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The celebration-day Bengali fish curry, the one you cook for a Saraswati Puja lunch or a weekend when family are visiting
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The celebration-day Bengali fish curry, the one you cook for a Saraswati Puja lunch or a weekend when family are visiting

Beef (or goat, or prawns) parboils briefly

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A masala paste of shallot, ginger, garlic and red chilli is bloomed in coconut oil with mustard seeds, fenugreek and curry leaves

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Dried black-eyed beans soak briefly to loosen the skins

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A Madras lives or dies by balance

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The Burmese pork curry, the simplest of the country's red-oil-slick curries and the dish that turns up in every household's lunch rotation