Any experts in Indian cooking?

janatarnhem

Bump for later......great thread, I'm drooling, but no time to read it properly!

benol1

I have been cooking Indian cuisine for about thirty years. Its my all time favourite cuisine to cook and eat.
If you have the time, make your dishes from scratch.
A couple of tips:

"Eastern Vegetarian Cooking" by Madhur Jaffrey is excellent. Its scope is Asian cuisine but there are very many Indian and Sri Lankan recipes.

Don't ever compromise on quality ingredients.

Get yourself some decent cooking equipment (if you haven't already).

Follow a recipe precisely until you've mastered it and then experiment.

A nutrition tips I recommend:
Substitute brown, black or red rice for white rice.
I am now a vegan so I now steer away from recipes that incl. cream or yoghurt.

I'm actually making an Indian meal for tomorrow night's dinner that includes beetroot and tomato soup, red beans cooked with ginger and garlic served with red rice.
kind regards,

Ben

neandermagnon

*in* for tips on Indian cooking! And Pakistani and Bengali while you're at it!

anorangie

Not an expert, but this is one of my favorite recipes

Bal's No-Butter Chicken
http://www.cookingchanneltv.com/recipes/bal-arneson/bals-no-butter-chicken.html

TArnold2012

Have to bump this one ~~~ yum

abheshek

Thank god Im not. I would be 400lbs...easily

very ignorant reply.....Not all indian food are fatty stuff!

sola24

I make very healthy curries.. any curries you want to make, just take 1 small spoon of oil fry the spices and chilli you want to put, meantime boil ur veggies with turmeric and salt, preferably pressure cook. Once the spices are fried, put in the boiled veggies with as much of the water you want.. I use the same water it was boiled in to retain the flavour and spices.. bring the whole thing to boil and simmer.. and add seasonings.. If you want to eat with rice, keep it light, if roti, you have to thicken it a bit.. its light healthy and yum.. works for almost any veggies..

V0lver

Thank god Im not. I would be 400lbs...easily

very ignorant reply.....Not all indian food are fatty stuff!

Ditto!
He was actually saying how much he loves indian food. If i were you, i would work on my reading comprehension because you seem to misread a lot in here.

benol1

Tonight I made:
Pindi Channa (Rawalpindi-style chickpea curry),
Saag (Spiced spinach cooked with onion and tomato),
Red rice, and
Chapatti.
The chapattis were store bought but the rest I made from scratch - inc roasting and grinding my own spices.

k80flec

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