All about Indian Food, Recipes, Spices and Cooking
Indian Food (Cuisine) has now become very popular worldwide. You can find find Indian restaurants in almost every city in the world. London itself has over 300 Indian Food and Curry Restaurants.
Millions of Indians now reside outside of India and are sharing their culture, taste and love of Indian cooking everywhere they go. Foreigners are now increasingly growing their taste palette and developing a fondness for indian food with all the spices, ingredients and curries that are so easily available to them. It is said that in the UK people eat more curries than the traditional fish and chips.
Preparing Indian Food in your home in not a very difficult thing. All you need is the right recipe and the right ingredients. Every city have several stores that carry unique Indian spices. It is not difficult at all to find all the recipes at several places in every city.
Indian cuisine has a myriad of selection. Every region of India have their own cooking styles, spices and recipes that make them unique. One thing can be said of Indian food is that it is the most flavorful of all food. Indian recipes in the north and are cooked and prepared differently than in the south. So in the big country that is India, there are over 1,000 recipes that can found.
People in the coastal region prepare more seafood dishes such as prawn vindaloos, fish curries and kormas. In the north they prefer to eat more chicken and mutton. Tandoori chicken, tikkas, kebabs and butter chicken are more of a north Indian dish.
Indian food uses a myriad of chillies and spices. Different regions of India uses them differently and in different amounts in their food. Spices such as cumin, paprika, turmeric, coriander, ginger and garlic are just some of the spices that are used everyday in Indian recipes.
Indian Food also uses a lot of butter and ghee (treated fat) in their cooking. They believe that the more butter, milk, yoghurt and ghee used makes the food taste better.
As there are millions of vegetarians in India, they are hundreds of vegetarian recipes for them. Aloo Gobi, Bangan curry, Daal and paneer are just a few to name.
Indian breads have also become very popular with foreigners. Naan, Rotis and Puris are essential in a Indian diet. We eat our curries and soups with these breads. They are tasty and definitely filling.
I live in Bangkok and in the past several years have noticed over 200 hundred Indian restaurants here. Most of them prepare traditional north Indian recipes but there are several restaurants that also prepare south indian favorites such as idli, sambar, vara and dosas.
Indian spices and chillies also has several health benefits. Everybody should try to cook and eat Indian food more often to help in better circulation of the blood and heart. Just take it easy on the butter and yoghurt. :)
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Butter Chicken Recipe
This is my all time favourite Indian Chicken Curry Dish
Ingredients :1 whole chicken
2 tomatoes puree in a blender
2 onions, chopped
1 tbsp ginger-garlic paste
15 cashew nuts paste
1 ½ tbsp butter
3 tbsp cream
1 tsp chilli powder
Oil for frying
salt to taste
For the marinade :
1 tbsp tandoori masala
½ tbsp garam masala (cloves, cinnamon and cardamom powdered)
2 tbsp lime juice
½ tsp jeera
5 tbsp yoghurt
Method :
Marinate the chicken in the marinade for 1 whole hour.
Heat oil in a non-stick pan and fry the chicken for 10 minutes.
Remove the chicken and keep aside.
In the remaining oil fry add the chopped onions till golden , then add the ginger-garlic paste and fry sprinkling little water now and then, till the oil separates.
Add the cashew paste, chilli powder, tomato paste and cook for 10 mins.
Add the butter and the cream and the chicken.
Mix well and cook till done.
Garnish with coriander.
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I Really Like Lamb and want to share this Recipe
Lamb in Red Curry
Ingredients :1 lb lamb cut into small pieces
Blend together to a fine paste:
2 medium onions
1.5" ginger
6-8 flakes of garlic
a small piece cinnamon
2-3 cloves
2 black cardammom
Blend together to a fine paste:
10 red chillies
1 lb. tomatoes
Cooking oil
2 tsp coriander pwd
1/2 tsp cumin pwd
Coriander leaves(Cilantro), chopped
Salt to taste
Method :
Heat some oil in a pan and fry the first blended mixture till done.
Add the second mixture and fry till the mixture has lost all the water content and oil begins to float on top.
Now add all the dry powders and fry for a minute.
Add the lamb, salt to taste and the cilantro.
Add some water and simmer the curry for around 10 minutes.
The gravy should turn thick by then. Eat when hot.
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Lamb Korma Recipe
Korma = any meat or vegetable made into a ball shape
Ingredients :2 tablespoons ghee or oil
1 onion, sliced
700 g mutton
2 green cardamoms
2 black cardamom pods
2 bay leaves
4 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon garlic paste
1 teaspoon ginger paste
3-4 teaspoons yogurt
2 teaspoons coriander powder
1 teaspoon red chili powder
1 pinch black pepper
salt to taste
1 cup chicken stock or water
6-7 saffron strands, soaked
2 tablespoons cream (optional)
Directions :
Heat ghee in a deep pan over medium heat.
Add green cardamoms, black cardamoms, bay leaves, cloves, cinnamon stick and sauté.
Add the finely sliced onions and sauté till they are transparent. Reduce the heat, add the ginger garlic paste and stir well.
Add the lamb, stirring constantly till it changes colour.
Add yoghurt, coriander powder, red chili powder and cook till oil starts separating.
Add some salt, then chicken stock or water and bring to a boil. Cover and cook on a slow fire till done.
Mix in black pepper powder,saffron.
Garnish with thin deep fried onion rings, cream and serve hot.
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Vegetarian Dish
Ingredients :1 cauliflower
2 potatoes, boiled & peeled
1 tbsp coriander, finely chopped
1 green chillies
1 onion, finely chopped
¼ tsp turmeric powder
½ tsp dhania powder
1 tsp lemon juice
2 tbsp curds
½ tsp cumin seeds
3 tbsp oil or ghee
To be ground into paste :
2 tbsp coconut, grated
¼ cup coriander, chopped
3 green chillies
½ tsp ginger grated
1 tsp garlic grated
1 onion
½ tsp wheat flour
Method :
Break cauliflower into florettes. Simmer in boiling water for 3 to 4 minutes.
Drain, keep aside. Chop potatoes into medium chunks.
Heat oil in a pan, add cumin seeds, allow to splutter.
Add onion and green chilli, saute till pink.
Add paste, turmeric powder, dhania powder, saute for 2-3 minutes.
Add curds, stir continuously, till boiling resumes.
Add potatoes, cauliflower, cook till gravy thickens.
Stir occasionally to avoid burning.
When gravy is thick and oil separates, add lemon juice and it is done .
Garnish with coriander, serve hot.
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Things You Must Know About Indian Curries and Spices
Indian curry tradition is over 5,000 years old and the term curry which is an English word is derived from the South Indian Tamil word kari meaning vegetables cooked in spices. Curry is a gravy dish or a stew like dish with spices and seasonings and flavored with hot and sour tastes. Authentic Indian curry, one of the world's fastest growing ethnic food trends, combines flavors, textures and pungency which are unique. Each region of India has its own distinctive style of seasoning while preparing a curry and a common factor in all the regional styles of cooking curry is marination and slow cooking which ensures the flavor and color of herbs and spices to meat, fish and vegetables.1. Spices : are derived from plants and are aromatic dried bark, roots, buds, seeds, berries or fruits. When spices are heated the aroma and flavour is released.
2. Curry : the authentic indian curry often combines the following spices, coriander, turmeric, fenugreek, cloves, ginger, red and black pepper as well as other spices. One of the popular spice blends used in Indian curries is called "Garam Masala".
3. Bhuna : bhuna is a Hindi term for cooking the various spices (Masala) in hot oil to release the natural oils and flavours of the spices and remove the raw taste.It literally means fry in oil and most important process in cooking a perfect Indian curry.
4. Tadka/Bargar/Poppu : bargar is a Hindi term for the process of frying whole spices and is a technique used for the same reasons as Bhuna, to cook out the raw taste from the spices. The oil used should be hot and the spices added whole.The spices are cooked the moment they colour and start to float.
5. Masala : is mixture of spices sauteed in oil or ghee. Perhaps the most famous is Garam masala, a major spice blend of Indian cookery where each home has its own spice blends. It is often added towards the end of the recipe.
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eChairzOfficeChairs says:
Red lentil soup is one of the best...Warm earthy taste with a spicy aroma. Browse my lens for the recipe!
Posted September 27, 2008
CrypticFragments says:
oh I love Indian food! my roommates won't go w/me to an Indian restaurant so I have to settle for (EEK!) frozen tikka masala and paleek paneer and samosas...
Posted September 22, 2008
The_Homeopath says:
My mouth is watering now. I love Indian Food with only one exception: I just can't eat papadums anymore. A few years ago my daughter and I made a HUGE batch and I made myself ill eating so many of them.
Posted June 26, 2008
indiamarks says:
I love Indian food...the blend of spices and variety of flavors is unbeatable
Posted May 30, 2008
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papawu
Wow! I am a huge fan of Indian cuisine and love just about anything spicy. Wonderful lens. I rate this an enthusiastic 5 stars! Posted October 04, 2008 |
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CrypticFragments
another awesome lens! so glad I found you Posted September 22, 2008 |
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Treasures-By-Brenda
We love butter chicken and we have a wonderful slow cooker recipe for it. Great lens, I've lensrolled it to my new lens, Recipe For Finding Good Cookbooks. You might like to visit and tell us about your FAVORITE cookbook! Posted September 12, 2008 |
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Laddoo
That is one wonderful lens you have and you do deserve a full 5 pointer on this. Posted July 31, 2008 |
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The_Homeopath
Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful lens. I LOVE Indian Food. Well, I love anything Indian to be honest! Thanks so much for making me hungry, 5* Posted June 26, 2008 |
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indiamarks
Thanks for the kind comment on my Lens! Posted June 24, 2008 |
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Dad-The-Lad
I love eating curry at any time of day. I think people often have a misconception that curry is unhealthy - it doesn't have to be. As one of me lens explains, I have lost a good amount of weight over the last 6 months and I eat curried type dishes at least twice a week. Keep up the good stuff, more veggiw curries please. Posted June 24, 2008 |
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beachbum_gabby
Fantastic lens. I love to eat hot & spicy food and your lens gives me enough infos. Thanks! Posted June 19, 2008 |
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indiamarks
Great lens you have here. I have a site called www.indiamarks.com...which is like a wiki for everything India. It would be nice if you could share some of this stuff there and you can always link back and drive traffic to you lens! Posted May 30, 2008 |
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PolkaDotsAndPaisley
I love indian food! All of the spices really make eating vegetables a treat. I agree with mulberry about korma..mmmm! Nice Lens. Posted February 24, 2008 |
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