I haven’t tried making butter chicken in the slow cooker yet, but my suggestion would be to prepare/marinate the chicken as directed, prepare the sauce as directed (without adding the cream, garam masala, and fenugreek leaves) and add both to the slow cooker (let the chicken cook complete...
By chance, English lime (or linden) has yet another meaning, referring to the trees of genus Tilia (Malvaceae). Cf. for example the half-line lind wið lige the linden (=the wooden shield) against the fire (of the dragon) in the Beowulf poem. That name linden has cognates...
The meaning of this compound is dear to the Greeks, hinting at the high commercial value of pepper. See ajwain for the first element in that name. Chinese hu jiao [胡椒], which literally means wild pepper, is the source of Japanese koshō [胡椒, こしょう] and Korean huchu [후추...
Many Hindi films also play on the sorrow of nostalgia – a feeling that now is not the best time, and the past was richer and better, while the future means that even the present will be lost. Many films have looked back on recent decades to search for meaning there that perha...
Garlic cloves are referred to as Zehen (meaning toes) in German. Flower of A. karataviense (native to Turkestan) The French name Thériaque des pauvres (Theriac of the poor) reflects the medical value of garlic. In the Middle Ages, an expensive and complicated mixture of mostly very ...
In Tamil, the related word ney [நெய்] has the generalized meaning semi-solid fat, paralleling similar constructions for other oilseeds (olive, sesame). Farsi has a related name for coconut, nargil [نارگیل], which lies behind the Persian term nargileh [نا...
The Indian names of black cardamom are usually formed from the name of green cardamom with an epithet meaning black (Hindi, Punjabi and Gujarati kali ilaichi [काली इलायची, ਕਾਲੀ ਇਲੈਚੀ, કાળી ઈલાયચી...
The original meaning seems to have been break, cut off, cf. Greek klan [κλᾶν] break, Lithuanian kalti beat, forge and Latin clades hurt, damage. The characteristic sweet taste of liquorice is also reflected in the Indian names. In Sanskrit, madhu [मधु] means ...
The same meaning is found in the species name of the Jawanese variety of turmeric, C. xanthorrhiza: Ancient Greek xanthe rhiza [ξανθὴ ῥίζα] yellow root. Other names relate turmeric to related rhizomes, adding an epithet yellow, e. g., Chinese huang jiang [黃薑]...
[الريحان] the myrtle; this term is still valid in modern Arabic, but in the Arabic-speaking countries of the Eastern Mediterranean and of Asia, it has changed its meaning to basil, while the denotation myrtle is conserved only in North African Arabic; cf also Maltese ...