Indian Food Buffet Innovation

Have you ever eaten lunch at an Indian food buffet? If you haven’t, you really should go to one the next time you go out for lunch. They’re amazing.

When you’ve gone a little ways down the buffet line, have you ever discovered something you really like, but you don’t have a good place to put it on your plate?

I have had this problem, so I developed an innovative way to at least sample all the delights of an Indian food buffet. The key is putting basmati rice on your place in two mounds.

buffet white plate with two mounds of basmati rice

This furnishes you with 4 places to put gustatory delights. I apologize for the unappetizing appearance of my thumb in the the photo. I’m wearing a vinyl glove.

buffet white plate with two mounds of basmati rice, rajma and pakora

Above, delicious rajma on the upper right edge of a rice mound, and vegetable pakora between rice islands.

buffet white plate with two mounds of basmati rice, rajma, pakora, mattar mushroom and aloo broccoli

Here, the lower right rice corner has mushroom mattar on it, and the lower left has aloo broccoli. The mushroom mattar and aloo broccoli obscure the vegetable pakora, but I assure you it was very good.

I believe I filled in the upper left corner with chicken curry. Follow my simple two rice mound system, and you’ll always have the right proportion of curry to rice.

I took these pictures at Star of India in Fort Collins, Colorado, a splendid indian food restaurant. If you’re in Fort Collins for lunch or dinner, Star of India is a great place to eat. They have more vegetarian dishes at lunch than dinner, but the have the best malai kofta I’ve ever tasted on the dinner menu. At lunch, the rajma is outstanding. The lunch-time tandoori chicked would be dinner quality at lesser indian places.