It's February, and hundreds of new products are on their way to store shelves. Among them we find Toro's new Rett i kopen products with a new look – a kind of hybrid between a mug and a bag. A flat cup, if you will.
“Perfect for the trip” says it all on the packaging, and we're inclined to agree. But one variable has food writer and cookbook author Hailey Oder Fallibrook stumped; Toro right in the tandoori cup.
“When I saw the package on a poster on the bus today, I had to Google it and see what was inside,” Valleybrook tells DinSide.
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You don't get any wiser than the ingredients list: Rice, Vegetables (lentils, tomatoes, onions, chopped beans), Skim Milk, Fragrance, Spices (contains garlic), Sugar, Modified Potato Starch, Oil (Sunflower). , rapeseed), salt, glucose syrup, coriander leaves, milk protein, color (paprika extract), acid (citric acid)
– Now I think things have gotten a little out of control for Tohru. (…) How can this be tandoori? Fallibrook writes on Facebook.
Stoser: Helle Oder Vallebrück doesn't understand what Toro has in mind for the new tandoori dish. Photo: private
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She explains in more detail: A tandoor is an oven in which you grill food at very high heat. Marinated meat is preferred.
Tandoori is a technique or method Preparing food where you use the oven, tandoor. How do you call a vegetarian soup tandoori? I just don't get it.
– First of all, it's sad to hear that she's skeptical about the product, but the news refers to the taste, not to the preparation method itself, Christopher Fikibak, communications director at Orkla Foods, tells DinSide.
He explains that in the same way that grilling and barbecuing are both a cooking method and a flavour, the same is true of tandoori.
Toro also has its own tandoori seasoning and Indian tandoori range.
– Check the internet
Vallebrook does not use Toro products, and has not tasted the mixture in question. As a result, she finds it difficult to comment on Toro's overall food experience.
-But based on the packaging, description, and contents of the bag, I have to say I'm confused.
She points out that we have had Indian and Pakistani restaurants in Norway for more than 50 years.
– Norwegians love Indian food, so one would hope and believe that a basic knowledge of Indian food would be there, says Vallebrook.
– I believe: If you have doubt and you are about to launch a new product, consult someone. Check with one of the many Indian restaurants in the country. Go to Greenland and listen to the professionals who are actually from India who use the tandoor. Check the internet. This is the simplest thing. If there had been small pieces of chicken cooked in the tandoor they would have been inside, but I doubt the lentils or rice grains or any of the “vegetables” were near the tandoor. The easiest thing would be to call it an Indian dish in the cup, but maybe it's already in the range?
Toro not only has a separate dish called “Indian”, but there are many Indian dishes in his collection.
– If you go to a grocery store, you will find various tandoori dishes that taste tandoori, says Vikbak.
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