Recipes

Cook with the ghaani

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

Thalipeeth, one thick hand-patted multigrain flatbread, deep brown with dark speckled blisters and a crisp uneven rim
Breakfast

Thalipeeth

Patted thin by hand, cooked till the edges go dark and crisp, and eaten the minute a knob of white butter starts...

Prep 20 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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Shankarpali, a heap of small pale golden diamond-shaped fried sweets with flaky broken edges
Snack

Shankarpali

Small sweet diamonds that snap between your fingers and shatter on the first bite, with the smell of warm ghee still on...

Prep 25 min Cook 40 min Serves 8

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Sabudana Vada, five deep-golden craggy patties with a rough blistered surface
Snack

Sabudana Vada

A rough golden shell you can hear break, then soft sago inside with halves of crushed peanut in it. Cold thick curd...

Prep 20 min Cook 25 min Serves 4

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Gujiya, a pile of pale wheat-gold half-moon pastries with a twisted rope edge and a finely blistered surface
Festive Sweet

Gujiya

The shell breaks into blistered shards and the mawa inside is warm, grainy and sweet, with dry coconut and cardamom right behind...

Prep 60 min Cook 45 min Serves 18

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Dahi Vada, plump pale golden urad dal vadas sitting low in thick chilled white curd on a wide steel plate
Snack

Dahi Vada

Press one gently with a spoon and chilled sweet curd runs out of it. Roasted jeera, dark tamarind chutney and a dusting...

Prep 30 min Cook 30 min Serves 6

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Glassy amber jaggery peanut chikki snapped into rough pieces on a brass plate
Festive Sweet

Peanut Chikki

Roasted groundnuts set into glassy amber jaggery, rolled thin and snapped into rough pieces. Two real ingredients and about ninety seconds that...

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 20

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Steamed pleated modak on a banana leaf, one open showing coconut jaggery filling
Festive Sweet

Ukadiche Modak

A steamed shell thin enough to see the filling through, tearing at the first press, with warm coconut and jaggery inside and...

Prep 40 min Cook 30 min Serves 12

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Small sesame and jaggery ladoos piled in a copper bowl, one broken open
Festive Sweet

Tilgul Ladoo

Roasted til and melted gud pressed into small warm ladoos that crunch and then give way. Handed around on Sankranti with the...

Prep 10 min Cook 20 min Serves 18

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Spicy sprouted matki usal under farsan, onion and lemon, served with soft pav
Breakfast

Misal Pav

Sprouted matki under a layer of red kat that floats a slick of chilli oil on top, buried in farsan and raw...

Prep 25 min Cook 45 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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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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Kanda poha with peanuts, sev and a lemon wedge on a steel plate, with a glass of chai
Breakfast

Maharashtrian Kanda Poha

Mustard seeds popping, peanuts turning gold, onions going soft and sweet, then poha folded through until every flake is yellow. Lemon at...

Prep 15 min Cook 15 min Serves 3

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Crispy onion bhajiya on a steel plate with green chutney and a cup of chai by a rainy window
Snack

Crispy Onion Bhajiya (Kanda Bhaji)

Ragged, lacy onion bhajiya straight out of the kadhai, hissing on the plate, with green chutney and a cup of chai. The...

Prep 15 min Cook 20 min Serves 4

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