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🧵 4/Fresh India/Meera Sodha

There is no higher recommendation than this book sits on my own shelves 😉 If you love Indian food but are intimidated by traditional recipes, this is the book for you. Not traditional but a modern take on Indian flavours and fresh ingredients.

You will want to cook every recipe in this book.

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The Upma was awesome btw. A typical Tamil dish. It is easy to go gluggy, but the instructions in Tiffin are perfect for perfect upma. A squeeze of lemon and a little eggplant pickle, it makes a great meal. Or could have dollop of yoghurt instead of pickle.

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I am making Upma today - traditionally a breakfast dish but I love it and make it any time of the day. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upma

Looking at EYB, I have 45 different recipes for Upma, and have made 16 of them. They are mostly more-or-less the same with variations in spices and added ingredients. But I like cooking through them all.

Apart from my own recipe, my most favourite one is from a funny little book called The Indian Cuisine, by Krishna Gopal Dubey - the recipes are all fabulous (and simple).

Today's is from Tiffin by Rukmini Srinivas (note, not the one by Ved). It is spicy and herby.

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🧵 /4 From the Kitchen

and the over-the-top delicious Punjabi buttery eggplant dal for dinner - plus LOTS for the freezer. It is such a delicious dish, (and full of cream and butter)

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It depends if you want modern South Indian or traditional. Most of the more traditional books, like Dakshin and Cook and See, will need a little knowledge about indian ingredients and techniques. Most South Indian will be gluten-free too.

🧘 Meera Sodha is good for more modern Indian. And she has a lot of online recipes. 🧘 Mridula Baljekar is prolific and has vegetarian books. 🧘 Madhur Jaffrey is very accessible. 🧘 Vegan Richa is very popular. 🧘 Ammini Ramachandran has a book, Grains, Greens and Coconuts, that is Kerala food.

🧘 Yamuna Devi's classic Lord Krishna's Kitchen is a wonderful book.

There are a few older, smaller books that are absolutely wonderful if you can find them.
📚 101 Vegetarian Delicacies
by Subramanyam Rajalakshmy
📚 Classic Book of Indian Vegetarian Curries
by Vijai Mehra
📚 Indian Vegetarian Cooking
by Devagi Sanmugam

📚 And of course, the Hare Krsna Cookbook is all online - hundreds of recipes.

None of these (apart from Dakshin, Cook and See, and Grains) are South Indian specifically. There doesn't seem to be many modern ones focusing on South Indian cuisine. If you want some suggestions for fairly traditional ones, let me know - there are a few good regional ones.

(I don't really recommend the Cook and See series, except for hard-core Indian food devotees.)

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Finally got around to making #mozzarella and #paneer tonight.

Had several quarts of fresh milk that were going to go off if not made into something.

Can't wait to make #SaagPaneer this week.

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Look at these CUTIES I got from the Indian shop today 🍆🍆🍆

They are so GORGEOUS I was beside myself.

Today will be spent deciding what to do with them.

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🧵 To go with the Kuzhi Paniyaram, I made 2 chutneys from what I had - the one on the right is a roasted tomato and grilled eggplant chutney (with green chilli, onion etc) and tadka of mustard seeds and curry leaves. It is a chutney I usually make with just roast tomatoes but I had some grilled eggplant to be used and added it. Delicious.

The other is made with pickled green mango with green chilli, mint, coriander, ginger, etc. It is hot, salty and tart.

[UPDATE: I meant to add that the recipe was given to @sister_ratched and me by one of my lovely Indian guys in my local Indian shop. He is from Kerala. He just rattled off the recipe, but we both remember it differently! 🤣 Either way we make it is delicious. ]

Yum yum yum!

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🧵 I made these cute kuzhi paniyaram for snacks today, using the last of the fermented urad dal and rice batter batter that I used for dosa and uttapam previously.

Paniyaram are round "dumplings" cooked in a special pan (see pic) in a tiny bit of ghee. They are crispy on the outside and light and fluffy inside.

There were chutneys too - I'll post shortly.

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I am a little happy because this new Indian place is pretty good! The food was excellent, the service a little slow, but good (she brought me extra of the salty mango pickle).

BUT the air con had broken down and it was hotter inside than out (no outdoor seating). 38C outside so must have been AT LEAST 45 inside. Sweltering.

Dishes: Dahi Puri (potatoes in a tiny cispy shell, topped with yoghurt, green chutney, onion and tamarind sauce)

Chole Bathure: Chickpea Curry with wonderful, deep fried bread, onion rings and spicy mango chutney.

Salt Lassi: Salted yoghurt drink, essential in a place without air con, but not as good as the one I make with cumin and black pepper.

(Ping @sister_ratched - but you're not coming any more?)

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NDTV Food asked to use this image in an upcoming article - chuffed that they liked it.

India doesn't have a lot of salads - in general cooked food is preferred. There are a few exceptions. eg: Kosambari and Kosumalli - these salads make regular appearances in Summer here. Dressed with only lemon or lime juice and the ghee from the tadka, they are simple, easy to make and utterly fresh and delicious.

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This recipe shows dhungar - a method using food-safe charcoal to add a beautiful smoky flavour to an Indian dish. You don't see it often in recipes or cookbooks, but it is a thing.

It is used here with a restaurant-style Dal Tadka.

https://www.cookwithmanali.com/dal-tadka/

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and some dosai to go with the Tovve (definitely not traditional). Here it is, cooking on the pan.

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I finally got to make the Moolangi Tovve, a dal with daikon radish, based on the wonderful trio of mung dal, cumin seed, and a good amount of ghee in the tadka. Few other spices are used - green chillies, dried red chillies, mustard seed, turmeric. Asofoetida, curry leaves.

The recipe originates from Karnataka in South India. Tovve in general is a simple, mild, home-cooked lentil dish with tamarind or lemon juice. It is also versatile - different dals and vegetables can be used. A great Winter dish - I've made it in this cooler spell we are having.

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From the garden tonight - a daikon radish.

Perhaps Daikon Curry tomorrow.

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Yesterday I had half a dozen baby eggplants, so cute, and I thought to make an Indian dish, Stuffed Eggplants. 🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆🍆

🍆 In this dish the eggplants are split but not cut through, and stuffed (in the split) with a mixture of spices and perhaps onion and/or peanuts, all ground to a paste. You may have to tie the eggplants to hold them together.

🍆 It is a great dish, but the stuffed eggplants are usually fried in ghee or oil - copious amounts. They are then served as-is or in a spicy sauce. There are many versions, but here is the general idea https://hebbarskitchen.com/bharwa-baingan-recipe-stuffed-baingan/

🍆 It was so hot yesterday, I could not think about frying food. So I made the simple eggplant dish above 👆- far quicker, and so tasty. The eggplant wedges are quickly sauteed then cooked in the sauce.

🍆 All is ready - the rice has been cooked as well. I can more or less stay away from the stove until it cools down this evening.

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I've been making Indian lassi drinks through the heatwave. Yoghurt is very cooling, and the salt lassi ones are particularly so.

There are lots of varieties of salt lassi.This one has sea salt, mint, cumin and black pepper. With yoghurt and some ice cubes of course.

You can add green chilli, ginger, curry leaves, coriander leaves, asafoetida and more....

I have a lot of lassi recipes - if you are looking for a recipe, this lassi is similar to one in The Complete Regional Indian Cookbook by Mridula Baljekar. But you can find recipes for this drink any/every where.

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I will prove to you that everything in the universe is bread. Consider any object. It must either be bread or non-bread. But naan-bread is a kind of bread. Therefore the object must be bread.

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To tempt or to inspire - Aam Ka Panna, or Roasted Green Mango Drink.

India knows how to deal with heat. They have it nailed. Their heat-beating weaponry includes: An infinite number of cooling drinks. Yoghurt dishes galore. Icecreams and cooling desserts. Fruits such as watermelon, musk melon, cucumbers, mangoes, coconuts, limes, fresh kokum. Sugar Cane Juice. Limca. Sweet Lime Soda. Coconut Water.

And this amazing drink. It is slightly sour and slightly sweet, with a hint of cardamom (or cumin), Indian black salt (which is pink in colour) and black pepper. We make it from roasted green mango, but it can be made from boiled or steamed green mango. The taste is different, though. Roasting gives the drink a slightly smoky flavour.

Green mangoes are in season now - you might like to try it.

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