@Johney Smith well your people are known for not having the best eyesight so it's understandable as to why you say stupid shit about something you can't see
I have to admit that I have only been to an Authentic Indian restaurant twice and fast food Indian several times. I grew up in mid-size cities in the US and there just aren't many choices when it comes to international cuisine. Though I love, cilantro (because I spent half of my life near the border of Mexico), I really don't care for the spices and flavor combinations of Indian food. There really isn't many foods I don't like. Maybe I've just never found the right dishes.
@Johney Smith we live in 2020. If you think eating everything that moves is smart, you're stupid. _COUGH_ covid 19 _COUGH_ Ebola and lots of others oh and animals have existed long before us humans so like that statement does not make sense by any means :)
Curry Powder? Indian chefs are spitting nails at the thought of it. Queen Victoria's Indian servants used the proper fresh spices to make the daily curry for the Queen's lunch, not curry powder!
Greg Paul: Not to mention, as well, that the word "curry" was invented by the British, who couldn't even pronounce the real, proper Indian word for combinatiins of spices, and were such arrogant colonialists, that they didn't care. And "curries" vary so widely, from place to place, town town, city to city, in this vast country named after the Indus River. "Curry" doesn't exist.
@@starorcarina8525 if they insult then they won't be spared. Because British trash dishes start with fried eggs or puddings and ends with red meat with a topping of mashed potato. What a horrible food habit 😆😁😆😆😆
Kind of a bittersweet experience for me for obvious reasons. On one hand, I have absolutely no regard for the British crown and its association with the East India Company, but then I love England and its culture, I am as much a proud Indian as I am a Manchester United supporter, and british rock n roll get me through my daily routine. All my favorite comedies are British as well.
It’s all done In the name of the crown but the monarch had no political power. Decisions were made by prime ministers and leading military ppl. Conquering India was never on the royal agenda, but it was on the govt’s
It is a tough one isn't it but the number of TCK's is increasing in the world till all will be well! I myself do not give a hoot about football except in world cups finals then my genes speak to me!LOLOL England seems to honor in many ways Indian culture, you are lucky! the whole world actually! Isn't the idea to take the best from each culture and leave the bad for them to deal with?😊
@@Solmaz_S Audley End is built on the royal processional route, ie a big circuit of fancy aristocrats that the royal family would visit and stay with every year.
It's clear the British don't know anything about the curry, basically a curry means nothing in india, because there are at least a thousand varities of curry in India.
That's because "curry" wasn't even an Indian concept, it was a British one. Indian spice traders would mix everything together and market it to Brits that way. In other words, Indians didn't invent curry, Brits did. So yeah, they do know something about it.
@@elbruces you are right. The word curry itself is British. There was no word like that ever in Tamil. Well maybe, but Tamil was itself never Indian, it’s a British language. Yeah so Indians borrowed curry from Brits. Thank God they left atleast that behind when they practically looted everything else. Oh wait, the word loot is Indian. No, that’s Anglo Indian. For the right reasons.
@@ambarishdebgupta7762 The British/Indian spice trade was definitely a thing. So much so that Brits got into Indian spice mixes in a big way. I'm not saying they "invented" the spices. Just that the combination we call "curry" is a British thing, not an Indian thing. See all the other posts pointing out that "curry" isn't an Indian concept. Well it had to come from somewhere... Calling it "a mishmash of Indian-sourced spices in your food" isn't as catchy.
My pop made the pudding in Guyana South America its not original from England we did because of the dried fruit and we put rum eventually it became the famous black cake that was colored with burnt sugar. The fruits were soaked for a year in earth jars cheap wine was also added.
Well the Indian restaurants in London that invented Chicken Tikka Masada say that it is not an Indian dish, because they developed it to British tastes, such as liking lots of sauce.
@@howler9503 there is nothing wrong in being proud of their heritage but calling themselves 'Great Britain' and thinking they elevated curries is a bit pretentious Indian curry in India tastes better
Onion Bhaji is might be from Indian state Maharashtra we are having it for ages. The variety of onion bhaji "Khekda kanda bhaji" translation "crab onion bhaji" (looks like carb) is madly popular in the Western Maharashtra. This is the best street food along with "Vada Pav".
Thank you for posting this video, the food looks beautifully made. I was introduced to Indian food when I first moved to NJ in my early 20s. I think my taste buds exploded at my first bite of a curry. I loved it so much I spent an entire year eating Indian food exclusively - breakfast, lunch and dinner - plus the occasional mango lassi. The food is flavorful, sophisticated and comforting, and it always seems to be prepared with a lot of care. I loved it so much I couldn't get enough of it. I was also lucky to live in an area that had several excellent Indian restaurants, and sure took advantage of it! Thank you again Michael Buerk and Chefs Paul Ainsworth and Atul Kochhar for showing us these beautiful dishes.
@Giselle Tansey Same. Changed my life when I was introduced to Indian/Pakistani cuisine at 19. It was crazy, all I wanted to eat, everyday and would literally crave it so intensely. It would ruin my day if I missed the lunch special at the local curry house lol
Although I'm happy you like our Cusine, no, that is NOT Indian food. You will get yourself shot if you add apple In a curry. Also, no one in India calls it "curry" it's so cringe for us to watch.
I really enjoy these Royal Royalty cooking shows. I learn about food dishes and a bit of history, too. Michael and Paul work well together in making these shows a treat.
I love how enthusiastic Chef Paul is, and Michael reminds me of a naughty boy, just waiting for the chef to turn his back on whatever's cooking for just a moment....just long enough to sneak a little taste. Michael really should be given tastes throughout the process, so that we might taste everything vicariously through him.
Tomatoes, potatoes... So interesting that two major components of the dish not only originated in India, but also the Americas. It's so strange to me that the Old World didn't have these New World ingredients since the beginning of their culinary history. They're just so integrated into cultures around the world.
The tomato was introduced to India only during the 16th century, the potato during the 17th - by the Portuguese; who came in contact with them in South America
Potatoes and tomatoes originated in the Americas not India. The reason that "Old World" didn't have these ingredients is because they are "New World" ingredients and could not have been used before 1492 when Columbus "discovered" the "New World"
My Hindi skills are poor so correct me if I'm wrong. Doesn't khaari mean whole spices? I assume in the old days since only the whole ones were used, that's where the name came from.
@@soumiguha9306 What you mean is called Khada Masala (whole spice) whereas "Kharaa" means pure like Kharaa Sona (Pure Gold). Also, Khaaraa means savoury or salty. Curry or Kari literally means meat in Tamil (Kari Kuzhambu means Meat Curry). Maybe the word "Curry" was derived from there.
Not only food and the dinning room are inspired by India, but The Queen had paintings done of the Indians that her people would talk about so she would know what they looked like. Miniature Indian buildings were made from paper with every detail so she could she how beautiful the buildings were in India. You can see them at Osborn house
The surprising thing is that before Portuguese cane to India the curry was mild and had no chillies or tomatoes or potatoes. The heat was derived from black pepper and cinnamon. I have tasted the true Indian food in a temple in Odisha where they dont use chilies or veggies introduced by foreigners. It's all indigenous veggies
This is a common theme across the food cultures of Europe and Asia. China for example did not know about red chilies (or potatoes and corn, for that matter) until the 16th century, when they were introduced into the land by Portuguese merchants. Most historians agree today that China's population broke the 100 mil barrier in 1600s thanks in part to the high yield of potatoes. We owe a lot of our modern palettes to the native people of Americas.
Well, yes. British food was once terrible. Even an Englishman, W. Somerset Maugham, once said "to dine well in England, one must breakfast three times a day."
India is an emerging economy because the Raj enforced the English language upon them. Until then, there were so many dialects, they would have never been able to move forward so dramatically as they have.... so that is no small positive.
John R I’m not talking about the current Queen Elizabeth. I’m talking about the Queen Elizabeth the first. She introduced Indian curries to the British monarchy and it has been a tradition ever since.
@John R Plus, she grew up at a time when even she sort of had to go by whatever could be rationed. Still ate better than most, but the time of extravagant dinners was mostly over
Curry powder was created for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth ll in 1953 to create the Coronation Chicken dish which was served to the foreign dignitaries. It was a British creation using spices brought from India by an employee of the British East India Company. Most British households wouldn’t have had the rare and oftentimes expensive spices used to create the dish, but the curry powder made it more readily accessible . Not all curry powders are equal. Some brands are quite good, or one can create it .
I could eat Indian flavours EVERY DAY forever. Also, right off the bat, what was the host talking about “using curry powder a cheat”? Lol 😆 The chef just let it slide. I guess the host isn’t much of a cook 🤷🏼♀️ Gonna go make this with chicken.
France and England are so interwoven and so related in many ways. It's always been amusing/dismaying to me how much the British dislike and dismiss the French. Cultural interactions are amusing... huh... two French root words in that last sentence. It's almost like English is 25% (or slightly more) comes from French.
My gggGrandfather was born on the Isle of Wight, at Ryde. It fascinates me that Queen Victoria had a residence there. I would love to enjoy the seafood from the Isle of wight alongside a wonderful Indian palate of spices!
Love Indian cuisine that I can get living the the DC area as all the embassies here mean such a variety of food. When it’s made properly or authentically it’s pure bliss.
The curry tree is a tropical to sub-tropical tree in the family Rutaceae, and is native to Asia. The plant is also sometimes called sweet neem, though M. koenigii is in a different family to neem, Azadirachta indica, which is in the related family Meliaceae.
Thank you, Uninformed viewers are probably assuming curry leaves can be ground up and used in place of all the typical curry spices, when curry leaves are an entirely different food and flavor. I get them either fresh or frozen, at my local mom-and-pop Indian grocery.
The quail curry looked extremely undercooked and unappetizing. It seemed cold and there was no steam wafting from it of it was supposed to be right off the stove. And curry powder!!!!!!! you make it from scratch.
not to mention the chef is overly emphasizing how he did a great job with it... he was like 'come on, say it's the most life changing dish ever😏' .. that's why he keeps repeatedly over insinuating
See we always should serve food accordingly to there palate and not ours.... I totally agree with you about the curry Chef cooked, but at the end see whom he was serving this too
@@Sritejajeedigunta are you saying me we have powder where all the spices are mixed ...and it's called a curry powder...cse I have never had any thing called curry powder
@@mwomow1991 hey, yes , we do have in india. it's called masala curry powder. I wish I could show you a picture, im holding it in my hand right now. Just Google it - kitchen king curry powder , and there are numerous other brands too like MDH, Everest etc who sell curry powder.
@@Sritejajeedigunta lol, WTF..its Its Masala powder ,Dumbass.. Not CURRY POWDER..Both are different.Curry powder is more similar like MAGGI MASALA POWDER not same as MASALA POWDER for Flavour enhancing. Both are Different.
The Ghurkhas have excellent taste from the looks of that curry and Prince Harry has excellent taste to recognize their good taste and thoroughly enjoy it So, they all have good taste, ok? You probably do, too.
I find it fascinating the improtance that tomatoes acquired in a large part of the world's cuisine (except the Far East, of course), considering for how short a time we've had them as part of cooking.
@@rosesweetcharlotte Yes, agreed, extremely versatile and also cheap. And delicious. I mean, I could eat a whole bowl of cherry tomatoes with salt, pepper and olive oil alone.
As far as indian cuisine is concerned that's lazy cooking. The tartness and colour provided by tomato were produced by a combination of different spices and herbs & flowers. For example rogan josh, a common kashmiri dish served all over the world, is now almost everywhere cooked with tomatoes but originally a particular flower indigenous to the valley was used to colour the dish. So if we are talking about authenticity there are very few actual dishes with tomato and those dishes themselves have a continental flavour like shorba etc.
Me too. I don't know why, but I've been addicted to this channel. It's about the only thing that gets my mind off the fact that I'm going through a divorce that I don't want. It's strange what peaks our interests at different times in our lives, isn't it? I'm not even british, I'm an American, but I LOVE these documentaries right now on the royal family.
Mystic MaMa_369 I’m becoming addicted to it too! Glad it’s helping you through. There are so many interesting things in this world! Hope you are feeling better each day. 👍
A interesting cooking program mixed with some royal history. Enjoyed it. Liked the explanations of flavors and spices and the role of Victoria's Indian chefs in popularizing the food.. Almost ruined by all the organized trolls here slandering the two chefs, and bitching about the Raj which ended almost 75 years ago. Ignore them and love the food instead.
Ummm....no. No, let's call it "Why The Wine Cellar Is Always Empty". These chefs must be drunk! This is pure garbage! No wonder all Royals are "stick thin"! No one is actually eating any of this! It's just a way to "keep the cooking staff busy".
I Have Made some of These Recipes and My Dinner Guests Were Amazed+ Thrilled+ Delighted!!! Everyone { I DO MEAN 'EVERY-ONE'} Couldn't Commensurate Enough on Their Pleasure of This MEAL!!![ only 5 courses though] {YOU HAVE 21 NEW 'FANS'} THANK-YOU FOR YOUR 'PODCASTS'!!!! SINCERELY, CJ T.
Postscript: I love the way you PRESENT all of your 'programs'! Beautifully Done! {I am American, and THIS 'IS' A GIFT FROM BRITAIN!!! THANKS AGAIN!!! CJT💞👍👋}🙋
I love how he prefers WATER to stock (esp box stock!!!). I'm 100 on page with that...just let the pan deglaze if nec or loosen things. Did it this way myself w/ homegrown cabbage, onions, tomatoes. That was it except for oil & salt...perfect!!! ...obvz pre-covid...serving w/ his RAW HANDS and sharing from the same plate!!!
Thank you for this lovely program. The sparkling white table linen's on the spectacular kitchen table are beautiful. Greetings from a fan in San Francisco.
He seems very nervous in this episode unlike the others, but that is understandable when you consider how controversial this episode is compared to the others.
I know they have to put on a show and have to narrate more while cooking while being filmed, but everything is LOVELY and WONDERFUL for this Chef. I wonder if he has this high spirit all the time. LOVELY morning. Wonderful tooth brush. Rich flavoured tooth paste. LOVELY commode.
That Bangladeshi guy got a Michelin star and a special mention from the 'queen'!!and that too for indian 'curry'(whatever that means)....o Thanos,where art thou?!
Not to be a reverse-snob or anything. On the contrary, I love people flirting with cuisines and creating their new renditions. However, If your curry hasn't cooked long enough to separate the oil from the gravy. It isn't really curry.
90 percent of the comments are just salty people that can’t read at the fact that this is a British variation of Curry, no need to get salty cause litterally all around the world has its own Variation of Curry, so Shut up boomers. 10 percent of the comments are the fact that they didn’t mention MRS CROCOMBE
As for how the chef served up the quail curry, well, definitely not how Queen Victoria. or any other royalty anywhere in India would ever be served......he served it up like how it would be done in a peasant's hut, with a cast-iron kadai, and a tin (pewter?) plate. cast-iron is only used for cooking here, not to eat out-off. People of any means in India, never eat off cast-iron or tin.....the least they'd prefer would be a freshly cut banana leaf...most commonly, now they use stainless steel. But if are from the upper middle to upper class in India, you would use brass, or silver. If you are a Westernized Indian, you would use porcelain. But never cast-iron..ick!
@@TheLoyalOfficer Yes when the shell opens it means it is cooked. The shells should close when you wash them, then open once you cook them and they are done.
TheLoyalOfficer once they are open cook for about 4 /5 mins ....if you are cooking anything else with them ...onion...herbs tomatoes cook them first then add the mussels and once open cook for 4/5 mins easy peasy....oh and garlic and a glug of wine if you have it ....xxxx
Anyone else think this is kinda racist? “Queen Victoria elevates curry to the prestige of royalty!!” Yeah like Indian royals never ate curry in their own cultural extravagance.
It's not racist (which by the way is a word invented by Jewish communists). Every culture says these types of things "we make the best" "we are the best" ect. That is how countries work. Trust me when I tell you, Indians are some of the most foreigner hating people I've met. They'd understand. Maybe you would as well if you'd stop browsing reddit, Instagram and experimenting with snapchat filters.
Data Data Data so your points are 1. Jewish people invented the word racism, therefore I am wrong. 2. Every society inherently assumes itself to be better and therefore that’s not a bad thing. 3. Indian culture promotes xenophobia, therefore we should return the gesture, even though they were subjected to imperialism at the hands of Victorian England and this is likely why they culturally developed that. 4. You have assumed me to be shallow, trivial, and unintelligent probably because of my appearance, and therefore I shouldn’t be taken seriously. Those are your arguments. That is all.
Jake Sylph my guess is they were trying to say because of Queen Victoria’s influence curry was elevated in higher levels of society outside of India. Because you can’t deny she didn’t have a huge influence on things. However the way it’s said does come across a bit patronizing
Indian Bengali style mutton curry with aloo/potato is also very decadent. No offense but since when seafoods are so popular in India. Are we talking about Thai or Indonesian cuisines?🤔
6:28 you add water because water is so important in food? Like sure I'll make a cake and add water to the chocolate frosting because water is so important in cooking
It’s not very authentic. Indians never use curry powder or fruit in a curry. The word for gravy is RASA not curry. The food from a Bangladeshi restaurant is not Indian. It’s 2 different countries, and the food is different. You wouldn’t call French cuisine British, would you?!
I cannot really imagine how a person could not like Indian food, one of the best cuisines in the world. (I'm no Indian myself)
Eww.
@Johney Smith well your people are known for not having the best eyesight so it's understandable as to why you say stupid shit about something you can't see
@Johney Smith Food has to look at least like a dog or cat, I totally understand.
I have to admit that I have only been to an Authentic Indian restaurant twice and fast food Indian several times. I grew up in mid-size cities in the US and there just aren't many choices when it comes to international cuisine. Though I love, cilantro (because I spent half of my life near the border of Mexico), I really don't care for the spices and flavor combinations of Indian food. There really isn't many foods I don't like. Maybe I've just never found the right dishes.
@Johney Smith we live in 2020. If you think eating everything that moves is smart, you're stupid. _COUGH_ covid 19 _COUGH_ Ebola and lots of others
oh and animals have existed long before us humans so like that statement does not make sense by any means :)
Curry Powder? Indian chefs are spitting nails at the thought of it. Queen Victoria's Indian servants used the proper fresh spices to make the daily curry for the Queen's lunch, not curry powder!
You Brits knew nothing about spices before coming to India. Your dishes are all trash.
@@escee6280 my dude please don’t insult other cultures
Greg Paul: Not to mention, as well, that the word "curry" was invented by the British, who couldn't even pronounce the real, proper Indian word for combinatiins of spices, and were such arrogant colonialists, that they didn't care. And "curries" vary so widely, from place to place, town town, city to city, in this vast country named after the Indus River. "Curry" doesn't exist.
@@starorcarina8525 if they insult then they won't be spared. Because British trash dishes start with fried eggs or puddings and ends with red meat with a topping of mashed potato. What a horrible food habit 😆😁😆😆😆
@@gamersplatform1574 you can lick their boots but I won't.
Mrs Crocombe was spot on with that Christmas pudding recipe!
Yes and I try it, it is very good!
Where can I find it?
I love that they're doing this in Mrs Crocombe's kitchen. I keep expecting her to walk through though 😅. Good to see Dr Annie again as well!
@@sharonmolander9723 should be English heritage channel, though I think they've done plum pudding/Christmas pudding a few times
Kind of a bittersweet experience for me for obvious reasons. On one hand, I have absolutely no regard for the British crown and its association with the East India Company, but then I love England and its culture, I am as much a proud Indian as I am a Manchester United supporter, and british rock n roll get me through my daily routine. All my favorite comedies are British as well.
It’s all done In the name of the crown but the monarch had no political power. Decisions were made by prime ministers and leading military ppl. Conquering India was never on the royal agenda, but it was on the govt’s
@@Patrick3183 couldnt be further from the truth. Like there coffers didnt get lined from the blood money.
It is a tough one isn't it but the number of TCK's is increasing in the world till all will be well! I myself do not give a hoot about football except in world cups finals then my genes speak to me!LOLOL England seems to honor in many ways Indian culture, you are lucky! the whole world actually! Isn't the idea to take the best from each culture and leave the bad for them to deal with?😊
Audley End? Isn't that where Mrs. Crocombe works? LOL..
Our Queen of Shade: Mrs Crocombe!
Yes, Audley End, is Mrs. Crocombe's kitchen! ;)
@@Solmaz_S I'm from USA, This video is from England, so, I don't know why.
@@Solmaz_S Audley End is built on the royal processional route, ie a big circuit of fancy aristocrats that the royal family would visit and stay with every year.
The producers should have had Ms. Crocombe walk out to inspect his curry! Lol
It's clear the British don't know anything about the curry, basically a curry means nothing in india, because there are at least a thousand varities of curry in India.
Yes! My family is obsessed with Indian food and my sister married into an Indian family. When I hear “curry,” I’m like... what kind!?
That's because "curry" wasn't even an Indian concept, it was a British one. Indian spice traders would mix everything together and market it to Brits that way. In other words, Indians didn't invent curry, Brits did. So yeah, they do know something about it.
@@elbruces Indian spice traders never went to Britain, Britain was never a good enough market. And yeah right, the Brits invented everything 😂🤣
@@elbruces you are right. The word curry itself is British. There was no word like that ever in Tamil. Well maybe, but Tamil was itself never Indian, it’s a British language. Yeah so Indians borrowed curry from Brits. Thank God they left atleast that behind when they practically looted everything else. Oh wait, the word loot is Indian. No, that’s Anglo Indian. For the right reasons.
@@ambarishdebgupta7762
The British/Indian spice trade was definitely a thing. So much so that Brits got into Indian spice mixes in a big way. I'm not saying they "invented" the spices. Just that the combination we call "curry" is a British thing, not an Indian thing. See all the other posts pointing out that "curry" isn't an Indian concept.
Well it had to come from somewhere... Calling it "a mishmash of Indian-sourced spices in your food" isn't as catchy.
he asked him to grate the apple, he just peeled it
There's more flavor in the skin. I was more confused why he peeled it then just stood there.
He couldn’t even stir the pot right. 🤣
My pop made the pudding in Guyana South America its not original from England we did because of the dried fruit and we put rum eventually it became the famous black cake that was colored with burnt sugar. The fruits were soaked for a year in earth jars cheap wine was also added.
No blood in the dish there is an art in grating fingers get nicked don’t if you haven’t the foggiest
I think he cut himself
"They elevated the curry", 😂 so Pretentious like their name .
yup. deplorable. the british STILL cannot talk honestly about colonialism and how we their colonies enriched and elevated THEM and THEIR lifestyles.
true!
They DID say it WAS "BRITISH CURRY!" and HE was proud of it!
Well the Indian restaurants in London that invented Chicken Tikka Masada say that it is not an Indian dish, because they developed it to British tastes, such as liking lots of sauce.
@@howler9503 there is nothing wrong in being proud of their heritage but calling themselves 'Great Britain' and thinking they elevated curries is a bit pretentious
Indian curry in India tastes better
I love how passionate about his work that young chef is( Paul), one can see he really feels and enjoy the preparation of those dishes
Onion Bhaji is might be from Indian state Maharashtra we are having it for ages. The variety of onion bhaji "Khekda kanda bhaji" translation "crab onion bhaji" (looks like carb) is madly popular in the Western Maharashtra. This is the best street food along with "Vada Pav".
Pyaz ke pakore or bhajji is eaten all across the country,not just maharashtra. Agree about vada pav though..nothing like it!
Piyaz pakora is eaten throughout the country from north to south to east.
Thank you for posting this video, the food looks beautifully made. I was introduced to Indian food when I first moved to NJ in my early 20s. I think my taste buds exploded at my first bite of a curry. I loved it so much I spent an entire year eating Indian food exclusively - breakfast, lunch and dinner - plus the occasional mango lassi. The food is flavorful, sophisticated and comforting, and it always seems to be prepared with a lot of care. I loved it so much I couldn't get enough of it. I was also lucky to live in an area that had several excellent Indian restaurants, and sure took advantage of it! Thank you again Michael Buerk and Chefs Paul Ainsworth and Atul Kochhar for showing us these beautiful dishes.
i bet your sweat and bathroom smelled rank eating exclusively indian
Nice blog post pajeet.
@Giselle Tansey Same. Changed my life when I was introduced to Indian/Pakistani cuisine at 19. It was crazy, all I wanted to eat, everyday and would literally crave it so intensely. It would ruin my day if I missed the lunch special at the local curry house lol
Thank you for appreciating Indian food. Much respect.
Although I'm happy you like our Cusine, no, that is NOT Indian food. You will get yourself shot if you add apple In a curry. Also, no one in India calls it "curry" it's so cringe for us to watch.
bless the first chef for keeping it together after michael said indian is a language lol
I really enjoy these Royal Royalty cooking shows. I learn about food dishes and a bit of history, too. Michael and Paul work well together in making these shows a treat.
The Indians can feed me any day of the week. I absolutely love it all!
I make chicken curry with apples and raisens. I use coconut milk in place of water. It's rather sweet and very rich. Like dinner and dessert!
I love how enthusiastic Chef Paul is, and Michael reminds me of a naughty boy, just waiting for the chef to turn his back on whatever's cooking for just a moment....just long enough to sneak a little taste. Michael really should be given tastes throughout the process, so that we might taste everything vicariously through him.
How many times must a British chef use the word "lovely" when describing food?
He's from Seychelles 😆😆
It's like the working class saying mate or "luv" or Americans saying "awesome". Force of habit.
Comparing to their gastronomy everything different must be lovely
I think he sounds lovely. Don't be such sour pusses. The food looked lovely, the setting was lovely and so was the chef!
All chefs do that. 🤣🤣🥰
“Victoria made curry into a dish fit for Royalty”? What do you think Indian kings ate? Sandwiches?
Tomatoes, potatoes... So interesting that two major components of the dish not only originated in India, but also the Americas. It's so strange to me that the Old World didn't have these New World ingredients since the beginning of their culinary history. They're just so integrated into cultures around the world.
Diversity starts with food! Better start than any other I could imagine. If you can eat together, you can do everything else!
The tomato was introduced to India only during the 16th century, the potato during the 17th - by the Portuguese; who came in contact with them in South America
Potatoes and tomatoes originated in the Americas not India. The reason that "Old World" didn't have these ingredients is because they are "New World" ingredients and could not have been used before 1492 when Columbus "discovered" the "New World"
I'm watching this eating a Costco cheese pizza.
Are u at least stoned?
BAAAHAHAHAA
Costco pizza is pretty dang good tho
@LuisLYGA machine made Costco pizza vs the Queen’s dinner? 😄
@@samm9017 or a chicken bake mmm
I love the way Michael SHUTS HIS BLOODY MOUTH when Chef Paul is speaking upon a topic with which Mike is unfamiliar. Most charming.
I love how michael takes one bite then just tries to stuff his face with the curry, that's how you know it was good
4:28 and actually curry comes from the Indian khaari which means sauce.
🤣🤣
No 😑
I was thinking the same. So much bullshit from the englishmen
My Hindi skills are poor so correct me if I'm wrong. Doesn't khaari mean whole spices? I assume in the old days since only the whole ones were used, that's where the name came from.
@@soumiguha9306 What you mean is called Khada Masala (whole spice) whereas "Kharaa" means pure like Kharaa Sona (Pure Gold). Also, Khaaraa means savoury or salty.
Curry or Kari literally means meat in Tamil (Kari Kuzhambu means Meat Curry). Maybe the word "Curry" was derived from there.
Curry comes form Tadkari meaning dish such as Chicken Tadkari or Cauliflower which is a Chicken dish and Cauliflower dish respectively.
It could also have been derived from Curry Leaf “kadi patta”. I’ve always wondered.
Not only food and the dinning room are inspired by India, but The Queen had paintings done of the Indians that her people would talk about so she would know what they looked like. Miniature Indian buildings were made from paper with every detail so she could she how beautiful the buildings were in India. You can see them at Osborn house
Isnt Imperialism beautiful *eyeroll*
The surprising thing is that before Portuguese cane to India the curry was mild and had no chillies or tomatoes or potatoes. The heat was derived from black pepper and cinnamon. I have tasted the true Indian food in a temple in Odisha where they dont use chilies or veggies introduced by foreigners. It's all indigenous veggies
That sounds like it'd be pretty tasty.
So?means exactly squat except it's a xenophobic hole
Similar situation in Korean cuisine... Original style kimchi has no chilies. People still eat it, but the "new" kind is much more popular.
This is a common theme across the food cultures of Europe and Asia. China for example did not know about red chilies (or potatoes and corn, for that matter) until the 16th century, when they were introduced into the land by Portuguese merchants. Most historians agree today that China's population broke the 100 mil barrier in 1600s thanks in part to the high yield of potatoes. We owe a lot of our modern palettes to the native people of Americas.
@@edukid1984 You're welcome, from a native person of the Americas lol
they took Indian food and messed it up
Well, yes. British food was once terrible. Even an Englishman, W. Somerset Maugham, once said "to dine well in England, one must breakfast three times a day."
They took a lot more than food from India 🥴
Even we as Indian's have changed the Chinise cuisine according to our taste bud.... Nothing wrong in that
They did when curry powder got popular
India is an emerging economy because the Raj enforced the English language upon them. Until then, there were so many dialects, they would have never been able to move forward so dramatically as they have.... so that is no small positive.
Prepared curry powder is horrible - I can't believe the cooks for the Royals doesn't make
their own from scratch...
Myra Borisute I’m with you. We at our homes create our own curry spices..that means we eat better than the royals
Actually, I've found that there are some decent curry powders out there. Sharwoods makes a really good one.
John R I’m not talking about the current Queen Elizabeth. I’m talking about the Queen Elizabeth the first. She introduced Indian curries to the British monarchy and it has been a tradition ever since.
@John R Plus, she grew up at a time when even she sort of had to go by whatever could be rationed. Still ate better than most, but the time of extravagant dinners was mostly over
Curry powder was created for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth ll in 1953 to create the Coronation Chicken dish which was served to the foreign dignitaries. It was a British creation using spices brought from India by an employee of the British East India Company. Most British households wouldn’t have had the rare and oftentimes expensive spices used to create the dish, but the curry powder made it more readily accessible . Not all curry powders are equal. Some brands are quite good, or one can create it .
I could eat Indian flavours EVERY DAY forever. Also, right off the bat, what was the host talking about “using curry powder a cheat”? Lol 😆 The chef just let it slide. I guess the host isn’t much of a cook 🤷🏼♀️ Gonna go make this with chicken.
32:20 "Le Raj" ...lmao, you're not a serious restaurant unless you have a french LE in front of your name. XD
France and England are so interwoven and so related in many ways. It's always been amusing/dismaying to me how much the British dislike and dismiss the French. Cultural interactions are amusing... huh... two French root words in that last sentence. It's almost like English is 25% (or slightly more) comes from French.
@@timkirchhof747 they're not "interwoven", the influence is one-way.
My gggGrandfather was born on the Isle of Wight, at Ryde. It fascinates me that Queen Victoria had a residence there. I would love to enjoy the seafood from the Isle of wight alongside a wonderful Indian palate of spices!
Wow , thank you your majesty . Who else could have elevated the “curry” which a billion people were already eating
A billion in 1880? Quote a reliable source instead of today's population figures which mean nothing in Vitoria's day.
John Morrison well given curry was common to almost all ASEAN nations you can come up with that number . Now you can go prove me wrong
Ok so now it’s a billion + England what’s wrong with more curry lovers
What a wonderful documentary! A wonderful blend of British and culinary history. Thank you so much.
This is not all real like how the quail breast was undercooked
Love Indian cuisine that I can get living the the DC area as all the embassies here mean such a variety of food. When it’s made properly or authentically it’s pure bliss.
The curry tree is a tropical to sub-tropical tree in the family Rutaceae, and is native to Asia. The plant is also sometimes called sweet neem, though M. koenigii is in a different family to neem, Azadirachta indica, which is in the related family Meliaceae.
Thank you, Uninformed viewers are probably assuming curry leaves can be ground up and used in place of all the typical curry spices, when curry leaves are an entirely different food and flavor. I get them either fresh or frozen, at my local mom-and-pop Indian grocery.
I adore the Indian chef.. His voice is fabulous..
😂😂 ya he is my cousine
If he says the word "lovely" one more time I will scream. LOL
Ya, he also is Michelin star chef
If you mean paul, he isnt Indian.
@@aishvaryatiwari5414 he is not Indian.
Would love to see the great british baking show with Brian Turner, Anthony Warrel Thompson again
The quail curry looked extremely undercooked and unappetizing. It seemed cold and there was no steam wafting from it of it was supposed to be right off the stove. And curry powder!!!!!!! you make it from scratch.
Don't forget the apple that was added
not to mention the chef is overly emphasizing how he did a great job with it... he was like 'come on, say it's the most life changing dish ever😏' .. that's why he keeps repeatedly over insinuating
@@jprolancing3928 ...and "it's deep"
See we always should serve food accordingly to there palate and not ours.... I totally agree with you about the curry Chef cooked, but at the end see whom he was serving this too
that's exactly when I stopped watching it...these guys seem to have no clue on how to cook Indian dishes.
3:52 There's no such thing as a curry powder...common....bollocks...
Actually there is
@@Sritejajeedigunta are you saying me we have powder where all the spices are mixed ...and it's called a curry powder...cse I have never had any thing called curry powder
@@mwomow1991 hey, yes , we do have in india. it's called masala curry powder. I wish I could show you a picture, im holding it in my hand right now. Just Google it - kitchen king curry powder , and there are numerous other brands too like MDH, Everest etc who sell curry powder.
@@Sritejajeedigunta got it bro....it's the easier version of putting all our indian spices into a dish....lol
@@Sritejajeedigunta lol, WTF..its Its Masala powder ,Dumbass..
Not CURRY POWDER..Both are different.Curry powder is more similar like MAGGI MASALA POWDER not same as MASALA POWDER for Flavour enhancing.
Both are Different.
"Prince Harry's got good taste"???? what about the taste of the Gurkhas who prepared and served him the dish?
What do you expect from a Royal Coksucker 😀
Pity his “good taste” didn’t apply to finding a suitable wife.
The Ghurkhas have excellent taste from the looks of that curry and Prince Harry has excellent taste to recognize their good taste and thoroughly enjoy it
So, they all have good taste, ok? You probably do, too.
Mrs. Crocombe is literally soooo amazing
I find it fascinating the improtance that tomatoes acquired in a large part of the world's cuisine (except the Far East, of course), considering for how short a time we've had them as part of cooking.
They're that good! Cheap, versatile
@@rosesweetcharlotte Yes, agreed, extremely versatile and also cheap. And delicious. I mean, I could eat a whole bowl of cherry tomatoes with salt, pepper and olive oil alone.
As far as indian cuisine is concerned that's lazy cooking. The tartness and colour provided by tomato were produced by a combination of different spices and herbs & flowers. For example rogan josh, a common kashmiri dish served all over the world, is now almost everywhere cooked with tomatoes but originally a particular flower indigenous to the valley was used to colour the dish. So if we are talking about authenticity there are very few actual dishes with tomato and those dishes themselves have a continental flavour like shorba etc.
I have been really enjoying this channel! I hope they don’t stop making content
Me too. I don't know why, but I've been addicted to this channel. It's about the only thing that gets my mind off the fact that I'm going through a divorce that I don't want. It's strange what peaks our interests at different times in our lives, isn't it? I'm not even british, I'm an American, but I LOVE these documentaries right now on the royal family.
Mystic MaMa_369 I’m becoming addicted to it too! Glad it’s helping you through. There are so many interesting things in this world! Hope you are feeling better each day. 👍
@@LordCarolusMagnus good
Chef Paul has this cumplicity with flavours that gets one envy.
A interesting cooking program mixed with some royal history. Enjoyed it. Liked the explanations of flavors and spices and the role of Victoria's Indian chefs in popularizing the food.. Almost ruined by all the organized trolls here slandering the two chefs, and bitching about the Raj which ended almost 75 years ago. Ignore them and love the food instead.
By that standard no one should talk about the Nazis.
@@71espn don’t even go there.
@@71espn well said
That Seabass dish looks amazing
That Sea Bass looks delicious! 😋
Still waiting for the cookbook!!! We could call it “a Royal Kitchen Maid’s Cookbook”
Ummm....no. No, let's call it "Why The Wine Cellar Is Always Empty". These chefs must be drunk! This is pure garbage! No wonder all Royals are "stick thin"! No one is actually eating any of this! It's just a way to "keep the cooking staff busy".
@@amandagarcia6320 what??
More like, the lives I've murdered and stolen culture.
I Have Made some of These Recipes
and My Dinner Guests Were Amazed+ Thrilled+ Delighted!!!
Everyone { I DO MEAN 'EVERY-ONE'}
Couldn't Commensurate Enough on Their Pleasure of This MEAL!!![ only 5 courses though]
{YOU HAVE 21 NEW 'FANS'}
THANK-YOU FOR YOUR 'PODCASTS'!!!! SINCERELY, CJ T.
Postscript: I love the way you PRESENT all of your 'programs'!
Beautifully Done! {I am American, and THIS 'IS' A GIFT FROM BRITAIN!!! THANKS AGAIN!!! CJT💞👍👋}🙋
When he took the seeds out of the chili for his dish my heart broke
Yes.... but perhaps it is best for the pallets not accustomed to the heat, the amateurs.
U don’t serve ultra spicy hot food to a queen
Thank you for uploading! ☺️ I love these series and would like so much to work with you on those documentary! Greetings from Hungary ☺️
Love real Gulash!!!! Any recipes??😇
Using “curry powder” IS cheating!!! Most dishes have a variety of spice combinations based on region and even family.
I love how he prefers WATER to stock (esp box stock!!!). I'm 100 on page with that...just let the pan deglaze if nec or loosen things. Did it this way myself w/ homegrown cabbage, onions, tomatoes. That was it except for oil & salt...perfect!!!
...obvz pre-covid...serving w/ his RAW HANDS and sharing from the same plate!!!
Beautifully made. Hangovers of "colonial upper lip" simmers over though!
This is a wonderful documentary! Thank you so much. Xx
I don't think I've ever met anyone who didn't like garlic. I wonder how that would alter the taste of some of my favorite foods.
Wow this looks delicious! I cant wait to see what you make next
I'm not a big fan of Indian food. i've had it twice. still trying. I'm happy that one chef took out the chili seeds.
There’s such a wide variety in Indian food- I’m sure you’ll find something you like!
@@aleatoirefrancais like i said i'm still trying. would like to try a curry but not spicey.
Thank you for this lovely program. The sparkling white table linen's on the spectacular kitchen table are beautiful. Greetings from a fan in San Francisco.
I’m from the USA we don’t eat as much India food more Asian & Hispanic but wow this is making me hungry it’s noon lunchtime lol!
Indian food does count as Asian food 😂
When I tried London curry I realized I never really had curry.
Yeah I "get it" now too.
Well if that's the best u had ,you are missing alot
Without india Britain is a beggar
The host, Michael Buerk, is irritatingly dense and awkward. Other than that, a rather lovely program with great chefs.
wow he is really annoying for someone with 0 cooking skills
That's because he is annoyed by the Chef no space between them he is in your face.
But why tf he almost looked like Sir Ian Kellen at certain light lol
Michael should have taken the 'u' out of his surname!
He seems very nervous in this episode unlike the others, but that is understandable when you consider how controversial this episode is compared to the others.
My God everything looked so good. How can we get the Recipes ?
Much Love & Many Blessing's
Maybe you can google them?
@@asakurayoh3909
I'll give it a try..
Thank You
That steamed pudding is my favorite. I agree the suet makes the taste. I used to make it every year. Now I want to revisit it!
The so-called empire looted India's treasures, encouraged caste and starved millions, yet I did enjoy this documentary. The Chiefs were terrific
When a british chef cooking notice how they shower praises on every ingredient😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂💯💯 so funny
and keeps praising themselves or fishing for compliments at every opportunity
This is so fun!! I want to make all the dishes!
Love you Michael! Your enthusiasm in bringing these recipes to light imbues us with the same! Keep up the good work!!
I know they have to put on a show and have to narrate more while cooking while being filmed, but everything is LOVELY and WONDERFUL for this Chef. I wonder if he has this high spirit all the time.
LOVELY morning. Wonderful tooth brush. Rich flavoured tooth paste. LOVELY commode.
Playing it up for the camera
He had me at onions and tomatoes.
I would LOVE to get the actual recipes for these dishes!! Is that possible?
good luck! been looking forever....lol
That Bangladeshi guy got a Michelin star and a special mention from the 'queen'!!and that too for indian 'curry'(whatever that means)....o Thanos,where art thou?!
And he thought pakoras were anglo-indian. So clueless
Even though curry is spicy, I force myself to eat it
Not to be a reverse-snob or anything. On the contrary, I love people flirting with cuisines and creating their new renditions. However, If your curry hasn't cooked long enough to separate the oil from the gravy. It isn't really curry.
I get so excited when I get a new video, these are delightful, thanks!
You just made me order chicken butter and bryani 🤤
90 percent of the comments are just salty people that can’t read at the fact that this is a British variation of Curry, no need to get salty cause litterally all around the world has its own Variation of Curry, so Shut up boomers.
10 percent of the comments are the fact that they didn’t mention MRS CROCOMBE
As for how the chef served up the quail curry, well, definitely not how Queen Victoria. or any other royalty anywhere in India would ever be served......he served it up like how it would be done in a peasant's hut, with a cast-iron kadai, and a tin (pewter?) plate.
cast-iron is only used for cooking here, not to eat out-off.
People of any means in India, never eat off cast-iron or tin.....the least they'd prefer would be a freshly cut banana leaf...most commonly, now they use stainless steel.
But if are from the upper middle to upper class in India, you would use brass, or silver.
If you are a Westernized Indian, you would use porcelain.
But never cast-iron..ick!
We indians cook tomato for a long time so that it gets completely dissolved in oil.
How do you know if the mussels are done? Just that they open up? Is that all you need to know?
TheLoyalOfficer if they don’t open that means they are dead so throw that one out ,if one doesn’t close while you wash them then throw that one out
@@kathleenbuxton6944 Yes but how do you know they are done? Is it just opening up?
@@TheLoyalOfficer Yes when the shell opens it means it is cooked. The shells should close when you wash them, then open once you cook them and they are done.
TheLoyalOfficer once they are open cook for about 4 /5 mins ....if you are cooking anything else with them ...onion...herbs tomatoes cook them first then add the mussels and once open cook for 4/5 mins easy peasy....oh and garlic and a glug of wine if you have it ....xxxx
Cooking mussels 4-5 mins after opening=overdone rubber
British royal family eat lavishly when there was famine in India. These famines are engineered by British royal family and Churchill
The look the host gives to the food at 10:17. This is the look of a man who has been starving during the entire take.
So many comments narcissistic. Evidently many feel they are center of universe in matters culinary...
I agree. It is always easy to criticize another person’s culinary skills than to actually cook the meals presented in these videos.
"dont drown it in water" -pours an ocean on it-
Can some one please educate me on the origins of American Fruitcake. Is it a descendent of the English plum pudding?? Curious to know.
Amazing…royals eating peasant food! That s right…
Anyone else think this is kinda racist? “Queen Victoria elevates curry to the prestige of royalty!!” Yeah like Indian royals never ate curry in their own cultural extravagance.
It's not racist (which by the way is a word invented by Jewish communists). Every culture says these types of things "we make the best" "we are the best" ect. That is how countries work. Trust me when I tell you, Indians are some of the most foreigner hating people I've met. They'd understand. Maybe you would as well if you'd stop browsing reddit, Instagram and experimenting with snapchat filters.
Data Data Data so your points are 1. Jewish people invented the word racism, therefore I am wrong. 2. Every society inherently assumes itself to be better and therefore that’s not a bad thing. 3. Indian culture promotes xenophobia, therefore we should return the gesture, even though they were subjected to imperialism at the hands of Victorian England and this is likely why they culturally developed that. 4. You have assumed me to be shallow, trivial, and unintelligent probably because of my appearance, and therefore I shouldn’t be taken seriously. Those are your arguments. That is all.
Jake Sylph my guess is they were trying to say because of Queen Victoria’s influence curry was elevated in higher levels of society outside of India. Because you can’t deny she didn’t have a huge influence on things. However the way it’s said does come across a bit patronizing
@@Harpysylph yes
@@Harpysylph I mean 1.
Didn't read anything after that.
Go and eat at Veraswami resturant in London! Fabulous
I’m adopting that green apple in everything I slow-cook from now on. Thank you. :)
Indian Bengali style mutton curry with aloo/potato is also very decadent. No offense but since when seafoods are so popular in India. Are we talking about Thai or Indonesian cuisines?🤔
6:28 you add water because water is so important in food? Like sure I'll make a cake and add water to the chocolate frosting because water is so important in cooking
So, water is important in Indian cooking, he not adding water for nothing.
OOOMMMGGG THIS WAS DDDOOOPPPEEE!!! I DON'T LIKE INDIAN FOOD MUCH BUT THEY WAY THEY DID THESE I'M DEFINITELY GONNA DO THESE RECIPES OMG MMM MMM MMM
Do not the meat is not cooked through
When he knows the chef will be using curry powder instead..... hahahahaha
yeah the chef is so clueless lol
I would be scared to eat those chicken breast he cooked like shrimp. No sir.
i also would be scared to eat any food from this guy, he is spitting out over food all the time
British food is like white sand 😂
Id love to try the quail curry dish..only i will use chicken instead since quail isnt much for eating in my country nowadays😥
4:31 Kari is a Tamil word that may have no relation to the English word Curry which already meant cook (as in 'currying favour').
It’s not very authentic. Indians never use curry powder or fruit in a curry. The word for gravy is RASA not curry. The food from a Bangladeshi restaurant is not Indian. It’s 2 different countries, and the food is different. You wouldn’t call French cuisine British, would you?!
Truly amazing getting a fella called Mike Berk to host this one.
you should have put "curry" in the title -- there is more to food than curry!