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Curry vs Pilaf - What's the difference?

curry | pilaf |

As nouns the difference between curry and pilaf

is that curry is one of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce while pilaf is a dish made by browning grain in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.

As a verb curry

is to cook or season with curry powder.

As a proper noun Curry

is a family name of Irish origin, from Ó Comhraidhe.

curry

English

(wikipedia curry)

Etymology 1

1747 (as currey, first published recipe for the dish in English(Hannah Glasse), Glasse’s , 1747), from (etyl) . Earlier cury found in 1390 cookbook (Forme of Cury) (Forms of Cooking) by court chefs of (Richard II of England).

Noun

(curries)
  • One of a family of dishes originating from South Asian cuisine, flavoured by a spiced sauce.
  • A spiced sauce or relish, especially one flavoured with curry powder.
  • Curry powder
    • Synonyms
    * (dish) Ruby Murray (rhyming slang) * (curry powder) curry powder
    Derived terms
    * curry leaf * curry paste * curry powder * currywurst * give someone curry
    See also
    * piccalilli (Related Indian dishes) * balti * bhaji * bhuna * biryani * chilli * chutney * dhansak * dopiaza * garam masala * herb * jalfresi * karahi * korma * madras * makhani, makhonee * moghlai * naan * pakora * papadum, poppadum * paratha * pasanda * phall * roghan josh * samosa * spice * tandoor * tandoori * tikka masala * vindaloo

    Verb

  • To cook or season with curry powder.

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) currayen, from (etyl) correer 'to prepare', presumably from Vulgar (etyl) conredare, from com- (a form of con- 'together') + some Germanic base verb

    Verb

  • (label) To groom (a horse); to dress or rub down a horse with a curry comb.
  • * (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
    • Your short horse is soon curried .
  • *, chapter=11
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=One day I was out in the barn and he drifted in. I was currying the horse and he set down on the wheelbarrow and begun to ask questions.}}
  • (label) To dress (leather) after it is tanned by beating, rubbing, scraping and colouring.
  • (label) To beat, thrash; to drub.
  • * (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
    • I have seen him curry a fellow's carcass handsomely.
  • * 1663 , (Hudibras) , by , part 1,
    • By setting brother against brother / To claw and curry one another.
  • (label) To try to win or gain (favour) by flattering.
    • Usage notes
    The sense "To win or gain favour" is most frequently used in the phrases "to curry favour (with)" and "to curry [someone's] favour",
    Derived terms
    * curry favor

    Etymology 3

    From , a computer scientist

    Verb

  • (computing) To perform currying upon.

    • Etymology 4

    Possibly derived from currier , a common 16-18th century form of courier, as if to ride post, to post. Possibly influenced by scurry.

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To scurry; to ride or run hastily.
  • *
  • (obsolete) To cover (a distance); (of a projectile) to traverse (its range).
  • * 1608 , George Chapman, The Conspiracie, and Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron 2.245
    • I am not hee that can ... by midnight leape my horse, curry seauen miles.
  • * 1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
    • All these shots shall curry or finish their ranges in times equal to each other.
  • (obsolete) To hurry.
  • * 1676 , Andrew Marvell, Mr. Smirke 34
    • A sermon is soon curryed over.

    References

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    pilaf

    English

    (wikipedia pilaf)

    Alternative forms

    * pilaff, pilau, plov, polao, polao, pulao

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dish made by browning grain in oil and then cooking it with a seasoned broth, to which meat and/or vegetables may be added.

    • References

    * Some have described it as desecration, but tribal chairman Charlie Vaughn dismisses his critics as people who are "eating tofu and pilaf and sitting in Phoenix with their plasma-screen TVs". - The world at a glance: Grand Canyon, Arizona, The Week , Issue 605, page 8. ----