Ball Curry
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The sacred Sunday dinner centerpiece of every Anglo-Indian home: delicately spiced minced beef or mutton meatballs simmered gently in a rich, fragrant coconut curry gravy, traditionally accompanied by yellow coconut rice and devil chutney.
“Sunday afternoon without ball curry and yellow coconut rice is not Sunday at all, men.”
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