[Sca-cooks] Weirdly simple but confusing Indian dish...

[Yamil O Kiwan]

Yes I have encountered a similar dish here in California. When I asked about
it they told me this was a regional style attributed to the southeastern
islands of India. I didn't know India had islands?

Jamal

> From: "Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net>
> Reply-To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:23:23 -0400
> To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] Weirdly simple but confusing Indian dish...
>
> It was called Malabar Chicken, but unlike the four billion
> Malabar chicken recipes all over the Web and elsewhere, it was not a
> chicken curry with coconut milk. This was a lightly-spiced series of
> pounded chicken cutlets, dipped in a coconut-cream egg wash, coated
> with shredded coconut, and sauteed. Served very simply with mango
> chutney. It was a simple, but very good, dish, but I found it hard to
> imagine there wasn't, to put it gently, a heavy Western influence.
>
> Has anybody encountered this one?