Indian food is easy to cook, but the difficulty westerners have with it is finding the ingredients and integrating the spices into their cooking. The latter is easy to fix with practice, but all...
Indian food is easy to cook, but the difficulty westerners have with it is finding the ingredients and integrating the spices into their cooking. The latter is easy to fix with practice, but all of the dishes they covered required spices you can't find in a typical US grocery store.
That being said, everyone should be making these dishes. Don't just try it, make it every day. They're all just that good.
Luckily, I live in a relatively small town, but we have an Indian market. It’s extremely easy for me to get the ingredients I need. So I guess I have no excuse to not start exploring Indian food.
Luckily, I live in a relatively small town, but we have an Indian market. It’s extremely easy for me to get the ingredients I need.
So I guess I have no excuse to not start exploring Indian food.
Yeah, acquiring the traditional spices is definitely the hardest (and most expensive) part at first... but once you build up a decent spice cabinet with them in it, it gets a lot easier from...
Yeah, acquiring the traditional spices is definitely the hardest (and most expensive) part at first... but once you build up a decent spice cabinet with them in it, it gets a lot easier from there. Though paneer is also basically impossible to find commercially where I live, but Feta is a decent enough substitute for it IMO, and is especially tasty in Saag!
I'm a Westerner (Italian-Canadian) but absolutely love Indian food, and so do my parents, so we make a bunch of Indian dishes for ourselves once a month or so. I would definitely eat it far more often (and did when I lived in the UK) but that's a harder sell for my parents, who prefer to eat it only occasionally. ;)
Making paneer yourself is fairly easy . We Indians do it quite often. If recall correctly as little as milk and lime juice should suffice (the final structural integrity may leave something to be...
Making paneer yourself is fairly easy . We Indians do it quite often. If recall correctly as little as milk and lime juice should suffice (the final structural integrity may leave something to be desired however). I wish I could help you more, but it's my mother who's the expert. I'm sure something should turn on YouTube.
Heh, yeah I know it's supposedly pretty easy to make at home, and I may try it one day... but TBH the idea doesn't really appeal to me all that much, especially since I already always have feta in...
Heh, yeah I know it's supposedly pretty easy to make at home, and I may try it one day... but TBH the idea doesn't really appeal to me all that much, especially since I already always have feta in my fridge and it's pretty great in saag anyways! :P
Making paneer is definitely the easiest part of making a dish with paneer. I've done it hundreds of times, literally minutes of input. I can see how you can say feta is usable, but it really is...
Making paneer is definitely the easiest part of making a dish with paneer. I've done it hundreds of times, literally minutes of input. I can see how you can say feta is usable, but it really is not a substitute.
For anyone interested in cooking Indian, I could not recommend this cookbook more: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Krishnas-Cuisine-Vegetarian-Cooking/dp/0525245642 It is a straight forward,...
For anyone interested in cooking Indian, I could not recommend this cookbook more: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Krishnas-Cuisine-Vegetarian-Cooking/dp/0525245642 It is a straight forward, comprehensive, can't go wrong resource. It is aryuvedic, which means that it us vegetarian, but also doesn't use onions or garlic. The lack of onions and garlic was completely foreign to me at first, being Midwestern German-American, but learning the vocabulary of Indian spices without those was mind blowing
what a great episode! I don't have anything of value to add — but this is a great demo for how easy cooking good indian food at home is.
Indian food is easy to cook, but the difficulty westerners have with it is finding the ingredients and integrating the spices into their cooking. The latter is easy to fix with practice, but all of the dishes they covered required spices you can't find in a typical US grocery store.
That being said, everyone should be making these dishes. Don't just try it, make it every day. They're all just that good.
Luckily, I live in a relatively small town, but we have an Indian market. It’s extremely easy for me to get the ingredients I need.
So I guess I have no excuse to not start exploring Indian food.
Yeah, acquiring the traditional spices is definitely the hardest (and most expensive) part at first... but once you build up a decent spice cabinet with them in it, it gets a lot easier from there. Though paneer is also basically impossible to find commercially where I live, but Feta is a decent enough substitute for it IMO, and is especially tasty in Saag!
I'm a Westerner (Italian-Canadian) but absolutely love Indian food, and so do my parents, so we make a bunch of Indian dishes for ourselves once a month or so. I would definitely eat it far more often (and did when I lived in the UK) but that's a harder sell for my parents, who prefer to eat it only occasionally. ;)
Making paneer yourself is fairly easy . We Indians do it quite often. If recall correctly as little as milk and lime juice should suffice (the final structural integrity may leave something to be desired however). I wish I could help you more, but it's my mother who's the expert. I'm sure something should turn on YouTube.
Heh, yeah I know it's supposedly pretty easy to make at home, and I may try it one day... but TBH the idea doesn't really appeal to me all that much, especially since I already always have feta in my fridge and it's pretty great in saag anyways! :P
Yeah, I see what you mean. It's funny, finding feta here is damn near impossible.
Making paneer is definitely the easiest part of making a dish with paneer. I've done it hundreds of times, literally minutes of input. I can see how you can say feta is usable, but it really is not a substitute.
For anyone interested in cooking Indian, I could not recommend this cookbook more: https://www.amazon.com/Lord-Krishnas-Cuisine-Vegetarian-Cooking/dp/0525245642 It is a straight forward, comprehensive, can't go wrong resource. It is aryuvedic, which means that it us vegetarian, but also doesn't use onions or garlic. The lack of onions and garlic was completely foreign to me at first, being Midwestern German-American, but learning the vocabulary of Indian spices without those was mind blowing