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Category: Indian Cooking

“Mom’s Lemon Rice”. An Indian recipe from Bali.

“Mom’s Lemon Rice”. An Indian recipe from Bali.

Of all the beautiful places I’ve ever been to, Bali stands out. Today’s Lemon Rice recipe is as rich and flavorful as this magical island itself.  It combines the crunch of peanuts, the heat of two chillis, a hint of curry, a dash of onion,…

Dinner Party Dishes:  Vegetable Biryani

Dinner Party Dishes: Vegetable Biryani

After I published this post, I shared it on Jonell Galloway’s Facebook page “Culinary Travel by Jonell Galloway, The Rambling Epicure”.  One of  Jonell’s readers got involved when I mentioned the multiple spellings of “biryani” and Jonell asked whether it was the English spelling of…

Indian-Spiced Chicken with Tomato and Cream

Indian-Spiced Chicken with Tomato and Cream

I love Indian food.  Its intriguing blend of exotic spices and flavors are so distinctive and so transforming that it really does represent a cuisine far from our own American classics.  Take this dish from Bon Appetit.  It transforms the simple and inexpensive Chicken leg…

Butter Chicken adapted from Sam Sifton and Suvir Saran

Butter Chicken adapted from Sam Sifton and Suvir Saran

Inspiration and Photo Courtesy of The New York Times and Sarah Ann Ward Suvir Saran         The moment the thermometer drops below 60 degrees, I cannot wait to put some Indian food on the table.  This makes very little sense since the…

Short Ribs in a Cinnamon and Red Wine Sauce: An East Indian take on a North American Classic

Short Ribs in a Cinnamon and Red Wine Sauce: An East Indian take on a North American Classic

A Fusion between Indian-inflected Spices and Great Canadian Beef           This was one of the first posts I published back in 2010 when I started to blog.  Because my readership was nowhere near what it is now, I should not have…

Indian Pot Roast from Whole Foods Market

Indian Pot Roast from Whole Foods Market

            If you are thinking “native American”, this recipe probably wouldn’t raise an eyebrow.  But we’ve long since stopped calling Native Americans “Indians”.  No, the name of this dish refers to the Asian sub-continent of India.  And that may be even more surprising.  The…

Aromatic Braised Chicken with Fried Onions

Kerala, Land of Coconuts          Talk about a recipe that lives it to its name!  This glorious chicken dish perfumes the house with a wonderful aroma of spices—ginger, curry, cloves and cinnamon.  And then, when you bring it to the table and serve it over…