Recipes

Cook with the ghaani

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

Saunf Mishri Mukhwas, an open shallow brass bowl of saunf mishri mukhwas on a dark weathered wooden table
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Saunf Mishri Mukhwas

The saunf cracks first, green and sharp. The mishri holds on a second longer and turns the whole mouthful sweet just as...

Prep 10 min Cook 12 min Serves 20

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Vada Pav, two soft ladi pav pressed shut around a craggy deep-golden besan-coated potato vada
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Vada Pav

Crunch first, then soft hot potato, then the dry garlic chutney catching the back of your throat. Eight rupees of Mumbai, in...

Prep 40 min Cook 35 min Serves 8

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Kerala Banana Chips, a heap of wafer-thin pale straw-yellow Kerala banana chips
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Kerala Banana Chips (Upperi)

Wafer-thin pale yellow rounds fried in coconut oil, salted the Kerala way with a spoon of salt water, and so crisp they...

Prep 20 min Cook 30 min Serves 6

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Shankarpali, a heap of small pale golden diamond-shaped fried sweets with flaky broken edges
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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
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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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Ghugni, plump soft white peas and small potato cubes in a thin dark brown gravy
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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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Punjabi Samosa, three large triangular samosas with smooth pale-golden matte shells
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Punjabi Samosa

The crust cracks under your thumb and drops flakes down your shirt. Inside, coarse potato with crushed coriander seed and a sour...

Prep 45 min Cook 40 min Serves 6

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Pani Puri, a row of crisp hollow pale golden rava puris
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Pani Puri

You crack the top, spoon in potato, dunk it in cold green pani and put the whole thing in at once. Sharp,...

Prep 60 min Cook 40 min Serves 6

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Dahi Vada, plump pale golden urad dal vadas sitting low in thick chilled white curd on a wide steel plate
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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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Murukku, a pile of pale golden thenkuzhal murukku coils
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Murukku (Thenkuzhal)

Pale gold coils that shatter at the first bite, with cumin through them and the clean nutty smell of sesame oil still...

Prep 25 min Cook 35 min Serves 8

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Beguni, five long beguni fritters
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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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Khandvi, a row of pale yellow silky besan rolls the thickness of a pencil, tightly coiled and glossy
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Khandvi

Pale yellow rolls the thickness of a pencil, soft enough to give way at the first bite, with mustard seeds and sesame...

Prep 15 min Cook 25 min Serves 4

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Deep brown ridged thekua piled on a brass plate beside a clay diya
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Thekua

Dark, dense, jaggery-sweet biscuits with fennel and coconut through them, fried low and slow until they snap. Chhath keeps them, but they...

Prep 30 min Cook 40 min Serves 20

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Yellow khaman squares topped with grated coconut and coriander, served with green chutney
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Khaman Dhokla

Bright yellow squares so light they wobble, soaked in a sweet mustard and green chilli tempering, with coconut and coriander scattered thick...

Prep 15 min Cook 20 min Serves 4

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