Topic: Forget Viagra...Chocolate curry is the way to go apparently

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Glasgow restaurant promises a hot date as it puts chocolate curry on the menu


It is the ultimate hot date: a Glasgow Indian restaurant has put a chocolate curry on the menu.

The dish combines two of the most powerful aphrodisiacs known to man - or woman - curry and chocolate.

Restaurant boss Johnnie Ginda has launched the dish in the run-up to Valentine's Day, but it will remain a firm fixture on the all-year menu.

'If you want your date to be really hot you will not fail with this dish,' he said.

The Nakodari is a medium hot king prawn curry that comes complete with a chocolate and strawberry naan bread and costs ?16.95. An accompanying strawberry pakora is also available at ?4.95.

Mr Ginda, 38, has launched the dishes at his new Nakodar Grill in Glasgow's Dennistoun district.

The Nakodari is named after Mr Ginda's home village in the Punjab area of India where it was perfected by his late grandfather and passed down through the generations.

'Only three people now know of this family recipe - myself, my father Bajen and head chef Minto Singh, and he has it in his contract not to reveal its secrets," said Mr Ginda, whose family has been in Scotland for 35 years.

'We believe we are the first restaurant in Britain that offers chocolate curry. We use dark chocolate with 85 per cent cocoa and it cooks up pretty brown but tastes absolutely delicious. Anybody on a hot date will feel the benefits immediately!

'There are two very distinct flavours - chocolate and the curry - and it tastes brilliant,' Mr Ginda said.

The chocolate is combined with ground coriander seeds, garlic, chilli, ginger and other spices.

Chocolate, the 'food of the gods', contains theobromine, a stimulating alkaloid similar to caffeine. Chocolate also helps the brain produce feel-good serotonin - which is believed to put people in an aroused mood.

Dietician Alex Bow, who has travelled the world investigating the sex properties of various foods, recently placed curry as the number one love food.

'Asian mythology refers to "the carnal spices" which are present in most forms of curry,' he said.

Turmeric's main active ingredient, curcumin, even helps loss of libido.

In a study of 1,000 people, researchers from the National University of Singapore found that curcumin may protect brain cells from age-related changes.

Nutmeg also boosts male sex drive, according to research at Aligarh University in India.

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