80's Curry Accompaniment

[Moanycowbag]

After a discussion with my Mother who has a very selective memory at times, I distinctly remember she would dish up in the early 80's a nondescript orange coloured curry. with plain boiled rice and on the table would be diced tomato and cucumber, desiccated coconut and sliced banana all to sprinkle on top of said curry, was this actually a thing or have I dreamt it up.

No! Definitely a thing! Often Homepride tinned curry sauce. Sometimes sliced apple too as well as the other stuff. FIL still tries to offer this with leftover turkey at Christmas. The banana will forever haunt my dreams.

We had the same with the addition of a bowl of diced red onion with ketchup stirred through.
Nowadays the thought of banana and curry makes me feel a bit sick but at the time I loved it!

That is absolutely classic 80s curry. Mum provided commercial curry to the pub next door, complete with sultanas, and we always had it with sliced banana but we were’t posh enough to have coconut (they did have that at the pub). One variant was boiled egg curry, I can’t remember if it had chicken in it too or not. I can remember it now, orange and hot and sweet. Mmmmmm.

I do this sometimes, particularly good with a chicken curry! My kids love it (they are grown up now). I cant remember where i got it from as we never had curry at home. I also ad mint and coriander to it.

MIL used to serve all sorts of stuff alongside a curry. Including grated (cheddar) cheese.

I always politely declined the cheese.

Thank you all, really thought I had made it all up, ooh yes it could well have been tinned Homepride Sauce, I almost at the point of hankering after a bland curry with banana on it as I seem to remember it was a proper treat dinner.

We had sliced Banana and mashed up boiled egg!

A kashmiri curry Can have bananas and apple etc..... in it. That is very common.

I still have banana with curry!

We definitely had this. Minced beef, fried and then peas and curry power added. Serviced with plain boiled rice. With desiccated coconut to sprinkle on top. We didn’t have banana but my mum doesn’t like them so wouldn’t have them anyway.
sometimes I’m tempted to make it myself just for nostalgia

Oh yes it has raisins in it as well. All swollen up in the mince

I loved banana with curry. Think it cooled it down if too spicy for kids? Might reintroduce it.

My aunt used to put Banana and rasin in her curry was absolutely arevolting thing 😐 mums was a bit better it came from a homepride can with no fruit !

Always sultanas in the homemade curry, that was always made with left over cooked chicken so a bit fibrous in texture! The takeaways around here often offer a curry with banana or pineapple. Guess it's a fruity curry thing..I prefer mine quite hot with a coconut taste these days but also enjoy a sweet sour bite. Peshwari nan has coconut raisins and is sweet, I like it and it reminds me of a dearly departed friend who convinced me to try it back in the day. I adore coronation chicken too which I know isn't actually Indian, same as chicken tikka masala...yum

Not homepride sauce...no no.. real sharwoods curry powder 😉

Just had a flashback to 1970s school dinner curry. Yellow with raisan in it. Known as vomit and rice.

Yes! Usual to serve a curry with a Tupperware "lazy susan" (plastic rotating nibble dish) with tinned pineapple cubes, dessicated coconut, sliced banana, sultanas, pickled silverskin onions (from a jar). I feel I've missed something.

I used to have drained mandarin oranges, banana and flaked almonds with curry way back when.

My mum put sliced apple and raisins in hers. I was rather taken aback when now dh took me out to an Indian restaurant for the first time with his raised in India df.

Mum used the tins of Homepride curry sauce, and would put onion, chicken,
chopped apple, raisins and dried apricots into it and serve it with really sticky overboiled rice.

She often did this with leftover roast chicken so Monday was curry night.

I forgot about the apple!

Yes, we used to have this in the 70s, called Kashmir curry. Sultanas in the sauce always. Served with small dishes of things like chopped cucumber with mint, sliced bananas, sliced tomatoes, flaked almonds, plain yoghurt sprinkled with spices.

Madhur Jaffrey had a hugely popular TV series introducing Indian dishes, which was almost compulsory viewing at the time.

I used to love it, I might make it all for old time's sake!

Anyone else's memory jogged by the 1970's Vesta curry?

Oh yes! Served with mashed potato as well as rice to make it go further between us.

My mum used to make chicken curry in the eighties with supermarket curry powder and left over roast chicken. It was served with small bowls of cucumber, choppwd up tomatoes, yoghurt, raisins and dessicated coconut

She would also put a couple of teaspoons of tumeric in the rice if she was feeling fancy. We loved "yellow rice".

She would also make "dhal" with red lentils, onions, curry powder and bits of ham hock.