Blackburn with Darwen's pumping out curry challenge

12:07pm Friday 22nd June 2012 in Blackburn

BLACKBURN with Darwen Council’s Healthy Communities Partnership (HCP) group has linked up with local heart failure charity, Pumping Marvellous.

Representatives of the group and the charity will be outside Blackburn Town Hall tomorrow lunch time, demonstrating their Curry Pot Challenge, where members of the public can taste traditional South Asian food, made without ghee, salt and full fat yoghurt.

Mansoor Akhtar of HCP said: “Ninety per cent of ingredients in a curry are healthy.

“But by cooking it the way we do, it becomes unhealthy.

“Hopefully we can demonstrate in this Curry Pot Challenge, that you can still get a great tasting dish, without it being bad for you.”

Children from Wensley Fold Primary School, St Silas Primary, and Sacred Heart Primary, have designed Olympic-themed ‘healthy heart’ T-shirts.

And the children will be wearing them at the stall tomorrow.

Comments (5)

1:09pm Fri 22 Jun 12

ChairOnMyHead says...

A curry without salt will be bland. In fact anything without salt is bland.
A curry without salt will be bland. In fact anything without salt is bland. ChairOnMyHead

5:30pm Fri 22 Jun 12

JohnR1 says...

I have not used any additional salt in my food for the past 10 years, I can safely say that food purchased in restaurants (not necessarily Indian) is loaded with salt and tastes awful to me now. Additional salt is not required and there are numerous substitutes that enhance flavour without the dangers of salt such as lemon juice, spices and herbs. I eat curries (shop bought) fairly frequently and would say that the salt content is nowhere near as excessive as that found in an English restaurant.
I have not used any additional salt in my food for the past 10 years, I can safely say that food purchased in restaurants (not necessarily Indian) is loaded with salt and tastes awful to me now. Additional salt is not required and there are numerous substitutes that enhance flavour without the dangers of salt such as lemon juice, spices and herbs. I eat curries (shop bought) fairly frequently and would say that the salt content is nowhere near as excessive as that found in an English restaurant. JohnR1

5:33pm Fri 22 Jun 12

darwenTower says...

ChairOnMyHead wrote:
A curry without salt will be bland. In fact anything without salt is bland.
Just eat salt then?
[quote][p][bold]ChairOnMyHead[/bold] wrote: A curry without salt will be bland. In fact anything without salt is bland.[/p][/quote]Just eat salt then? darwenTower

5:37pm Fri 22 Jun 12

darwenTower says...

I'm with JohnR1, I don't always put salt in food and there is no need to put it in a curry with the range of spices and other stuff in there.

People think food is bland when they have been force fed high salt content to the point where when it's absent they think something is missing/wrong. There are other flavours in the world.
I'm with JohnR1, I don't always put salt in food and there is no need to put it in a curry with the range of spices and other stuff in there. People think food is bland when they have been force fed high salt content to the point where when it's absent they think something is missing/wrong. There are other flavours in the world. darwenTower

8:32pm Sat 23 Jun 12

Your ferret stinks says...

darwenTower wrote:
ChairOnMyHead wrote:
A curry without salt will be bland. In fact anything without salt is bland.
Just eat salt then?
LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!
[quote][p][bold]darwenTower[/bold] wrote: [quote][p][bold]ChairOnMyHead[/bold] wrote: A curry without salt will be bland. In fact anything without salt is bland.[/p][/quote]Just eat salt then?[/p][/quote]LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!! Your ferret stinks

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