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Posts tagged “Indian”

Cilantro-Mint Chutney: Going Beyond Indian Food

I absolutely adore chutney. It offers sweet, sour and heat in one delicious dollop. Classically served with Indian food as a condiment, chutney can also harmonize with other dishes as I discovered las...

Katherine's Quick Curry Tomatoes
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Quick Curry Tomatoes How long does it take? 25-30 minutes Category: Vegetarian Name: Katherine Why is it a favorite meal? It is really easy, flavorful and healthy....

Recipe: Sour Cream Cucumber Salad with Mustard Seeds

My Easter meal this past weekend was a fusion menu between my own cultural heritage of Eastern European food (fried rolls, rich sweet bread) and Indian cuisine (tandoori-spiced leg of lamb, sunny yell...

Recipe: Very Simple Dal Palak

We like to think of this as our Stone Soup recipe. With a few basic ingredients and handful of lentils, we can make enough to feed and satisfy an entire crowd. While we can't claim that this is the mo...

Recipe: Evan Kleiman's Lamb Vindaloo Soup

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Ingredient Spotlight: Long Peppers

Long peppers are the dried fruit of a flowering vine native to Indonesia and Java. Long peppers have been cultivated since ancient times and were used by the Romans to flavor food. After the discove...

Culinary Cocktails: The Spicy/Cool Flavors of India
Straight Up Cocktails

Cool slabs of watermelon and cucumber. Fiery slivers of hot pepper. Dark dollops of sour tamarind. Bright dashes of orange juice and muddled cilantro. These are some of the unexpected flavors and text...

Recipe: Breakfast Poha

In Devesh and Tara's Spice Pantry kitchen tour we were led on an Indian spice adventure in Tara and Devesh’s Manhattan apartment. Devesh shared two recipes: one for a typical western India breakfast...

Recipe: Authentic Chai

In Devesh and Tara's Spice Pantry kitchen tour, Devesh shared two recipes: one for an Indian breakfast called Poha, or flattened rice, and another for authentic Chai - that strongly spiced, milky tea ...

Recipe: Saffron Rice with Peas and Cashews

Rice is a staple of many diets across the world. It's endlessly flexible and variable; it can be a dessert, a side dish, a main dish. As good as plain white rice can be, we love to dress up our rice j...

Recipe: Lemon Rasam

It's usually an unusual cooking need that gets us to Sahadi’s in Brooklyn. And we almost always leave with twice as much as we intended to buy. You may never have had a need for chick pea flour, bu...

Recipe: Butternut Squash & Coconut Curry

Here’s a wonderfully warming vegan curry. It's hearty and very satisfying on a cold night. Most of the ingredients are readily available in urban areas. Some of you may already have all this stuff in...

D.I.Y. Recipe: Garam Masala

Masala, in Indian cuisine, just means spices or a mix of spices - although it does sometimes refer to the sauce the spices are used in, like chicken tikka masala. Garam masala is one of many masalas i...