Curry Goan Pork Vindaloo

With this recipe, you will love all the different flavours of the spices. There are a lot of them and no spice overpowers the others. It’s like a beautiful medley of spice that is very difficult to beat. What is the history of Goan pork vindaloo? Goa was the birthplace of pork vindaloo curry. In the 15th century, the Portuguese controlled what is now Goa and brought with them their Portuguese recipes and ingredients from the new world – the Americas. The name vindaloo is believed to have come from the Portuguese dish carne de vinho e albos or meat with wine (or vinegar) and garlic. The Goans couldn’t pronounce vinho e albos and ended up calling it vindaloo. The name stuck. One thing the Goans changed when making vinho e albos or vindaloo was that they added a lot of chillies. They loved the spicy chillies which had only recently made their way to the Indian subcontinent via the Portuguese.