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Pairing Wines With Indian Food

March 17, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

For this post, I am going to have my very first guest blogger, Lizzy Esqueda of the Brooklyn Winery, discuss how she went about pairing wines with the Indian supper I prepared. There is not a lot of information out there on this pairing so I am very excited to share Lizzy’s insight on the topic. Here’s what she had to say.

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An ABCDs Supper @ Brooklyn Winery

March 10, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

This past Sunday, I held an Indian supper for 30 paired with wines at the Brooklyn Winery. It was a really great experience to work with Jenesy and Lizzy at the winery to understand which wines complement the flavors of Indian cooking as there is not many resources out there with regards to this sort of pairing. Lizzy will actually be a guest on my next post about the topic.

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ABCDs is going to SXSW!

March 9, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

This week, I’ll be heading to SXSW in Austin (first time!) with my buddy Jas from Plato Putas to co-chair a session on Food & Technology – How Technology Is Revolutionizing the Way We Eat. This session is a core conversation which means that everyone in the audience is invited to contribute and participate in the discussion.

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Kapoor’s in Delhi

February 18, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

So when I was in Delhi, I did eat a ton of food, but I have to say Kapoor’s was most memorable. This place is one of my great aunt Kumud’s favorites and it’s obvious from how the owner dotes on her that she is a regular. The restaurant is roadside and quite close by to where she lives in Malviya Nagar.

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My Great Aunt’s Garam Masala

February 10, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

When I was in Delhi, I took a crash course in North Indian cooking with my grandmother, great aunt and their cook, Ramesh. We must have prepared 20 recipes in the course of 5 days…and we had planned for more even. I will share a few of these on the site in the coming posts. The first recipe is for garam masala, which many people know as the Indian all spice.

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New Cooking Video: Yellow Peanut Rice

January 20, 2011 Chitra Agrawal

Me, Alana and Paul just made a new cooking video on yellow peanut rice, a South Indian dish from Bangalore, flavored with lemon, coconut & fried peanuts, dals and spices. The actual name for the dish is chitranna (no relation to me!) and means “mixed rice.” Многие предварительно ищут информацию о заведении, читают о казино Вавада отзывы.

The rice goes well with these dishes: spinach raita, palak paneer, green beens palya, sambar, saru. You can find the written out recipe on this post. Enjoy and let me know if you have any questions.