Recipes

Cook with the ghaani

Everyday Indian recipes, made with Truly Cold Pressed oils and bilona ghee.

Soft rolled crepes filled with coconut and jaggery, arranged warm on a plate
Festive Sweet

Patishapta

Thin soft crepes rolled around a warm coconut and jaggery filling, cooked on a pan wiped with ghee. They rarely survive the...

Prep 75 min Cook 40 min Serves 6

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Golden chana dal with fried coconut slivers and raisins, served in a small brass katori
Lunch

Cholar Dal

Soft chana dal, gently sweet, warm with cinnamon and clove, with crisp gold coconut slivers through it and a spoon of ghee...

Prep 15 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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Golden khichuri with cauliflower, potato and cashews, melted ghee shining, served on a leaf plate
Lunch

Bhoger Khichuri

Roasted moong dal and short fragrant gobindobhog rice cooked soft with cauliflower, potato and peas, finished with ghee off the heat. No...

Prep 25 min Cook 45 min Serves 5

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Golden porous Mysore pak cut into neat diamonds and stacked on a festive plate
Festive Sweet

Mysore Pak

Golden, porous, honeycombed, collapsing the moment it touches your tongue. Three ingredients, one hot kadhai, and one moment you cannot afford to...

Prep 10 min Cook 30 min Serves 16

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Pale milky shukto with potato, drumstick and bitter gourd in a bell metal bowl
Lunch

Shukto

A pale, milky, gently bitter vegetable stew that opens a Bengali meal. Mustard and poppy paste, a little coconut, and a spoon...

Prep 25 min Cook 35 min Serves 4

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Glassy sabudana pearls with potato cubes and crushed peanuts in a clay bowl
Breakfast

Sabudana Khichdi

Glassy separate pearls, coarse crushed peanuts, soft potato cubes and a squeeze of lemon. Not one sticky lump, which is the only...

Prep 15 min Cook 15 min Serves 3

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Round grainy wheat and ghee laddoos studded with almonds and pistachios on a bronze plate
Festive Sweet

Atta Pinni

Wheat flour roasted in ghee for twenty-five minutes, puffed gond, plenty of nuts and dark jaggery, pressed into balls while still warm....

Prep 20 min Cook 45 min Serves 18

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Golden puran poli torn open to show its jaggery dal filling, with melted ghee
Festive Sweet

Puran Poli

A poli rolled so thin you can almost see the sweet chana dal filling through it, roasted till golden spotted, with ghee...

Prep 45 min Cook 50 min Serves 8

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Golden malpua with crisp lacy edges soaked in dark jaggery syrup, served warm
Festive Sweet

Malpua

Lacy frilled edges, a soft middle, and the deep caramel of jaggery worked into the batter instead of a syrup. Fried in...

Prep 15 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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Dark rajma curry ladled over steamed basmati rice in a steel thali
Lunch

Punjabi Rajma Chawal

Beans cooked until they squash between two fingers, in a dark glossy onion-tomato gravy thickened by mashing a spoonful against the pan....

Prep 20 min Cook 65 min Serves 4

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Baked sattu-stuffed litti cracked open over ghee, served beside smoky roasted brinjal chokha
Dinner

Litti Chokha

Wheat balls stuffed with spiced sattu, baked till blistered, cracked open in your palm and dunked in ghee, with a rough smoky...

Prep 40 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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Stack of golden aloo parathas torn open, melting butter on top, curd and pickle beside
Breakfast

Punjabi Aloo Paratha

A thin paratha with crisp brown ghee spots, torn open to soft spiced potato inside, eaten with cold white butter sliding off...

Prep 35 min Cook 25 min Serves 4

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Sukhdi cut into diamonds on a steel thali, topped with almonds and pistachios
Festive Sweet

Sukhdi (Gud Papdi)

Wheat flour roasted in ghee till it smells like toasted biscuits, jaggery stirred in off the flame, pressed into a thali and...

Prep 5 min Cook 20 min Serves 20

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Dal tadka in a copper handi with a sizzling ghee tadka being poured on top
Dinner

Dal Tadka with a Second Tadka (Dhaba Style)

Soft yellow dal, then a small pan of garlic and red chilli ghee tipped over it at the table. It hisses, the...

Prep 10 min Cook 35 min Serves 4

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Besan laddoo topped with pistachio on a brass plate, with a lit diya behind
Festive Sweet

Besan Laddoo

Besan roasted slow in ghee until it turns the colour of wet sand and runs like batter. Grainy, rich, cardamom-warm, and the...

Prep 10 min Cook 30 min Serves 16

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