Vindalho (English: Vindaloo, also vindalu) is a popular, very spicy Indian dish.
At the intensive-aromatic and pungent taste is hard to beat South Indian dish.
It originated in Goa, the smallest Bundestsaat today's India, which until the 1960s, was under Portuguese colonial administration, while the corresponding number of residents known Christianity. The Portuguese brought with namely a typical preparation method for pork: marinating in wine, garlic and spices, in Portuguese em carne de Vinha alhos.
The Indian name changed from "Vinha de alhos" to "Vindaloo"
Instead of pork will be in India even chicken or lamb (with Hindus and Muslims) and as spices today ginger, chili peppers, cumin, peppercorns, cardamom, cloves, allspice, tamarind, cinnamon, mustard seeds, fenugreek, coriander, turmeric - if not a ready-vindaloo curry paste.
The Court enjoys some popularity in the UK and is on the menus of many Indian restaurants. In colloquial English it is "Vindy" as described. Is served with chicken or lamb, sometimes mixed with potatoes. In the traditional vindaloo potatoes are not included, it is this is a misconception, since alu (anglicized aloo), the Hindi word for potato.
The popularity of the dish has inspired an English song for the World Cup 1998 (Vindaloo by Fat Les, No. 2 in the British charts in 1998).
