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I came upon this story form Laura Davies at the South Wales Evening News and couldn’t resist putting it here - the ultimate in curry - a White Chocolate Chicken Curry. Im going to have to visit ….
Anybody for hot chocolate? A Llanelli restaurant is offering the ultimate sin for any chocoholic - a chocolate curry.The invention of two brothers, who thought they would use their culinary skills to experiment with the much-loved ingredient, has become one of the best signature dishes at Moods Indian Cuisine on Station Road.
Dubbed the Indian alternative to the battered Mars bar, co-owner Mohammed Ahmed said the dish had become a talking point at the restaurant which opened six months ago.
He said: “We wanted to do something different. Chocolate is used in lots of cooking. In Mexico they use it in hot dishes, and, of course, you have the battered Mars bar so we thought we would experiment with it ourselves.”
The dish, chicken cooked with white chocolate and vanilla essence, is much like a Chicken korma - a mild Indian dish.
For 33-year-old Mohammad, and his brother Abdul Mumen, aged 25, it took a while to get the right type of chocolate to make the perfect dish.
Mohammad said: “We used various types of chocolate. We tried dark chocolate but the colouring was not right. We decided on white chocolate because it is milkier and has a better colour and texture. Abdul came up with the idea of vanilla and it just worked.”
The dish was originally on the restaurant’s takeaway menu as a request dish, but as word of mouth started to grow and the dish started to become more popular, it was put on the main menu, along with other signature dishes such as Bengal duck stir fry.
Mohammed said: “My father was in the trade for 37 years and he had never heard of a chocolate curry. It took a good few months to come up with the idea, and then we tried it out on our family and friends who were quite surprised by it. People have been coming from quite a distance to try our chocolate curry, including Carmarthenshire, Swansea and Neath. When people hear about it, they want to try it. It is different, which is what we set out to do. We wanted to break away from the old traditional image of Indian cooking and stand out from other restaurants. I did wonder what response we would have, but to date it has been very good. I feel very proud that we are the first in the area to have this dish. People are very curious about it and therefore want to try it.”
And the dish is especially popular with children.
Adbul said: “As soon as they see chocolate on the menu, they want it. It is nice to see the children eating curry rather than eating nuggets and chips.”
