Before you think I’ve fallen off my lifelong (21 year old) vegetarian wagon, please allow me to explain that this recipe contains neither spring chicks, nor babies. It does in fact contain spring onions, chickpea flour and baby turnips, so it’s all good. This quick and simple recipe is a great everyday Gujarati favourite in …
I’m ecstatic to deliver you a KO Rasoi guest recipe! I am so proud to tell you that this recipe was written and passed on to me by my dear mummy (to me, the best cook in the world!) Having learned from her father, who was a wonderful chef, she has been cooking with so …
Yeah, so here’s where I go on and on about how much I love Thai food again. This time I’m bringing to you my version of Massaman curry. It is a popular dish in many Thai restaurants (I should know- I’ve been to way too many!) which I believe was created by Thai Muslims (hence the …
This is my entry into Shama from Easy2Cook Recipes’ ‘First Cooked Event’. I have never participated in such a competition and really don’t know how to go about it, but all I am hoping for is that people enjoy my recipe. It is one of the first ever dishes I cooked (properly!) and that just …
Tindora (pronounced: tin-doH-raH) a.k.a ‘Coccinia Grandis’ are little fruits which resemble ‘gentleman’s toes’ (compare to ladies fingers). Sounds delicous already, huh? You can thank Wikipedia for that little nugget of information- excuse the pun. In my recipe the tindora are deep fried (mmm healthy). I’m really not selling this to you am I? But honestly, …
My second okra (‘bhinda’ in Gujarati, pronounced: BHin-DaH) recipe is a traditional ‘stir-fried’ curry as opposed to the first recipe I shared with you which was a creation of my own. This is the way my family and I usually eat okra at home, simply with chapattis (‘rotli’). Even my dad (a former okra hater) …
This time it’s a traditional ridge gourd (turia: pronounced tu-ri-ya) curry. This is a curry made predominantly by Gujarati Indians, however many Indian sub-cultures have their own versions of ridge gourd dishes. Here is the recipe for how my Gujarati family cook turia. Hmm… pretty ugly to look at, but I can assure you that …
