included. I once had a very helpful Italian teacher (who was neither vegan nor vegetarian) who advised me never to order mushroom risotto in Italy as it would be made using chicken stock (along with several other dishes).

I put half a teaspoon of sugar in a tomato based sauce. 3 tablespoons must be a misprint - it's too much for a pudding even.
I use banana for sweetness in a curry. I only use vegan bananas.?

Re: your main comment; Vegan curry they could give a hint of some ingredients in the name.
Next week look out for Carnivore Casseroles.

This has turned into an anti vegan rant.

How have “vegans who have taken over recipes”? Do only vegans write recipes and “slap their name on it”? Surely it’s cookery / recipe writers that do this, maybe to give some indication of what’s in the recipe? There isn’t som huge army of vegans going round writing recipes and claiming ownership is there? There’s nothing to stop anyone eating a vegan dish if they want to - they don’t have to join some non existent club. I wouldn’t put sugar in a curry btw, that doesn’t make it vegan.

I just get irritated the way Vegans have taken over all recipes that do not have animal products in them, as if they were exclusively for them.

Most people, mostly omnivore,s have been eating entirely plant based dishes most of their lives. They just get called vegetable curry, cauliflower curry, tomato sauce, etc etc. All of a sudden Vegans seem to have claimed them all as theres.

I have every respect for anyone who is a Vegan or Vegetarian, but those are descriptions of them and the eating pattern that they have, I just get fed up with the way they have taken over all plant based dishes and slapped their name on them as if they invented them and owned them and the dishes were only suitable for them.

The comment about sugar was a throw away remark, but I do not put sugar in any savoury dish, but I understand why some do, but three tablespoons in what is meant to be a savoury dish for four? It must taste like a pudding, bleurgh!

If a recipe has a lot of tomatoes I usually put a bit of sugar in the sauce, but probably only a teaspoon for about 6 portions. It is supposed to counteract the acidity.

Perhaps it is a misprint?

It's the fermentation process the lactic acid content where it derived from. The details of which are usually left out. My niece is vegan and precise about every little detail. Sugar or syrup is used to balance the flavour in any food. It's like adding sugar to tomato sauces etc.

M0nica, yes, it is a bit daft. I make all sorts of curries that are eaten by vegans, veggies and carnivores alike. They're kept simple though, just onions, spices and various veg that I have to hand, often with a tin of tomatoes and chickpeas or green lentils.

Favourites include cauliflower, carrot, spinach and courgette. I add coconut cream or extra potato to make them milder for children. They like some added raisins for a pop of sweetness - but I wouldn't add sugar. We like them with bread (well, home made bannock) rather than rice.

If I add tofu, somehow they're viewed as 'vegan' - as it's seen as a meat substitute.

Sugar isn’t necessaryily vegan. Sugar from cane may have been filtered through bone ash, to make it white. Beet sugar is always vegan.

I find the idea of putting sugar or syrup into a curry very odd!

I guess that Vegan includes Vegetarian, whereas if it’s described as Vegetarian Vegans won’t want to try it.