Ground asafoetida

Wannabe Deise

hi
Anyone know where i could get this in Dublin? I tried 2 of the Asian stores in town and no joy. I have a few recipes that include it.
Cheers!
Dara

Blub2k4

Wannabe Deise wrote:

hi
Anyone know where i could get this in Dublin? I tried 2 of the Asian stores in town and no joy. I have a few recipes that include it.
Cheers!
Dara

The Asian Market on Mary St. should have it, try asking them for hingh.

Madinah on Moore St, should also have it.
I'd be surprised if you didn't find it in either of them.

AdrianR

Anyone know where i could get this in Dublin? I tried 2 of the Asian stores in town and no joy. I have a few recipes that include it.

I put it in a recipe once that called for it, it was bloody horrible. The pack I bought (While living in Ingerland) never saw the light of day again.

Just looked it up, This will explain why my curry tasted like $hit (Literally) LOL:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asafoetida

Alun

It does stink something terrible, that's true, but in fairness you only use tiny amounts of it, a 'pinch' or so. I seem to remember some daal recipes I have use it when you're frying spices in oil to chuck into the daal mixture. Can't say it made my daal taste like sh!t TBH.

Blub2k4

If you use too much it destroys a meal.

The only purpose of hingh is to stop you farting from all the veggies, you can just as easily do without it, it isn't a seasoning.

The Hill Billy

Blub2k4 wrote:

The only purpose of hingh is to stop you farting from all the veggies.

Mrs Billy will be delighted to hear that.
She'll be getting me to put it in all my curries from now on.

frobisher

I bought a packet from one of the Indian/Pakistani food shops up near Camden lock at the top of Wexford St. Use sparingly!

Wannabe Deise

hi
thanks for input. I found it in "Down to Earth" on George's street. Small packet for 6 odd euro.
Cheers
Wannabe