§ Recipes Cheat Sheet
§ A Simple Stew
- chop onions
- fry Ground nut oil with chopped onions
- add the tomato to the mixture
- allow that to fry for about 5 minutes
- add the meat water to the mixture
- curry, thyme, maggi (bouillon cubes), salt, peppers
- boil for like 5 minutes
- boil white rice and then serve with stew
- Thanks to Danda for the recipe!
§ Babish recipes
§ Upma
- start with ghee, sesame seeds, curry leaves, red + green chili, ginger garlic paste, hing (asaefodita).
- finely chopped onion, allow this to caramelize.
- A dash of turmeric for depth.
- Add in the rava, allow it to cook/heat.
- Add in tomato and a little water when it's done heating. Allow tomato to cook.
- Add in more water, cover with a lid, and let it come to a boil. Keep stirring to prevent clumps.
- Garnish with coriander.
§ General Coconut based thickening agent
- A few methi seeds (pungent, deep scent)
- some coriander seeds (mild herbal scent)
- Chopped up red chilis (heat, spice, color)
- Chopped up green chilis (spice)
- Chopped up green chilis (spice)
- Chopped up garlic (some; strong, garlicky flavour and scent)
Heat the spices with oil to create a fragrant mix (Tadka [Hindi ] / Oggarane [Kannada ]).
- Grated coconut
- Salt (to taste)
Finally, throw in the above heated spices into the blender along with the
grated coconut and blend all of it. It turns into a thick red paste.
§ Breadfruit Sambhar
- Heat up oil.
- Fry sesame seeds, cumin seeds, curry leaves, a tiny cinnamon stick first.
- Once fried, add in garlic to taste.
- After garlic has fried as well, saute onions till golden.
- Finely chop tomatoes and add it to the sauteed onions. Cover with a lid
- till the tomatoes release all their water.
- Now that we have a solid flavour base, pour in water to cook the breadfruit.
- Add in the chopped breadfruit --- chop the breadfruit in thin slices
- along the center; the center has interesting texture we wish to maximize.
- Add in the General coconut based thickening agent .
- Also add salt to taste.
- Cover with a lid. Allow breadfruit, water, and thickening agent to come to a boil.
- Lower flame to low. Allow breadfruit to soften and cook.
- Once breadfruit is cooked, pour in coconut milk . Continue cooking for ten minutes.
§ Rava Dosa
- Mix bombay rava, maida/refined flour(2 tablespoons), rice flour (2 tablespoons), curd/buttermilk(100ml), salt (2 tablespoon), water (2 cups). Mix to form wet batter.
- We add the bombay rava for softness, refined flour as glue, and rice flour for crispiness. Curd for sourness and thickening.
- Next, heat up some oil, fry sesame seeds, finely chopped onions, curry leaves, asaefoedita, garlic. Add all of this into the batter mix.
- Allow batter to ferment overnight in the fridge.
- Make pancakes the next day.
§ Kerela style chicken curry
- Chop ginger and garlic roughly, boil chicken, salt, pepper-ginger-garlic-turmeric.
- Grate coconut finely, Roast grated coconut in a heated iron pan. Once well roasted, kill heat, add chili and coriander powder and salt, and mix.
- Next, fry thinly sliced onions in coconut oil.
- Add the onions in as a garnish at the last step.
§ Chutney
- Green chili
- Dried Coconut pieces
- Salt
- Blend
- Add tamarind and water
- Blend
§ Regular dosa batter:
- Grind coconut pieces
- Add dosa rice (2 cups)
- Add some water (100ml)
- Blend
- Salt
- Add more water (300ml).