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Red Currant Jam with Jaggery & Kirsch

October 11, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

Alana and I made this red currant jam together (thanks Alana for taking all of the photos too!). We got these red currants in our CSA. If you haven’t had them before, they are juicy, really tart and have a little seed.

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Posted in Chutneys & Pickles, Gluten-Free, Recipes Index, Summer, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged David Lebovitz, jam, red currants | Comments Off

ABCDs is on Gojee!

September 14, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

If you have not visited Gojee already, go go go to Gojee! Gojee selects recipes from food bloggers (like me!) and presents them in a really visual and beautiful way. The interface is super simple too. You just type in an ingredient that you have and then you scroll through these huge, awesome photos of recipes. When you click thru on one, it takes you to the recipe on the food blogger’s site it came from.

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Cabbage Palya (South Indian Stir Fry)

September 12, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

Cabbage palya is a South Indian stir fry. To make it you only need a few spices, which I recommend buying at the Indian store – black mustard seeds, ground hing (asafoetida), dried red chili, curry leaves (dry or fresh), urad dal (with no skin) and chana dal. Once you have these ingredients, you can apply them to a number of different vegetables (beets, green beans), rices, yogurt and salad dishes. This stir fry just takes minutes to prepare.

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Posted in Autumn, Dinner, Easy, Favorites, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Recipes Index, Sides, South Indian, Stir-Fry, Summer, Vegan, Vegetarian, Winter | Tagged cabbage, chana dal, curry, farm share, palya, south indian recipe, stir fry, urad dal, vegan | 3 Comments

The Spice Route: Nithya Das on Mustard Seeds

September 7, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

On this Spice Route, I’m happy to introduce my friend Nithya who writes one of my favorite food blogs, Hungry Desi. She also just launched Half Pint Gourmet, a site of recipes for kids written by parents. Nithya is going to introduce you to mustard seeds, a spice that is used frequently in Indian dishes and pops when you cook them!

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Posted in Autumn, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Mains, Recipes Index, Soups & Dals, South Indian, Summer, Vegan, Vegetarian | Tagged Half Pint Gourmet, Hungri Desi, mustard seeds, Nithya Das, rasam | 1 Comment

Majjige Huli (Cucumber Yogurt Curry)

August 28, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

I’m so excited to share this recipe from my Aunt Karen, whose son, Pradeep, actually shared a beet recipe on the site a couple weeks back. Her majjige huli (pronounced mudge-a-gay hool-i) recipe is one that she learned from my grandmother in Bangalore and has tweaked over the years. I had a taste of it at Thanksgiving last year and couldn’t get enough so I’ve asked her to share it here.

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Posted in Curry, Dinner, Gluten-Free, Lunch, Recipes Index, South Indian, Summer, Vegetarian, Yogurts | Tagged majjige huli, south indian recipe, vegetarian | Comments Off

Kalonji (Nigella Seed) Potatoes

August 28, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

In my CSA, I received a pound of Red Norland potatoes, which I found out are small red potatoes with a thin red skin and white flesh. I wanted to make a curry out of them with a spice I’ve been using a lot called kalonji, which is also sometimes called nigella seed or black caraway seed.

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Posted in Autumn, Curry, Dinner, Easy, Favorites, Gluten-Free, North Indian, Recipes Index, Sides, Stir-Fry, Vegetarian, Winter | Tagged curry, kalonji, nigella seeds, potato | 2 Comments

The Spice Route: David Klopfenstein on Black Pepper

August 10, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

I first met Dave at Food Obstructions where I was blown away by his risotto ball dish – I still think about them! He has a really inventive style of cooking using seasonal ingredients and you can find more about it at Dave’s Kitchen. I’m happy to have him on The Spice Route. Get ready to learn a lot you didn’t know about black pepper and get a really delicious recipe too!

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