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Seven Curry

Seven curry

Festival

⚠ SERVED ON A LOTUS LEAF AND EATEN WITH THE FINGERS, NO CUTLERY. The meal of Guyanese Hindu religious occasions — weddings, prayers, pujas, thanksgivings — in which seven vegetarian curries are laid around rice or dhal puri on a water-lily leaf. ⚠ WHICH SEVEN VARIES: catahar (young jackfruit), bora (long bean), balange/eddo, pumpkin, aloo, channa, dhal, mango, karaila and bhaji all appear, and no fixed list is recorded here as definitive. The vegetarianism is the religious requirement; the leaf is the plate; the fingers are the rule. Found also in Trinidad and the diaspora.

Atlas — where and when

Where in the world

Communities and languages

  • Indo-Guyanese community documented

Languages: Caribbean Hindustani

What is recorded

  • Seven curry is documented as served on a water-lily or lotus leaf and eaten with the fingers at Guyanese Hindu religious occasions, with seven vegetarian curries. The specific seven vary by household and occasion and no fixed list is recorded as definitive. documented

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