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Fans of Indian (or Indonesian) Food?
My new partner loves Indian food. After a few high priced dinners I decided to try my hand at it. I wasn’t surprised that I didn’t have any of the ingredients, so first I had to acquire a minimum of a dozen herbs and spices but ultimately needed twice that to make the dishes that were to come.
I’ve posted a great video about curry which lists and talks about the basics of what we, the unwashed, call “curry”… which is, simply, a stew.
Along the way I learned to make naan, a basic bread and paneer, (cheese, which is the root of many cheeses as it is made from curdled milk), and ghee, which is clarified butter.
. My first dish was butter chicken, a pretty complex dish to start with but it blew our minds and cast out Indian restaurants forever. My go to dishes in addition are shrimp pathia, sag paneer (spinach with cheese), beef curry, cabbage curry (my own improvisations, garlic fish. All accompanied by chutney, naan and yogurt.
There are dishes I still want to make. I use video recipes which make it a cinch. Anyone else doing similarly? Here’s my spice box…
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Man that sounds so good mate! Well done.
Oh man, I'm fasting this week, thanks a lot for making it a lot harder! 😂
I love indian cuisine!
Yes! I love Indian food, and living near to a US city with a relatively large population from the Indian subcontinent there are quite a few restaurants around. However, the best ones are the smaller, less ostentatious ones where the food is not aimed at an American clientele.
I also make my own food sometimes, I don't do it that often as my wife is not a fan. When she is away all day or overnight though…
I had Indian food just last night. @LinearLineman a long time ago there was a cookbook about microwave Indian food. It was from a traditional chef that adapted the long cook times to more modern equipment. If you're interested I'll try and wring the info out of the internet and my recollection.
@audiblevideo thx but not necessary. I have used a pressure cooker. That does the trick.
I’m interested in microwave shortcuts to some Indian dishes.
Ok @McD I'll play find and fetch.
We love Indian food here. And sometimes my wife (who is korean) will mix Indian spices and korean food together in a fusion dish masterpiece.
Absolutely, butter chicken, tikka masala, garlic naan yum
@dav in the video he talks about the introduction of curry to Japan (I know, Koreans and Japanese don’t get along). They, ironically, considered it “Western” and it became immensely popular.
Made Palak Paneer at home for the first time last night! Came out good.
There’s an Indian grocery a 20-30 minute drive from me. Went there to stock up on stuff that’s hard to find at the “regular” grocery store. Then just get veg and stuff at my regular neighborhood place.
Used Queso Fresco in place of actual paneer, as it’s pretty readily available here in TX.
I think Chana Masala might be the next experiment.
Once you get all the essentials in and get a feel for the cooking process, what initially seems like a complex process does become quite straightforward. I love the fact that a lot of ingredients and pulses have a long shelf life, so as long as you make sure you've always got fresh garlic/ginger and yogurt, you don't have to do much up front planning to make something that tastes great.
Also, make your own garam masala, it tastes so much better than premixed bags. Another bonus doing this is warming / toasting the spices smells wonderful.
So many recipes out there, but this is the one I ended up using time and again
https://www.google.com/amp/s/growitcatchitcookit.com/2016/03/09/garam-masala-rick-stein/amp/
Use a coffee/ spice grinder to make it a powder.
Also, it's so easy to make your own ghee, just a stick of good butter, brought up to a slow simmer for 6-7 minutes until it goes past clarified and goes all nutty and golden.
I love Indian food, I cook it at home easily enough because it’s well similar to some portuguese traditional stews, then just add spices (lots of them are common household items here for centuries) or curry paste and you’re done, but I’d love to know more about creating the different mixes. I can easily find the spices cause you know: Portugal, but any recipe recommendations? Or good cookbooks? I prefer to read than to see videos, but I’m familiar with the cooking techniques.
My kids love it as well, it’s not easy to have them agree on something so fast than saying “ok curry something for dinner”
Recently been exploring korean food (again, to make at home). Any good reading material you could suggest to increase my skills? I love what rudimentary dishes I managed to articulate so far, and it really agrees with my stomach 😋
Well, I have bought a few books to learn how to cook Korean for my wife, but I think I’ve learned more and faster by watching this YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@Maangchi. She has a book too which I bought.
@pedro check out Latif on YouTube. He’s Bengladeshi and he returns home. I love how he says bismallah before doing every process.
I asked a friend of mine who has made his own Indian food for decades if he can recommend any cookbooks for faster recipes, and he suggested books by Pat Chapman, who simplifies traditional Indian food for non-Indian kitchens.
Prawn bhuna. Onion bajis. Keema naan.
My partner requested hot and sour soup plus naan tonight. Cross cultural, indeed.
Hell yes, I grew up around Blackburn where there was a massive south Asian population and we used to get seek kebabs on the way home from school all the time. I prefer the more street food stuff myself, aloo gobi being one that I had later in life in the middle of nowhere at a place called Hampi in Karnataka, I can still taste the slightly tangy crispy delight even now. One of the things I really miss about living in London is the little cafes around Whitechapel where you can get a fish fry for a few quid and eat it with fried rice and a boiled egg with a bunch of old dudes who just nod and smile at you as you appreciate their culture’s best… I make my own mostly, a lot of UK curry places cater for the British palate, and do that silly how hot can you take it thing which I didn’t really encounter in India to the same extent, though I did get caste’d as Satria for enjoying this particularly pungent rice dish at a meeting I had in Mumbai one time, oh and the Vadapav thing there is eye watering (battered chillies in a soft bun). I really love South Indian stuff well, dhosa being the basic thing, and them in the UK is tricky, a guy in our town makes them pretty good but nowhere near as nice as Rasa in Stoke Newington (fully recommend that place, the veggie one is best too, though the fish one is also awesome)
I could go on for ages, my mates mum used to run a deli where she cooked the best Punjabi food that I’d get fed constantly when me and him worked above it on the offices making video games (sadly she died last year, she always said was her white son 😅)
Here’s a great tip for very quick + effective fake Chapati. Get a plain Tortilla wrap. Cover it in water then shake off the excess. Use spray oil to cover both sides. Place in a dry fairly hot pan. Heat each side until they blister/bubble/slightly blacken +burn. Serve with your chosen curry.
I love to cook saag paneer, dal fry, aloo jeera, and vegetarian biryani. You indeed need a huge collection of spice and herbs.
Love it! When it’s cold, it’s a great warmer food top. Love tandoori chicken. In Berlin, there are so many great Indian restaurants.
That’s awesome @LinearLineman ,
You have inspired me to try my hand at making some Indian food . ❤️
I like apps
That makes me feel good @MeatWalrus. I hope you give it a go. It seems complex at first but, there’s a lot of shared ingredients and processes. I ‘m learning general stuff, too, like assembling all the ingredients first and putting together sub groups so that the actual cooking is an assembly process with all the parts at hand.
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@Dav and @LinearLineman
Thanks a lot for those great channel recommendations:
https://www.youtube.com/@Maangchi
https://www.youtube.com/@LatifsInspired
I'm excited to start expanding my horizons, and the little I managed to watch so far is very entertaining.
My palate thanks you enormously! 🙏
@pedro, you’re more than welcome, man. You’re gonna have some fun.