Coconut Chutney
Ingredients: • Dessicated coconut – 1½ cups • Mild yogurt – 1½ cups • Cold water – ½ cup • Minced fresh ginger – 1 tbsp • Hot green chilies, chopped – 2 tsp • Freshly ground black pepper – ¼ tsp • Salt – ½ tsp • Peanut oil – 2 tbsp • Black mustard seeds – 1 tsp • Split urad dal – 1½ tsp • Fresh curry leaves – 10 or 12 • Yellow asafetida powder – ¼ tsp Preparation:...
Bengali Spinach
Ingredients: • Raw almonds, peanuts or pistachios, with skins – 2/3 cup (100 g) • Warm water – 2 cups • Ghee or sesame oil • Black mustard seeds – 1 tsp • Cumin seeds – ½ tsp • Fenugreek seeds – 1/8 tsp • Jaggery or dark brown sugar – 1½ tbsp • Scraped, fined shredded or minced fresh ginger root – ½ tbsp • Seeded and minced hot green chilies – 1 tsp • Fresh spinach, trimmed, washed and...
Zucchini Pakora with Crushed Peanuts
Ingredients: • Sifted chickpea flour (sifted before measuring) – 1½ cups (135g) • Melted ghee or vegetable oil – 1½ tsp • Lemon juice – 1 tbsp (15 ml) • Crushed cumin seeds – 1 tsp • Hot green chilies, seeded and minced – 1-2 • Salt – 1 tsp • Cold water or enough to make a medium-consistency batter – Up to 9 tbsp • Baking powder – ¼ tsp • Finely chopped peanuts – 3 tbsp...
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...
Peanut Wonder
Ingredients •Peanuts………………………………………………………. 2 C •Water ……………………………………………………….. 4 C •Salt...