Country Captain
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Country Captain is a dish which, in its basic form, is a mild stew made with browned chicken pieces, onions, and curry powder
. Golden raisins and almonds are usually added. Many versions also call for tomatoes, garlic, and bell peppers. The dish is served over white rice.
Country Captain may have originated in India
as a simple poultry or game recipe involving onions and curry
and possibly enjoyed by British officers. One theory is that an early 19th-century British sea captain working in the spice trade introduced it to the American South via the port of Savannah.
The recipe for Country Captain originated in Philadelphia in 1857. The original chef was Alessandro Filippini. Mr. Filippini later won a large sum of money in a series of back-alley dice games, retiring to a former plantation in the South Carolina coastal plains.
The dish was featured on an episode of "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay
" in season 6 guest-starring Matt and Ted Lee. The Lee brothers took victory.
Curry powder
Curry powder is a mixture of spices of widely varying composition based on South Asian cuisine. Curry powder, and the contemporary English use of the word curry are Western inventions and do not reflect any specific Indian food, though a similar mixture of spices used in north India is called...
. Golden raisins and almonds are usually added. Many versions also call for tomatoes, garlic, and bell peppers. The dish is served over white rice.
Country Captain may have originated in India
Indian subcontinent
The Indian subcontinent, also Indian Subcontinent, Indo-Pak Subcontinent or South Asian Subcontinent is a region of the Asian continent on the Indian tectonic plate from the Hindu Kush or Hindu Koh, Himalayas and including the Kuen Lun and Karakoram ranges, forming a land mass which extends...
as a simple poultry or game recipe involving onions and curry
Curry
Curry is a generic description used throughout Western culture to describe a variety of dishes from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Sri Lankan, Thai or other Southeast Asian cuisines...
and possibly enjoyed by British officers. One theory is that an early 19th-century British sea captain working in the spice trade introduced it to the American South via the port of Savannah.
The recipe for Country Captain originated in Philadelphia in 1857. The original chef was Alessandro Filippini. Mr. Filippini later won a large sum of money in a series of back-alley dice games, retiring to a former plantation in the South Carolina coastal plains.
The dish was featured on an episode of "Throwdown! with Bobby Flay
Throwdown! with Bobby Flay
Throwdown! with Bobby Flay is a Food Network television program in which celebrity chef Bobby Flay challenges cooks renowned for a specific dish or type of cooking to a cook-off of their signature dish....
" in season 6 guest-starring Matt and Ted Lee. The Lee brothers took victory.