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  • Milk: 2 litres
  • Sugar: ¼ cup
  • Cardamom powder: ½ tbsp
  • Water: ¼ cup with 1 tbsp vinegar
  • Saffron and pista for garnish

Easy kalakand

I am a sucker for easy ways to cook! The pandemic gave rise to a lot of time being spent in…

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  • Kairi (Raw mango, peeled and grated): 500 gm
  • Ajwain (carom seeds): ½ tsp
  • Jeera (cumin): ½ tsp
  • Methi dana (fenugreek seeds): ½ tsp
  • Kalonji (nigella seeds): ½ tsp
  • Mustard seeds: ½ tsp
  • Red chilli powder: ½ tsp
  • Haldi (turmeric): ½ tsp
  • Garam masala: 1 tsp
  • Hing (asafoetida): a pinch
  • Rock salt to taste
  • Salt: 1 tsp
  • Chaat masala: 1 tsp
  • Sugar: 500gm or equal weight to mango (or to taste)
  • Cloves: 2-3
  • Black peppercorns: 5-6
  • Black cardamom: 1
  • Saunf (fennel seeds): 2½ tsp
  • Cinnamon powder: ½ tsp
  • Mustard oil: 1 tbsp
  • Vinegar: 1 tbsp
  • Water: 1 cup
  • Seeds: melon a handful,* optional

Aam ka Laccha

Childhood memories of summers are inextricably linked to mangoes. In our childhood home in Kanpur, we had a large mango tree…

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  • Masoor dal (without chhilka): 1 cup
  • Sour green mango: 1
  • Salt to taste
  • Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
  • Methi (fenugreek) seeds: ¼ tsp
  • Dry red chillies: 2
  • Oil: 1 tsp
  • Water: 3 cups (approximately)

Dal aam (dal with raw mango)

This simple delicately flavoured and delicious item was a summer favourite in my family. When the extended family met and we…

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  • Raw mangoes: 3
  • Mustard oil: 3 tsp
  • Dry red chillies: 2-3
  • Bay leaves: 2
  • Panch phoran: 1 tsp *
  • Salt to taste
  • Sugar to taste
  • Roasted ground cumin seeds: 1 tsp

Raw mango chutney

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  • Lalbagh Sindhoora mangoes (ripe): 4
  • Sugar: ⅔ cup
  • Water: ⅓ cup
  • Kesar (saffron): a few strands (optional)
  • Elaichi (cardamom) powder: 3-4 pinches (optional)

Mango popsicles

An experiment that turned out to be my children’s favourite!

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  • Raw mango (grated): 250 gm
  • Ajwain (carom seeds): ⅓ tsp
  • Mangrela (kalonji, onion seeds): ⅓ tsp
  • Saunf (fennel seeds): ⅓ tsp
  • Rai (black mustard Seeds): ⅓ tsp
  • Methi dana (fenugreek seeds): a pinch
  • Haldi (Turmeric): ⅓ tsp
  • Kashmiri chilli powder: ⅓ tsp
  • Mustard oil: 50 ml
  • Salt to taste
  • Green chillies or dried red chillies: as per taste.

Kachche aam ka koocha ( a grated…

My Dadi’s favourite. I can still feel her company when I have this koocha. The word ‘koocha’ means that which has…

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  • Green mangoes: 1 kg
  • Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
  • Salt: 1 tsp
  • Red chilli powder: to taste
  • Coriander seeds: 4 tsp
  • Saunf (fennel) seeds: 4 (2+2) tsp
  • Jeera (cumin): 3 tsp
  • Sarson (mustard seeds): 1 tsp
  • Mustard oil: 1½ cup

Mrs. Shanti Lal’s aam achaar

I’m making mango pickle, my mil’s recipe after 35 years! The recipe is on an old inland letter which, for safekeeping,…

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  • Raw mango: 1 kg
  • Salt (mix of white/sendha/kaala}: 2-3 tbsp (or as per taste)
  • Red chilli powder: 3-4 tbsp (or as per taste)
  • Hing (asafoetida): 2 tsp (depending on its potency)
  • Sugar/powdered jaggery: 350-400 gm (adjust to taste)

Hing wala aam achaar (mango pickle with…

In Kanpur, we shifted into an apartment in 1993 and our neighbours there had a hing (asafoetida) factory. We first ate…

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  • Tequila: 60 ml
  • Triple sec: 15 ml
  • Creme de menthe: 15 ml
  • Sugar syrup: 30 ml
  • Lime juice: 30 ml
  • Black salt: ½ tsp
  • Tabasco (optional): a dash

The Wicked Elsa

Story for a cocktail? None needed! It’s a heck of a story by itself with the subtle nudges and tickles of…

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  • Vodka\ agave\gin\tequila: 45 ml
  • Mango juice: 60-80 ml
  • Lime juice: 15 ml
  • Basil, mint or jalapeno for flavour
  • Crushed ice: 7-8 cubes
  • Bitters: optional
  • Cocktail shaker

Aam Sutra

Here’s one for the love of mangoes! For all those (comme moi) who cant get enough of those curvaceous, voluptuous, and…

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  • Cranberry juice: 200 ml
  • Fresh mint leaves: 10-12
  • Crushed ice: 6-7 ice cubes
  • Tabasco (or any red pepper sauce): ½ tsp
  • Salt: ½ tbsp
  • Lemon: 1

Spiced virgin cranberry margarita

This drink was part of the cookout I had done for ElsaTable in Mar 2021. It was concocted by my daughter…

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  • Coarsely ground black whole urad dal: 1 cup
  • Ghee (vegan alternative: coconut oil): 2-3 tbsp
  • Hing (asafoetida): ½ tsp
  • Jeera (cumin seeds): 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Haldi (turmeric): ½ tsp
  • Coriander powder: 1 tsp
  • Red chilly powder: 1 tsp
  • Garlic cloves: - 3-4
  • Green chilly: 1
  • Coriander leaves: for garnish
  • Lemon juice (optional): for garnish

Phanoo/ Phani

This dish, along with Bhatt ki Chutney and Gahat ke Kebab, was part of the Live cookout for ElsaTable in Feb…

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