Re: [CH] Curry Plants
Brent Thompson (brent@hplbct.hpl.hp.com)
Mon, 08 May 2000 10:10:07 -0700
> The two are different, but you rs is also a culinary herb which will
> impart a curry-like flavour, just a slightly different one to that of the
> curry leaf, which is oval in shape and greener.
Another difference is that no needle-leafed plant is used in Indian food,
as far as I know, whereas "curry leaf" (Murraya koenigii) is actually used
throughout India in food preparations (to a much greater degree in the
South than the North). As far as I can recollect, I have never seen such
an herb mentioned in an Indian cookbook nor ever seen such in any market in
India (but then I only lived in India 4 years and never visited Gujarat,
Andhra Pradesh, nor eastwards of Orissa).
--- Brent