Sweet and Sour Tamarind Chutney
Ingredients • Dried tamarind – 1/3 cup • Dried dates – 3/4 cup • Minced fresh ginger – 1½ tsp • Fresh green chilies chopped – 1-2 • Sugar – ½ cup • Salt – 1 tsp • Garam masala – 1½ tsp • Cayenne pepper – ½ tsp Preparation 1. Soak the tamarind in 1 1/3 cups hot water for 1 hour. Soak the dates in ½ cup hot water for 1 hour. Place the soaked dates and their soaking liquid along with the...
Cultured Buttermilk
Ingredients: • Fresh skim or low-fat milk – 4 cups (1 litre) • Commercial cultured buttermilk – 3/4 cup (185 ml) • Skim- or full-fat milk powder – 2/3 cup (165 ml) Preparation: 1. Heat the milk over moderate heat in a heavy-bottomed 2-litre/quart pan, stirring constantly. Don’t boil the milk; just heat it until it reaches 42°C/108°F. Remove from the heat. 2. Blend the buttermilk and milk powder in a blender or...
Cubed Potatoes with Fresh Fenugreek
Ingredients: • Medium-sized waxy red, New potatoes or walnut-sized baby reds – 1½ pounds (685g) • Mustard oil, peanut oil or ghee – 5 tbsp • Cumin seeds – 1 tsp • Black mustard seeds – 1 tsp • Chopped fenugreek greens or leaf spinach, (washed and trimmed) – 1½ cups • Paprika or cayenne pepper – ¼ tsp • Turmeric – ½ tsp • Salt – 1 tsp • Garam masala – 1 tsp • Lemon or lime juice...
Wood Apple Juice
Ingredients • Ripe Wood Apple(Bel fruit) – 1 • Grated Jaggery – 1/2 Cup • Cardamom Powder – 1/2 tsp • Salt – a pinch Preparation 1. Cut the bel fruit. 2. Remove the pulp in a vessel. 3. Add 2 cups of water and squash the fruit in the water using hands. 4. Sieve and keep it aside. 5. Add 1 cup water to Jaggery and melt it completely. 6. Sieve Jaggery water and add it to the fruit pulp. 7. Add Cardamom powder and...
A Meat Eater’s Delight
By Kurma Dasa In 1996 Kurma published a seven-hundred page book on the history of the Hare Krishna Movement in Australia entitled “The Great Transcendental Adventure”. The book also serves as a biography of the movement’s founder and Acharya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, affectionately known as Srila Prabhupada. The following essay is an excerpt from that book. Dawson Avenue, Brighton Tuesday 25 June, 1974. Dipak had...