Recipes

Cook with the ghaani

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

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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Rava Kesari, a warm saffron-orange rava kesari, soft and glossy
Festive Sweet

Rava Kesari

Glossy orange, soft enough to fall off the spoon, with fried cashews on top and ghee sitting in a thin shine on...

Prep 10 min Cook 25 min Serves 6

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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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Rava Dosa, a large paper-thin rava dosa on a black iron tawa
Breakfast

Rava Dosa

Thin, brittle, full of holes and gold at the edges, so crisp it crackles when you fold it off the tawa and...

Prep 15 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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

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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Dhuska, three golden deep-fried dhuska
Breakfast

Dhuska

The batter hits hot oil and swells into a puffed golden disc in seconds, crisp all around the rim and soft in...

Prep 20 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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Puttu with Kadala Curry, a warm white cylinder of steamed puttu on a banana leaf
Breakfast

Puttu with Kadala Curry

A warm white cylinder of puttu that crumbles at a touch, and a dark, thick black chana curry that smells of roasted...

Prep 20 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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Punjabi Samosa, three large triangular samosas with smooth pale-golden matte shells
Snack

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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Dalma, a thick golden-yellow dal with visible chunks of orange pumpkin half dissolved
Lunch

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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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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Dal Makhani, near-black glossy lentil curry, thick enough to hold ladle marks
Dinner

Dal Makhani

Black urad dal simmered until it turns dark, thick and faintly smoky, with butter sliding across the top and a slow swirl...

Prep 20 min Cook 150 min Serves 4

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Pav Bhaji, a deep red-brown mashed vegetable bhaji glossy with melted fat in a wide steel plate
Dinner

Pav Bhaji

Dark red bhaji, glossy at the edges, with a yellow cube sliding off the top. The pav goes down face first in...

Prep 25 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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

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

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
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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Palak Paneer, vivid deep green spinach gravy with soft white paneer cubes half sunk in it
Dinner

Palak Paneer

Spinach so green it looks lit from inside, soft white paneer cubes sitting in it, and ginger and garlic still sizzling in...

Prep 15 min Cook 25 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
Lunch

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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Murukku, a pile of pale golden thenkuzhal murukku coils
Snack

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

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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Motichoor Ladoo, eight saffron-orange ladoos made of countless tiny soft boondi pearls
Festive Sweet

Motichoor Ladoo

Break one open and it falls into hundreds of tiny sugar-soaked pearls, still soft, smelling of ghee and cardamom.

Prep 30 min Cook 45 min Serves 8

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Chhena Poda, a very dark, almost blackened cracked top crust
Festive Sweet

Chhena Poda

The top burns almost black and cracks under a spoon. Under it the chhena is warm, moist and grainy, sitting on a...

Prep 40 min Cook 60 min Serves 8

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