Looks good. Curious if pickles were a personal touch or a common ingredient/item in indian cuisine?
Commonly eaten with food, but read below!
I'm curious about the pickle too. Do you mean a south Asian pickle, or a European style pickled cucumber(etc)?
Looks great, by the way!
Pickle in American English means a pickled cucumber, but outside the USA it also means anything that has been pickled.
The pickle here is the red color pickled daikon! Here "a jar oof pickles" doesn't even have to contain cucumber, just a mustard based relish is meant.
I don't see a pickle in that dish. I'm not familiar with curry so maybe I'm just not seeing the pickle.
Pickled vegetables and roots are commonly served in/on/and with dishes in India, but remember, India is a huge country with strong independant cultures and variants so things change region to region.
My favourite is lime pickles, but it is too pungeant for The Fabulous One so I don't indulge as often as I would like.
With really spicy curries, I love to add Japanese pickles, the sweet tang and crunch is a wonderful offset while eating!
That is what you see here, it is a Japanese style pickled Daikon, or giant radish, the pink/red colored bits!
If you see enough of my cook posts, you will notice I refuse to be shackled by tradition, I go with what I find delicious, I have no time for food pedantry, life is too short!
Oh, and sometimes what I try doesn't work, so there is that:biggrin1: