Indian food and PA

[momtoAidenDeclan]

I know nothing about Indian food except that it's YUMMY!  My boys would like the earthy/spicy flavors....in general is it a "peanut safe" cuisine OR is it to be avoided at all costs, like Chinese food?  Something that we can ask at individual restaurants?
THANKS!

[CMdeux]

Individual restaurants, I think-- because inherently, the cuisine is VERY heavy on cashew, but peanut isn't really traditional, so to speak.

HOWEVER-- there is peanut in a lot of pre-prepared sauces, curries in particular.   It's very high risk, IMO.

We regard Indian cuisine as being every bit as dangerous as Chinese; but then again, DD is cashew-allergic and with a very low threshold.

[hk]

It's my favorite food, but I think it's very risky.  DDs first reaction at age two was to Indian food.  In this instance, pistachios.  Often when I read about allergy fatalities in the UK, it says that the person had eaten takeout Indian food or curry.  I think curry especially is risky for peanut though I think cashews and pistachios are more common in that cuisine.

Probably not the answer you wanted.  I have become shockingly proficient at cooking Indian food at home...

[GoingNuts]

Absolutely off limits. Sorry!

[Macabre]

Off limits unless we make it at home. If you look at the deaths from take out food ("take away") in England over the past three years, you'll see a trend in the type of food they took away.

[momtoAidenDeclan]

Yes, we're ONLY peanuts - eats everything else safely....but thank you for the answers - we'll skip it.
Not sure if I can re-create what we ate....it was SO insanely good.  The basmati rice alone was so perfectly cooked....

[guess]

The key to the curry take away incidents was the tainted almond powder used as an ingredient.  The restaurant owners used what they believed to be almond powder that under testing proved to be cut or substituted with up to 50% peanut powder as a cheap filler.  Therefore to the restaurants knowledge it was not using peanut leading the investigators to the imported almond powder that was by volume or weight nearly half peanut.

Do you know what it was?  Butter chicken, vindaloo, etc.

[Macabre]

There have been a lot of those deaths.

One thing about more authentic places is exactly that--more authentic ingredients (and I'm thinking spices). I don't want a slice that is manufactured in India--or any other country aside from the U.S. and Canada, yk?