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  • Rice (soaked overnight): 4 cups
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for greasing the pan

Neer dosa

(3.3 / 5)
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  • Mustard seeds (sorisha): 2 tsp
  • Cumin seeds:1 tsp
  • Poppy seeds (khuskhus/postodaana): ½ tsp
  • Garlic: 6-7 cloves
  • Dry red chilies: 2 (or as per taste)
  • Prawns: 250 gms
  • Malabar spinach (poi saago): 500 gm
  • Potato: 50 gm
  • Pumpkin: 50 gm
  • Colocasia (saaru): 50 gm
  • Oil: 3-4 tsp
  • Salt: to taste
  • Turmeric powder: a pinch
  • Water: 1 cup

Poi chungudi

The poi (English name Malabar Spinach) is a humble, glossy green, fleshy-leafed creeper that grows profusely in India’s eastern states like…

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  • Besan (Gramflour): 1½ cup
  • Curd: 3½ tbsp
  • Fennel (coarsely powdered): 1 tsp
  • Coriander powder: 1 tsp
  • Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
  • Garam masala (mixed spice): ½ tsp
  • Red chilli powder: ¼ - ½ tsp
  • Hing (asafoetida): ¼ tsp
  • Salt: ¾ tsp or to taste
  • Ghee (clarified butter): 1 tbsp
  • Beaten curd: 1½ cup
  • Besan: 1 tbsp
  • Tomatoes (pureed and reduced): 4 (medium)
  • Coriander powder:1 tsp
  • Green chilli (slit):1
  • Turmeric powder: ¾ tsp
  • Garam masala: ½ tsp
  • Peppercorns: 8
  • Cloves: 4
  • Cumin seeds: ½ tsp
  • Ghee: 1 tbsp

Gatte ki sabzi

Born to parents rooted in Punjab, it wasn’t until I got married in a Marwari family that I laid my eyes…

(4.5 / 5)
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  • Spinach (blanched and pureed): 1 big bunch
  • Paneer (grated): 70 gm
  • Green chillies (finely chopped): 2
  • Garlic cloves (finely chopped): 8-10
  • Turmeric powder: ½ tsp
  • Besan: 4-5 tsp
  • Cashew powder(dry grind in a blender): 4-5 tsp
  • Cornflour: 2-3 tsp
  • Jeera (cumin): 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Oil for frying (vegetable or pomace oil)
  • Tomatoes (roughly chopped): 10-12
  • Broken cashewnuts: 10-12
  • Fresh cream: 2-3 tsp
  • Butter: 2 tsp
  • Oil: 2-3 tsp
  • Kasuri methi (dried fenugreek leaves): 2-3 tsp
  • Onions (roughly chopped): 2
  • Whole red chillies: 2
  • Honey: 3 tsp
  • Garlic cloves (chopped): 7-8
  • Ginger (chopped): 1 tsp
  • Green cardamom: 5-6
  • Salt to taste
  • Deggi mirch powder: 2 tsp
  • Dhania (coriander) powder: 2 tsp
  • Black cardamom: 1
  • Jeera (cumin): 1 tsp
  • Mace: ½ blade
  • Cloves: 2

Green kofta curry (palak paneer koftas)

This dish was part of the cookout I held for ELSATable in Jan 2021.

(4 / 5)
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  • Soya nugget chunks: 150 gm
  • Chana dal: 1 cup
  • Ginger: ½"
  • Garlic: 15-20 cloves
  • Jeera: 1 tsp
  • Cinnamon: 1 small stick
  • Black cardamom: 2
  • Green cardamom: 2
  • Bay leaves: 2
  • Black peppercorns: 5-6
  • Cloves: 4
  • Dry red chillies: 2
  • Onion (finely chopped): 1 medium
  • Mint leaves (freshly chopped): 3 tsp
  • Green chillies (chopped): 2
  • Red chilli powder: ½ tsp (optional)
  • Salt to taste
  • Freshly chopped green coriander
  • Oil for shallow frying (vegetable or pomace olive oil)

Soya shami kababs

This dish was part of the cookout I held for ELSATable in Jan 2021.

(5 / 5)
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  • Urad dal (split): 100 gm
  • Moong dal (split): 100 gm
  • Ginger: ½"
  • Salt: ½ tsp + ½ tsp
  • Green chilli: 1
  • Eno sachet: 1
  • Heeng (asafoetida): 2 pinches
  • Vegetable oil for greasing idli mould
  • Lukewarm water for soaking
  • Fresh green coriander
  • Dry coconut
  • Raisins
  • Ginger
  • Cashewnuts
  • Chironji
  • Tamarind sweet and sour chutney
  • Fresh coriander and mint chutney
  • Roasted/bhuna cumin/jeera powder*
  • Besan sev
  • Pomegranate arils
  • Red chilli powder
  • Chilled beaten curd/dahi (sugar can be added to the curd).

Steamed dahi bhalla

This dish was part of the cookout I held for ELSATable in Jan 2021.  The recipe for the tamarind chutney used…

(5 / 5)
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  • Coriander leaves: 2 cups
  • Mint leaves: 1 cup
  • Ginger: ½"
  • Garlic: 4 cloves
  • Green chillies
  • Lemon juice: 2-3 tsp
  • Jeera (cumin): 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste

Coriander and mint chutney

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  • Seedless tamarind: 1 cup
  • Water: 4 cups
  • Jaggery( broken into small pieces): 1½ cup
  • Bhuna jeera (roasted cumin): 2 tsp
  • Red chilli powder: 1 tsp
  • Heeng (asafoetida): ½ tsp
  • Black salt: 2 tsp
  • Salt to taste
  • Raisins: 4 tsp

Tamarind sweet and sour chutney

(5 / 5)
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  • Peanuts (boiled with the skin and then shelled): ½ cup
  • Carrot (diced in squares, the size of the peanuts): ½ cup
  • Green capsicum (chopped the same size as the carrot): ½ cup
  • Raw mango (peeled and chopped in the same size as the other vegetables): ½ cup
  • Sugar: 1 tsp
  • Salt to taste

Sambandhi salad

Sometimes the simplest of recipes turn out to be the tastiest. The Sambandhi salad is one such, named so because the…

(4 / 5)
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  • Button mushrooms (sliced):1 cup
  • Iceberg lettuce (coarsely chopped): 1 cup
  • Capsicum (sliced): ½ cup
  • Cucumbers (sliced): 1 cup
  • Cherry tomatoes (halved): ½ cup
  • Green chilli (sliced): 1
  • Honey: 2 tbsp
  • English mustard: ½ tsp
  • Garlic (minced): ½ tsp
  • Juice of lemon: 1
  • Salt to taste
  • Ground pepper as per taste

Mushroom salad with honey mustard dressing

I fondly recall how my parents encouraged us to have a lot of fresh vegetables, at times semi-cooked or raw. These…

(5 / 5)
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  • Raw mango: 100 gm
  • Peanuts: 50 gm
  • Medium onion (thinly sliced): ½
  • Soy sauce: 1 tsp
  • Powdered sugar: 1 tsp
  • Mint: a few sprigs
  • Salt to taste
  • Red chili powder/chilli flakes: ¼ tsp

Mango peanut salad

Sometimes things just come together! “A li’l bit of this , a li’l bit of that … what shall we put…

(5 / 5)
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  • Pork fillet: 500 gm (or any other meat of your liking)
  • Bacon strips: at least one per medallion*
  • Ghee: 2 tbsp
  • Butter: 1 tbsp
  • Red wine: 100 ml
  • Freshly ground salt and pepper (to taste)

Pork medallions

This recipe has been shared by our son Arnav who made it for his Indo-German family’s Christmas meal a few days…

(4.3 / 5)
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