What are the nations favourite curries?
Main course dishes ordered. Statistics from the current Good Curry Guide Chicken Tikka Masala remains the number one ordered dish (16%). Chicken Korma next (8%). Jalfrezi, Karahi dishes, Masala dishes, Rhogan Josh and Tikka/Tandoori dishes are all close behind at around 6%. Balti, Bhuna, Dhansak, and Madras come next at 5% or less. Vindaloo and Phal are below 1%. Here is more detail from the current Good Curry Guide Predictably, chicken remains the most popular ingredient, rising 1% to 66% in 1998 (from 52.5% in 1991 and 60% in 1995). Bad press or no, demand for meat at the curry house is constant at 22%, with lamb accounting for 10%, beef for 9% and venison and mutton nearly 4%. (Pork and veal rarely appear). Fish and prawn has risen, despite high prices due to shortages, to 5% (up 1%) while vegetables account for just 7% (down 1%). According to Gallup (mid-1997), in that year there was a tiny gain of vegetarians to 5.4% of the population. Until then, the national figure for vegetaria
