Ingredients:
• Atta flour or whole wheat pastry flour – 3 cup
• Salt (or as preferred) – 2-3 tsp
• Chopped fresh coriander leaves or parsley – At least 3 tbsp
• Whole green chillies, minced (and remove the seeds if you prefer less heat) – 2-3
•
Ingredients
• Unsalted butter, at room temperature – 1 cup
• Crushed cardamom seeds or 2 teaspoons fresh ginger paste – 1 tsp
• Superfine sugar or jaggery – ½ cup (110g)
• Unbleached white flour – 2½ cups (300g)
• Fine semoli
Ingredients
• Fresh whole
• Milk – 2 litres
• Sugar – 1¼ cup
• Ghee or unsalted butter – 1 tsp
• Powdered cardamom seeds – ½ tsp
• Raw blanched pistachio nuts, chopped fine – 1 cup
Preparation
1. Combine milk, sugar, ghee and cardamom
Ingredients
• Whole-milk yogurt – 1 kg
• Ground saffron threads – ¼ tsp
• Ground cardamom – ¼ tsp
• Rosewater – 1 tbsp
• Blanched raw slivered pistachio nuts – 2 tbsp
• Powdered sugar – ½ cup
Preparation
1. D
Ingredients
• Pint milk – 3/4
• Pint water – 1/4
• Sugar – 21/2 oz
• Almonds powder – 1/2 oz
• Pistachio powder – 1/2 oz
• Cardamoms, powdered – 5-6
• Few flakes of saffron
• Rose water – 1 tbsp
Preparation
1. Mixed all the ingredients
Ingredients
• Butter, room temperature – 125g (4 ounces)
• Caster sugar – 1 cup
• Pure vanilla extract – 1 tsp
• Carob powder – 1 cup
• Hot water – ½ cup
• Fresh lemon juice – 2 tsp
• Milk – 1 cup
• Plain flour – 1 2/3 cups
• Baking powd
Ingredients
• Unbleached plain flour – 2 cups, about 300g (11 ounces)
• Wholemeal (whole wheat) plain flour – 2 cups, about 300g (11 ounces)
• Cream of tartar – ½ tsp
• Bicarbonate of soda – 1 tsp
• Sea salt – 1 tsp
• Buttermilk (or
Ingredients
• A handful or two of fresh basil leaves, whole with large stems removed
• About 12 plum tomatoes, blended
• Cauliflower, cut into bite size pieces – 1 large
• Carrot, chopped – 1 large
• Ghee
Ingredients
• Walnut-sized ball of seeded tamarind pulp – 1
• Hot water – ½ cup
• Water – 3 cups
• Basmati rice – 1½ cups
• Cumin seeds – ¼ tsp
• Whole black peppercorns – ½ tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – ¼ tsp
• R
Tomatoes with Paneer and Yogurt
Ingredients
• Paneer made from 1 gallon of milk, coarsely chopped in bite-sized chunks
• Ghee – 3 tbsp
• Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
• Small tomatoes, each cut into eighths – 3
• Salt, as desired
• Freshly ground black pepper – 1/4
Ingredients
• Bitter melons, about 250g – 4 small or 2 medium-sized
• Salt
• Turmeric – 1/4 tsp
• Cayenne pepper – 1/4 tsp
• Rice flour or 1 tablespoon rice flour and 1 tablespoon chickpea flour – 2 tbsp
Preparation
1. Trim the en
Tomatoes with Paneer and Yogurt
Ingredients
• Paneer made from 1 gallon of milk, coarsely chopped in bite-sized chunks
• Ghee – 3 tbsp
• Cumin seeds – 2 tsp
• Small tomatoes, each cut into eighths – 3
• Salt, as desired
• Freshly ground black pepper – 1/4
Ingredients
• Dried chickpeas – 1 1/4 cups
• Water – 6 cups
• Bayleaf – 1
• The seeds from 4 cardamom pods
• Cloves – 6 whole
• Black peppercorns – 5
• One 5 cm (2-inch) cinnamon stick, broken into bits
• Cumin seeds – 1 tbsp
• Ghee or oil
Thai Sticky Rice with Mango
Ingredients
• Sticky (glutinous) white rice, soaked in cold water for 1 hour, then drained – 2 cups
• Coconut milk, one 400ml can – 1¼ cups
• Salt – a pinch
• Sugar – 2 tbsp
• Ripe mangoes – 2 large
• Coconut milk to serve –
Ingredients
• Buffalo milk mozzarella, or bocconcini, sliced into 0.5 cm rounds – 250g
• A few fresh basil leaves, shredded for garnish
• Ripe, medium-sized tomatoes sliced into 0.5 cm rounds – 3 or 4
• Sea salt
•
Ingredients
• Whole milk – 10 cups (2.5 litres)
• Caster sugar or icing sugar – 1/2 cup (125ml)
• Strip of lemon rind – 7.5 cm (3-inch)
Preparation
1. Knead and bray the curd cheese on a clean surface until it is silky smooth a
Ingredients
Whole milk - 10 cups (2.5 litres)
Caster sugar or icing sugar - 1/2 cup (125ml)
Strip of lemon rind - 7.5 cm (3-inch)
Preparation
1. Knead and bray the curd cheese on a clean surface until it is silky smooth and cream
Ingredients
For base of pie
• Brown lentils – 1 1/4 cups
• Water – 2 litres
• Olive oil – 2 tbsp
• Yellow asafoetida powder – 1 tsp
• Freshly ground black pepper – 1/4 tsp
• Celery, diced – 1 cup
• Home-made curd cheese (panir) fr
Mung Bean Soup
Ingredients
• Mung beans, whole – 1 cup
• Roma tomatoes – 3
• Ghee – 4 – 5 tbsp
• Mustard seeds – 1 tsp
• Fresh ginger, grated – 2 tbsp
• Hing – 1/4 tsp
• Black pepper, ground – 1/4 tsp
• Urad dahl, split – 1/2 tsp
• Fenugreek seeds – 1/2 tsp
Ingredients
• Basmati or other long-grain white rice – 1 cup
• Water – 1 2/3-3 cups
• Salt – ¾ tsp
• Cinnamon stick – 1½-1 inch (4 cm) piece
• Cloves – 1½-1 inch (4 cm) piece – 6 whole
• Ghee or coconut oil – 3 tbsp (45 ml)
• Fresh
