Curry leaves is to Indian cuisine what garlic is to Italian cooking or butter is to french cuisine. They are also treated as shabbily these days, discarded from the plates like an unwelcome pest. Next time try and consume it. Its’ benefits are varied.
An Indian meal preparation with out curry leaves is unimaginable. Its health benefits vary from good eyesight, hair, skin, digestion, immunity and much more. Why then, you surely must have wondered, are they discarded from the plates as a nuisance?
South Indian cuisine, is incomplete without the flavour of curry leaves sputtered in smoking oil. Curry leaves’ use can be traced back to 4th century literature. It’s perhaps one of the oldest known flavouring herb known to us. It’s use pre-dates the usage of modern day garnishing with fresh herbs. Its flavour, it so happens, is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The various medicinal benefits discovered by generations past is substantial and significant.