Love sabudana khichdi! It’s such an funny Indian breakfast made with sabudana, which are these little tapioca pearls that you cook with peanuts, potatoes and spices. The recipes I have seen online seem to cook this dish using a pan, but my mother in … Continue reading
Mustard oil and the combination of spices give this dal it’s yummy Bengali flavor. This dal is also just a tad bit sweet. Mustard oil can be found at the Indian market. They all seem to say not for consumption, … Continue reading
Theeyal is just so good! It is a dish from Kerala and translates to “burnt dish”. The gravy is made by toasting coconut and spices until they are super brown and then grinding them into a paste. Tamarind gives it … Continue reading
Love this simple tomatoey egg curry. I was actually thinking about making a Burmese egg curry from Naomi Duguid’s Burma: Rivers of Flavor but there are so few ingredients, a main one being fish sauce, so I made an Indian version … Continue reading
I found an interesting new way to make dal on No Recipes by charring the ginger and garlic first! Kind of like how the onions and ginger are charred in Pho (Vientamese rice noodle soup). This masoor dal with charred … Continue reading
This South Indian okra is flavored with toasted mustard seeds, urad dal and curry leaves giving it a different profile than this more North Indian okra fry. I stirfry the okra first in oil to soften and lessen the sliminess. Adapted … Continue reading
When I first started blogging I used a variety of different yogurts, but these days I have found my one and only favorite by far. Trader Joe’s European Style Organic Plain Whole Milk Yogurt which is actually from the Straus … Continue reading
Okay this recipe for lauki kofta curry (bottle gourd dumpling curry) looks like a lot of ingredients, but I swear it is not a difficult recipe to make! It actually comes together very fast because there aren’t very many steps. … Continue reading
This week I’ve been trying to make all easy recipes that can be thrown together really fast on a weeknight. My husband also asked for “simple food” this week. Just we’ve been eating out so much and it just feels … Continue reading
I recently asked my husband to come up with some Indian dishes he would like to have that I haven’t made before (or ever heard of!) and he came up with rasiya dhokla and Gujarati mung bhaat. So here I present … Continue reading