There are not so many Indian restaurants in Stuttgart, and all of them tend to be more formal, linen tablecloth affairs, even the ones which have a 7 euro workday lunch buffet.
Invited to join Shiva and Chandra for dhal for dinner, I thought, you know, there are some indian dishes that are really quite simple and fast to make, and require really cheap and common ingredients. There are many cheap dining options in Stuttgart, however they tend to be limited to either Doner Kebab/Pizza, fast food from the main train station, and stuff from the bakery like buttered pretzels or fleishkase.
None of these options are particularly fresh or healthy. While doner kebabs are good, I have heard people complain about how hard they are on the digestive system.
What I propose is a shop which sells indian curries and dhals wrapped in chipatis (Indian wheat meal flat breads) burrito style, to be taken to go or eaten there. There would be two basic curries, one spicy, one mild, and one dhal, to which customers would request to be added cauliflower, chickpeas/garbanzo beans, green peas, and potatoes, and they would be rolled into daily made chipatis to make small burritos. Making a batch of curry to feed 100 people would require a few dollars of spices and cooking oil, 50 onions and 50 tomatoes, probably less actually, depending on the size of the burrito.
Immigrants would like the spicy taste notably lacking in European food, Germans would go for the "exotic" cuisine, foodies would appreciate the authentic flavors of India, Schwabians would appreciate the thrift, and the whole thing would be naturally bio, organic, and vegetarian.
What would be really cool is if we could partner with a local bottle maker to have them produce glass containers. So someone comes in orders two burritos, and then they are put into some kind of glass tube, which would be returnable. Or maybe some kind of flexible silicone disk which could wrap around each burrito like a burrito wrap.
Anyway, Indian food dreams.
Invited to join Shiva and Chandra for dhal for dinner, I thought, you know, there are some indian dishes that are really quite simple and fast to make, and require really cheap and common ingredients. There are many cheap dining options in Stuttgart, however they tend to be limited to either Doner Kebab/Pizza, fast food from the main train station, and stuff from the bakery like buttered pretzels or fleishkase.
None of these options are particularly fresh or healthy. While doner kebabs are good, I have heard people complain about how hard they are on the digestive system.
What I propose is a shop which sells indian curries and dhals wrapped in chipatis (Indian wheat meal flat breads) burrito style, to be taken to go or eaten there. There would be two basic curries, one spicy, one mild, and one dhal, to which customers would request to be added cauliflower, chickpeas/garbanzo beans, green peas, and potatoes, and they would be rolled into daily made chipatis to make small burritos. Making a batch of curry to feed 100 people would require a few dollars of spices and cooking oil, 50 onions and 50 tomatoes, probably less actually, depending on the size of the burrito.
Immigrants would like the spicy taste notably lacking in European food, Germans would go for the "exotic" cuisine, foodies would appreciate the authentic flavors of India, Schwabians would appreciate the thrift, and the whole thing would be naturally bio, organic, and vegetarian.
What would be really cool is if we could partner with a local bottle maker to have them produce glass containers. So someone comes in orders two burritos, and then they are put into some kind of glass tube, which would be returnable. Or maybe some kind of flexible silicone disk which could wrap around each burrito like a burrito wrap.
Anyway, Indian food dreams.
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