Railway Lamb Curry

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4–6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      1 hr 35

Appears in
Seven Kitchens

By Torie True

Published 2025

  • About

Luxurious dining carriages were adopted from the mid-nineteenth century in India, serving a fusion of British and Indian delights to appeal to their guests. The ‘railway curry’ used mutton (often used to describe goat in India) which I’ve replaced with lamb. It became so popular that all the grandest hotels across India included it on their menus. How it came into existence is a little hazy, but it is thought that it was created for a British officer who visited the onboard kitchen when fee