Taste of India

Eager to show my enlarged cooking portfolio, I experimented my newly learned indian recipes on my girlfriend and a friend. Here’s the result (not bad at all being the first try).

Indian dinner!

Here’s also a list of what we prepared, linked to some well explained recipes:

• Chapati (no need for ghee, just go with flour, water and salt!)
• Curd (actually we haven’t prepared that one, I bought at the grocery dairy product most similar to it I could find!)
• Green cucumber salad
• Paneer (see ‘Curd’ note)
• Paneer Bhurj (simply the best)
• Lentils (I haven’t found a recipe on the internet but I learnt it at Ruchi, we used Paneer Bhurj base of onions, tomatoes and spices with lentils in place of paneer)
• Rice (just plain rice)
• Tandoori Chicken (we had a few setbacks in the preparation and we hadn’t properly followed the recipe)

A few notes on this trial:

• Don’t worry if you don’t have all the spices required; in my experience chilly and cumin are the fundamental ones to obtain the taste of India!
• We had a fresh white wine with the food, I don’t really know if it’s proper or not, I’ve never had alcoholic beverages while in India
• I believe this are mostly north indian recipes, there’s is a universe of different dishes extending more into meat and also into fish; check the websites I’ve reported for the previous recipes to see more of them.

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