Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
by GeneralMaximus on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:12AM
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While everything tastes better with ghee, you can cook a lot of Indian food using plant-based oils. I use sunflower oil for a lot of dishes, but you can also use vegetable oil, olive oil, or mustard oil.
With a bit of effort, you can eliminate animal products from most vegetarian Indian food. It will taste different, but not too much.
Source: I'm Indian.
Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
by bluntfang on Thursday May 07, 2020 @06:38AM
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I don't think anyways arguing that oil isn't a replacement for butter. I think we're curious about the expectation. Can we expect most Indian restaurants or caterers to use oils instead of ghee? Do you need to ask them if they use ghee?
Re:Facebook uses 1.5B Reddit posts to create chatbot
by GeneralMaximus on Thursday May 07, 2020 @07:20AM
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Fancy Indian restaurants in the West as well as back here are almost certainly using ghee. Cheaper places might use vanaspati (a ghee substitute made with palm oil) or oil. In general, though, you can never tell for sure unless you're doing the cooking yourself.
"Ghee is widely used in South Indian cuisine for tempering curries, in preparation of rice dishes and sweets. South Indians have a habit of adding ghee to their rice before eating it with pickles and curries. South Indians are one of the biggest consumers of ghee."