Sloppy Bombay Joes

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Aarti and Food Network CEO - I would like to start out by saying I think the show was AWESOME! You made the right choice! The food looked very appetizing and easy to make. I'm sorry but I do have to take a moment to put my two cents in on the previous comments. C'mon people! Give the show a chance! I understand her direction of making everyday, bland american food a bit better with bolder flavor. She doesn't advertise that the ingredients will be readily available in the everyday americans pantry. Part of the fun and experience is to begin stocking your pantry with new and exciting spices and ingredients that I'm sure Aarti will show us how to work into other meals. I also gather that if we pay close attention her use of the spices will also teach us to utilize them in other ways. To me, part of the ride is to go out and gather new things I haven't worked with before and experiment with them at home. I would also like to note that I personally prefer to learn a new cuisine by working it into recipes I'm comfortable with and then expanding into the more difficult technique of Indian cooking. Keep doing what you're doing Aarti! I look forward to learning lots! - Lisa

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REALLY liked this dish - read recipe prior to viewing, sounded good and tried it - great new spices for us, but not too overpowering. Aarti is so articulate and really a pleasure to watch!

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Luckily we had almost all of the ingredients in the pantry/refrigerator to make this dish. Right after watching it, we decided to try it and it was AWESOME! The flavors are complex and amazing. We have been trying to cook with indian spices for a year now and with her show on the air it helps us understand how to do it. By the way, it only took us about a half hour to make it, not an hour, and it only took two pans and a toaster.

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Aarti Sequeira is sweet, pleasant and fun to watch. I am looking forward to trying each ingenious recipe. The colorful nutritious kale and mango salad stood out as a winner. Simplicity of ingredients and ease of preparation won me over. Same with the kulfi. No ice-cream maker needed! Pistachio nuts, Earl Grey tea and cardamom spice sounds like a marriage made in heaven. And the Sloppy Bombay Joe's look tempting with the right amount of spice and flavor. The introduction graphics are a visual delight and the bold red in the kitchen set design is a gorgeous backdrop for Aarti's lovely dark hair, eyes and skin tones. She has a beautiful voice and a delightful laugh. Every time she laughed it sounded so familiar! (I finally figured it out: Julia Ormond in Legends of the Fall. Thank you, Food Network and Aarti Sequeira, for a great new showcase for the spices and flavors of India exotic.

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Aarti, thank you for bringing to the Food Network something different and some FLAVOR!!! My husband and I are in are mid to late 40's and are empty nesters who are finally at a stage in our lives where we can cook dinners for just us and not worry about whether or not the children will like it. To the viewer who commented about the "average American" not being able to afford this dish... well, I condsider myself an average American and these spices are not anymore pricey than cinnamon. In my opinion, the average American today is trying to get by paycheck to paycheck, however, the one thing that we can treat ourselves with is a good homecooked meal! And I, for one, am tired of pasta, chicken, chicken, pasta, hamburger, chicken for my weekly meals! I am so looking forward to learning new flavors to bring to my dinner table and Aarti offers us that! I am so looking forward to making this recipe and so excited to actually LEARN something new from the Food Network! Aarti, thank you for teaching me about spices and what they can do to change up our every day dishes! I will be trying all three of these recipes and can't wait to learn more!

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You did a great job and I can't wait to try another one of your recipes. My husband loves to try new food and I've made several of your recipes already which he enjoyed very much.
I won't miss any of your shows because I am a big fan and was all through the contest.

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I think T's review misses the point. This is a great way to introduce Americans to Indian cooking. Though she calls it Sloppy Joes, its really has more in common with Marsala cooking than it does the American sandwich classic. It would work as well with rice as it does as a bun sandwich. Great job Aarti! Oh, and btw T, talk about snobs; "white-trash lunchtime classic"? Really? How snobbish is that? I'm offended.

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I am so glad Aarti won. they desperately needed a fresh cuisine there's so much latin and american and italian already. don't get me wrong I love all that too. it's just nice to see something new and exciting to me again that I want to make everything she does. I love looking through the Indian shops near me now I can buy some of the spices and use them in her recipes: someone asked about vegetarian substituiton you could use firm tofu or Boca makes crumbles that a re vegetarian and would work well. I personally can not have a lot of dairy so I will be using non dairy creamer instead of half and half. I am so looking forwrd to more of her shows: thanks foode Network for expanding our taste cuisine:

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First off, you people are suppose to be rating the recipe. Yet its nothing but comments about her show.
If this is how her show is going to be, well, very very few people will ever make her food. Some ingredients will be hard to find and her recipes just arent what people are going to rush out and want to make.
Aarti shouldve been put on the Cooking Channel. This show is as bad as those stupid cake design shows that plague this network.
And what's with her fake accent. She turns it on and off through out the show. And my gosh, she seems phony, especially her laugh.

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First let me preface my review of this recipe and this show by saying I was a dedicated viewer of TNFNS. I think all three of the finalists deserved to be there.

So I just watched this new show with my wife. My hope was that the direction for the show was going to go in the direction of most of her dishes on the TNFNS and not towards what she did in her "pilot" (Pizza Indian Style. In short, I would love to have someone demystify real Indian cooking for me and show me why this food should be something I should add to my home repertoire.

So, what were the two possible outcomes for the average food network viewer with this show: a. be disgusted by a recipe that just does not look at all appetizing, or b. trust her, make the dish, and be disgusted. Average america does not want their classics made Indian IMO. I am not talking about food snobs in LA and NYC, I am talking about AVERAGE americans.

This show missed on so many other levels as well. The idea of "girlfriends" coming over was completely fake. Every other show that does this actually has the wrap up of the show with all the friends coming together to eat. Instead, we see her gobble up her food before they even arrive.

The food was not easy to prepare as promised. The ingredients are not normally in most pantrys so it cannot be spontaneous, and the cost of the ingredients also could be excessive once one buys all the nuts and spices. Again, not for the average american.

None of this would bother me much, however, if it was a show helping me to get started making Indian food. This is one type of food I have no idea how to prepare and making a white-trash lunchtime classic into an indian version is a disservice to us viewers.