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Dals become your best friends when you are watching your calorie intake. High on nutrients, equally high on taste, they play a starring role in many salads, soups, spreads and dips. IFF members share eight of their favourite recipes with us. Padma Anagol: Kosambari Ingredients: 50 gms moong dal 2…
Chole, or chickpea curry, is arguably the one dish that personifies North Indian cooking, and there are as many variations to the basic recipe as there are households! Five members of IFF share their favourite chole recipes here. Mona Malik: Pindi Chana Pindi Chana is a treasure that Mona Mallik…
Most Indian households have at least one version of a dish where rice and pulses are cooked together, with or without vegetables, and with different combinations of spices. Whether it be the humble khichadi or pongal, or the slightly more exotic kadambam or bise bele bhat, these “one dish meals”…
Beetroot Dosa Mona Jain shares one of her Mom’s specialty with us…it is a favorite with her kids and we are sure it will be with yours as well… Ingredients: 2 medium size beetroot grated 2 onions finely chopped One inch ginger grated Green chilli to taste Dhaniya chopped finely 1 tsp Jeera/Cumin…
Patoday Curry/ Arbi or Colocasia leaf rolls in curry Patra or Patoday are batter coated rolled Arbi/Colocasia leaves, first steamed and then fried. Typically eaten as snacks, here is Atma Prakash Mishra’s (AP) curry version… AP says “In my home, my mother used to prepare Patoday in a slightly dif…
Chutney Week: Part6, Coconut Chutneys The twists and turns of Coconut Chutneys… Natasha Ramarathnam: Coconut Chutney, There are many, many ways of making coconut chutney, but this is the way my mother (and her mother before her) made it, and I am sticking to it. Ingredients: 1 medium Coconut grat…
Chutney Week: Part 5 , ‘The Essentials’ Chutneys Grouping these under ‘the essentials’ as various versions of these are found in almost every household… Mona Malik: Hari Chutney or Green Chutney or Mint Coriander Chutney or Coriander chutney or Mint Chutney…or dip!! Ingredients: 1 cup Fresh Green…
Chutney Week: Part 4 ,Chutney powders Annie Alexander : Kerala Chamanthi Podi Ingredients: About 2 cups Fresh grated Coconut 3-4 sliced small Onions 1/2 tsp of chopped Ginger 1 tsp of chopped Garlic 5-6 Peppercorns few curry leaves Whole dry red chilies or crushed chili flakes, to taste ( I added…
Chutney Week: Part 3 , Fruit Chutneys Sandipa Nitin Tombat: Strawberry Chutney Ingredients: 200 gms of Sugar 400 ml of Water 400 gms of Strawberries 2/3 Cinnamon Sticks Method: Wash and slice the Strawberries into halves. In a pan boil water and sugar to make syrup. When the syrup is virtually do…
Chutney Week: Part 2 , Mango Chutneys The second installment from Chutney Week, Mango Chutneys… Padma Anagol: Mango Chutney Ingredients: 1 big Raw Mango cut into pieces ½ Coconut grated 1/2 cup Jaggery 1 tsp Methi/Fenugreek), fried in oil & powdered Salt & Chilli powder, per taste 1 tsp Hing/Asaf…
Chutney Week: Part 1 , Tomato Chutneys The call was simple… Mona Malik : “Make a mean Chutney? We want it!! Calling all the Chutney Freaks at Indian Food Freak…declaring Chutney week on IFF…desi, videshi, old, new, sweet, sour, spicy, experimental, family recipe…post them and be a part of the gre…
Natasha Ramarathnam shares her recipe of the Sweet potato croquettes with us. This is what Natasha had to say ” I keep buying sweet potatoes for the health benefits, and since I got fed up of having the same thing over and over again, got a recipe from the net. Definitely making it again. The…
