Top 10 Spicy Facts with Bangla Fusion

5th February 2013

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10. The world’s biggest ever curry was a 13tonne Biryani, including 187lb of chillies and 6600lb of rice. It took 60 chefs to make in New Delhi in June 2008. And required three cranes to move the container and a 3ft high furnace to cook it!

9. We spend more than £250m a year on Indian food in the UK

8. One of the hottest curry dishes ever made is known as a ‘Chicken Naga’, made with a high volume of Naga pepper seeds. On the Scoville Scale, these deadly seeds measure at 855 000, more than 100 times hotter than jalapeño peppers! However, the Bit Spicy 3 Chilli Phall is hotter!

7. The largest naan bread ever made was a whopping 10ft long by a huge 4ft wide - the equivalent of 167 normal sized naan breads. The bread took over five hours to cook and required eight members of staff to carry it in September 2010!

6. The tallest poppadum stack in the world stands at a massive 282 poppadoms. The record was set by a chef from the Jali Indian Restaurant in Blackpool.

5. Tim Stobbs, aged 42 years, currently holds the world record for munching an impressive 15 poppadoms in 5 minutes! The annual World Championships.

4. The Bhut Jolokia Chilli Pepper (also known as the Naga Jolokia), is the hottest pepper in the world, accompanied with its own health warning! This pepper is also known as the ‘Ghost Chilli’ or ‘Ghost Pepper’, and is grown in the Indian states of Assam, Nagaland and Manipur.

3. The ‘Big Jim’, a large chilli hailing from New Mexico, currently holds the world record for the largest chilli ever grown. This plant frequently produces chillies that are over a foot in length, which is hugely impressive considering that the plant itself never grows more than two feet!

2. Chilli is the most popular spice in the world and can help combat heart attacks and strokes and extends blood coagulation times preventing harmful blood clots.

1. Chicken tikka masala is the country's most popular restaurant dish with one in seven curries sold in the UK being chicken tikka masala.

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