Recipes

Cook with the ghaani

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

Gujarati Kadhi, a pale golden thin yogurt curry in a small steel katori, steam rising
Lunch

Gujarati Kadhi

Pale gold, thin enough to drink, sweet then sour in the same spoonful, with curry leaves and a slick of ghee floating...

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 4

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Rasam, a traditional tin eeya chombu filled with thin amber-brown rasam
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Rasam

Thin, hot, sour and peppery. It froths up once at the edges, you switch off, and the ghee tempering goes in with...

Prep 10 min Cook 25 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
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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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Dalma, a thick golden-yellow dal with visible chunks of orange pumpkin half dissolved
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Dalma

Toor dal cooked soft with pumpkin and raw banana, a ghee tempering of panch phoron poured in hot, and roasted cumin and...

Prep 20 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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Dal Baati Churma, four round cracked wheat baati, deep golden with split tops
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Dal Baati Churma

A cracked baati split open and drowned in ghee, spicy panchmel dal poured over, and coarse sweet churma waiting on the side...

Prep 40 min Cook 60 min Serves 4

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Curd Rice, cool white curd rice heaped in a shallow steel bowl, soft and slightly loose, with black mustard seeds
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Curd Rice (Thayir Sadam)

Cool, soft, faintly sour rice with mustard seeds and crisp curry leaves through it, and one bite of mango pickle on the...

Prep 10 min Cook 25 min Serves 4

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Chole Bhature, one huge golden bhatura still ballooned and blistered, torn open at the edge with steam escaping
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Chole Bhature

A bhatura the size of a plate, still ballooned, tearing open with a rush of steam over a bowl of near-black chole.

Prep 30 min Cook 60 min Serves 4

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Bisi Bele Bath, a generous mound of thick brick-orange bisi bele bath in a heavy brass vessel, visible cubes of carrot
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Bisi Bele Bath

Thick, hot, tamarind-sour rice and dal in one pot, with a spoon of ghee melting a slow yellow hole in the middle...

Prep 25 min Cook 45 min Serves 4

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Aloo Gobhi, turmeric-yellow cauliflower florets with dark caramelised edges and thick potato wedges crisped at the
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Aloo Gobhi

Cauliflower with dark gold edges, potatoes gone crisp at the corners, turmeric clinging to everything and mustard oil sharp in the background.

Prep 15 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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Dark glossy tamarind rice with peanuts and curry leaves, served with crisp papad
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Puliyodarai (Tamarind Rice)

Dark, glossy, sour rice with crunchy peanuts and chana dal through it, resting in a covered vessel while the flavour settles. It...

Prep 20 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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Mixed vegetable undhiyu with stuffed brinjals, yam and muthiya in a clay pot
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Undhiyu

Papdi, purple yam, baby brinjals and methi muthiya stuffed with green masala and steamed under a lid until everything is soft but...

Prep 50 min Cook 55 min Serves 6

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Golden chana dal with fried coconut slivers and raisins, served in a small brass katori
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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
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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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Pale milky shukto with potato, drumstick and bitter gourd in a bell metal bowl
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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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Golden sambar with drumstick and brinjal, served with soft idlis and coconut chutney
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Sambar

Soft toor dal, drumstick, small onions and tamarind, with a sesame oil tadka poured in and the lid clapped on so none...

Prep 15 min Cook 35 min Serves 4

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Dark glossy chickpea curry topped with ginger juliennes and green chillies, served with bhature
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Amritsari Chole

Chickpeas boiled dark with tea and amla, then simmered into a thick, glossy, near-black masala sharp with anardana and amchur. Kulcha, raw...

Prep 20 min Cook 70 min Serves 4

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Dark rajma curry ladled over steamed basmati rice in a steel thali
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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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Creamy potato cubes in poppy seed paste served in a bowl with steamed rice
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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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Thick yellow kadhi with onion pakoras and red chilli tadka, served with rice
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Punjabi Kadhi Pakora

Thick yellow kadhi simmered for the better part of an hour, soft onion pakoras dropped in to drink it up, and a...

Prep 20 min Cook 55 min Serves 4

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Beetroot and sprouted moong salad in a ceramic bowl with a small bottle of flaxseed oil
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Beetroot & Sprout Salad with Flaxseed-Lemon Dressing

Beetroot turns the whole bowl pink. Sprouts snap, cucumber is cold, peanuts crack between the teeth, and a raw flaxseed and lemon...

Prep 15 min Cook 20 min Serves 2

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Kerala cabbage thoran with grated coconut in a clay bowl, served with red matta rice
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Kerala Cabbage Thoran

Cabbage cut fine, cooked just past raw, tossed with coconut crushed with garlic and cumin, and a spoon of raw coconut oil...

Prep 15 min Cook 15 min Serves 4

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Lemon rice with peanuts and curry leaves on a banana leaf, with a small bowl of sesame oil
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Sesame Oil Lemon Rice

Every grain turned yellow, studded with crunchy dals and peanuts, sharp with lemon and warm with sesame oil. It tastes better an...

Prep 10 min Cook 15 min Serves 3

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Gujarati dal dhokli simmering in a brass kadhai, with a bowl of ghee on the side
Lunch

Gujarati Dal Dhokli

Soft wheat diamonds simmered right in a sweet, sour, spiced toor dal until they swell and go slippery. One pot, one bowl,...

Prep 25 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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