Goa Sausage Curry Recipe

This simple, hot, and tangy curry is delicious. For me, it brings back happy memories of childhood family holidays to goa. We would often eat this curry at roadside stalls or beach shacks. It is so easy to make and tastes great with plain boiled rice. Goan sausage or goan chorizo reflects the mix of indian and portuguese cuisine from goa, daman, and diu, which once were part of the portuguese state of india. This sausage is made with pork, vinegar, garlic, hot chili peppers, and spices like turmeric, cumin, ginger, cinnamon, which makes it extremely spicy. Some believe that the portuguese chose to land in goa because the locals there ate pork, as opposed to the kerala coast where the largely muslim population shunned it. The portuguese sailed with barrels full of pork, garlic, and vinegar. The vinegar slowed the rate of spoilage of the meat and the garlic was full of nutrients. So, while other navies ran out of food or were felled by disease, the portuguese made it around the cape of good hope and arrived in cochin and goa.