Recipes

Cook with the ghaani

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

Ghugni, plump soft white peas and small potato cubes in a thin dark brown gravy
Snack

Ghugni

Soft white peas in a thin dark gravy, a squeeze of tamarind, raw onion and bhaja masala over the top, eaten hot...

Prep 15 min Cook 45 min Serves 4

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Dhokar Dalna, six golden-brown diamond-shaped chana dal cakes half submerged in a glossy orange-brown gravy
Lunch

Dhokar Dalna

Golden diamonds of fried chana dal, crisp at the corners, sitting in a ginger and tomato gravy that they slowly drink up...

Prep 30 min Cook 50 min Serves 4

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Phulkopir Dalna, large cauliflower florets browned gold at the edges and big chunks of potato sitting in a thin glossy
Dinner

Phulkopir Dalna

Cauliflower fried gold at the edges, potatoes cut big, and a light ginger gravy that goes red at the sides of the...

Prep 20 min Cook 35 min Serves 4

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Beguni, five long beguni fritters
Snack

Beguni

A thin slice of brinjal in a lacy golden crust that cracks when you bite it, the inside gone soft and creamy,...

Prep 15 min Cook 20 min Serves 4

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Luchi with Aloor Dom, four puffed white luchi, pale and unbrowned
Breakfast

Luchi with Aloor Dom

The luchi swells into a white balloon in eight seconds. Beside it, small potatoes sit dented and dark in a mustard oil...

Prep 30 min Cook 45 min Serves 4

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Bhoger Labra, a thick mixed vegetable stew in deep orange and gold, chunks of pumpkin half collapsed, wedges of potato
Side Dish

Bhoger Labra

Panch phoron pops in smoking mustard oil, then eight vegetables go in and slowly collapse into one another until the pumpkin sweetens...

Prep 25 min Cook 45 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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Creamy jaggery rice payesh in an earthen bowl, finished with chopped nuts
Festive Sweet

Nolen Gurer Payesh

Milk cooked down slowly with short fragrant gobindobhog rice, jaggery folded in off the heat, and fried cashews on top. Warm in...

Prep 35 min Cook 50 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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Thick fried brinjal rounds with crisp caramel edges, served on a banana leaf with rice
Side Dish

Begun Bhaja

Thick brinjal rounds rubbed with turmeric and chilli, fried in smoking mustard oil until the edges go dark gold and the middle...

Prep 10 min Cook 15 min Serves 4

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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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Creamy potato cubes in poppy seed paste served in a bowl with steamed rice
Lunch

Aloo Posto

Pale, creamy poppy seed paste clinging to soft potato cubes, two whole green chillies sitting on top, and a raw spoon of...

Prep 15 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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