Indian sweet and sour sauces?

[Ninjai Fanatic]

A good friend of mine has been raving about some Indian sweet and sour dishes that she had while she was in India, but I can't find any recipes of the sort and her not being a 'food fanatic', didn't ask the names of the dishes either.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks very much! :)

[BBhasin]

your friend could be talking about chat papri,bhel puri,raj kachori and the like, even though they might come in the snacks category, as they tend to have sweet spicy and tangy chutneys.

just a wild guess though.

[carswell]

Am sitting with bated breath in anticipation of replies as this is a category of dish I've only just discovered thanks to a fabulous recipe in Atul Kochhar's Indian Essence: tenga, a sweet and sour fish curry from Assam (East India), replete with bamboo shoots, star anise and kaffir lime leaves.

[Milagai]

another possibility is the godju category of dishes

from southern india:

okra or onion/tomato or eggplant are the typical ones.

it ends up with spices + tamarind + jaggery

into a yummy hot-sweet-sour dish.

milagai

[Ninjai Fanatic]

thanks very much for your help. :) tis much appreciated, I'll start from here. thanks

[zimbida]

A good friend of mine has been raving about some Indian sweet and sour dishes that she had while she was in India, but I can't find any recipes of the sort and her not being a 'food fanatic', didn't ask the names of the dishes either.

Can anyone help me please?

Thanks very much! :)

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there's also a category of kashmiri dishes that are sweet and sour. Probably the most common is 'Choek Vangan' or sour eggplant. However, the same basic sauce is used with radish, lotus root, and prehaps my favorite, trout.

Here's a couple links to recipes of this type

http://www.koshursaal.com/recipe/chuk_nadur.html

http://www.koausa.org/Cookbook/100.html