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Super interesting, thank you!
by mitraraman 8y ago
Super interesting, thank you!
- keithpeter 8y agoUK, Birmingham, within a stone's throw of the Balti triangle... Also East End foods and Natco as bulk cheap national brands for various pulses. The local (predominantly UK born Pakistani/Lahore oriented) shops stock Laziza prepared masalas for various meals (chana, chicken, fish &c) and the fearsome mixed pickles. I find the prepared masalas very salty. 25Kg sacks of rice and 10Kg sacks of attar as well :-)
- Symbiote 8y agoI used to use these sauces a lot, as a student in the UK and for a few years after. There's a scale: 1. Prepare everything from scratch. For anything that isn't fairly simple, this is reserved for special occasions. 2. Use pre-prepared sauces like Patak's (there are also cheaper ones) This still feels like "cooking", and scales up nicely to multiple hungry students without costing much more. 3. Microwave a chilled ready-meal [2] There's a big price range for this, say £1-6 per portion. The cheap ones aren't very nice, and the expensive ones were too expensive as students, but were fine if I felt lazy once I had a job. 4. Order take-away. I couldn't afford this. 5. Pour boiling water over instant noodles. No-one admits to doing this sober. [2] https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/chilled-/meals-for-one#langId=44&storeId=10151&catalogId=10123&categoryId=267480&parent_category_rn=267397&top_category=267397&pageSize=36&orderBy=FAVOURITES_ONLY%7CSEQUENCING%7CTOP_SELLERS&searchTerm=&beginIndex=0&facet=&facet=4294965042 https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/chilled-/meal... [N] There are suppliers in the USA: https://www.pataksusa.com/find-pataks https://www.pataksusa.com/find-pataks