My Great Aunt’s Chana Masala in Hetty McKinnon’s Family Cookbook + Giveaway

Chana Masala
photo by Luisa Brimble

I am so excited to share that my good friend Hetty McKinnon just came out with her 3rd beautiful cookbook Family which not only includes Hetty’s own recipes but family recipes from friends (including me!!). A recipe inspired by my Great Aunt’s Chana Masala appears in the book beautifully shot by award-winning food photographer Luisa Brimble.

I am a huge fan of Hetty’s work and was drawn to her instantly the first time we met. She exudes warmth and is literally a culinary wizard. She is also vegetarian like me and so I love that I can always find something to make in her cookbooks or on her blog. She invited a group of us over just last week to celebrate the launch with a most delicious lunch filled with recipes from the book. This book is a gem from Hetty’s gozleme, pillowy flatbread filled with delicious greens and halloumi to her cabbage and carrot vermicelli slaw with tofu and lemon-poppyseed dressing. I’m drooling just thinking about them!

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Hetty and Luisa came by our place to share in a meal of chana masala, parathas and yogurt raita which is captured in Family.  Alok was so young. I remember he fell asleep for most of the shoot in his stroller that everyone took turns to slowly rock. He got up just in time to make a cameo appearance.

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I love my Great Aunt Kumud so much and am thankful for Hetty for including her recipe in the book.  It is a Punjabi style of making chana masala with tea and warming spices. This is Kumud in her Delhi apt showing me how to make garam masala that is used in the recipe. I have adapted the recipe for a busy home cook with canned chickpeas. Sometimes, I cook the dry chickpeas in my Instant Pot and then flavor them using the below recipe.

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I’m so happy to offer a giveaway of Hetty’s book Family and three of my achaars at Brooklyn Delhi, which any go wonderfully with this recipe. In order to enter to win, just leave a comment below or on the post on Instagram about your favorite family recipe.

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photo by Luisa Brimble

 

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4 Responses to My Great Aunt’s Chana Masala in Hetty McKinnon’s Family Cookbook + Giveaway

  1. Mindy Borchardt says:

    This is a must try for me–some exciting, unexpected seasonings Meals in our family were always quite simple except for Christmas cookies. My grandmother made the best toffee bars (just a bit different from the usual recipe, but much better) which I still make every Christmas.

  2. Vinita Navani says:

    Looks so yummy. My favorite family recipe is our traditional Sindhi curry. Every weekend it had to made. Now here in US it is a tradition in my family to make every long weekend.

  3. Carolsue says:

    I love Indian food, and my favorite is Matar Paneer! I guess our own family’s traditional recipe would be Gołąbki, Stuffed Cabbage
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  4. Tab says:

    I made this tonight. My bf said he wished I hadn’t used canned chickpeas since he likes it to be crunchier, but I absolutely loved the texture. I’ll be making another batch of this asap to take to work because it is just delicious. I even got my picky 7 year old to try it and eat more than one bite. She didn’t love it, but she is 7 and picky, but she actually ate it which was a huge thing since normally if things don’t look like mac n cheese or breaded chicken she’ll just turn up her nose and make gagging noises till we send her to bed.
    We served this with naan bread and no cilantro since it slipped my mind to pick it up.

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