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

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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Golden porous Mysore pak cut into neat diamonds and stacked on a festive plate
Festive Sweet

Mysore Pak

Golden, porous, honeycombed, collapsing the moment it touches your tongue. Three ingredients, one hot kadhai, and one moment you cannot afford to...

Prep 10 min Cook 30 min Serves 16

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Chilled spiced thandai in brass tumblers topped with pistachios and saffron strands
Drink

Thandai

Cold thick milk ground with almonds, fennel, poppy seeds and black pepper, strained twice through muslin until it is completely smooth. Holi...

Prep 25 min Cook 10 min Serves 4

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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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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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Smoky mashed brinjal glistening with mustard oil, topped with coriander in a black clay bowl
Dinner

Baingan Bharta

Brinjal blackened whole on the flame until it collapses, peeled and mashed rough, cooked down with onion and tomato in sharp mustard...

Prep 15 min Cook 35 min Serves 4

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Soft spiced methi theplas stacked warm, served with thick curd and mango pickle
Breakfast

Methi Thepla

Soft, thin, speckled green flatbreads that stay tender for two days in a dabba. Slightly bitter from fresh methi, warm with ajwain,...

Prep 20 min Cook 25 min Serves 4

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Golden sambar with drumstick and brinjal, served with soft idlis and coconut chutney
Lunch

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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Mixed vegetable batons in a pale coconut and cumin coating, heaped in a brass uruli
Side Dish

Avial

Vegetables cut into thick fingers, cooked just soft, held in a coarse coconut and cumin paste, with raw coconut oil poured over...

Prep 25 min Cook 25 min Serves 6

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Crisp golden urad dal vadas served hot with sambar and coconut chutney
Breakfast

Medu Vada

Dark gold and craggy outside, white and airy inside, dropped hot into sambar or eaten with coconut chutney. The crunch only lasts...

Prep 20 min Cook 25 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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Round grainy wheat and ghee laddoos studded with almonds and pistachios on a bronze plate
Festive Sweet

Atta Pinni

Wheat flour roasted in ghee for twenty-five minutes, puffed gond, plenty of nuts and dark jaggery, pressed into balls while still warm....

Prep 20 min Cook 45 min Serves 18

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Crisp golden dosa wrapped around potato bhaji, served with sambar and coconut chutney
Breakfast

Masala Dosa with Potato Bhaji

A ladle of batter meets an iron tawa and hisses. Two minutes later it lifts off thin, crisp and dark gold, folded...

Prep 30 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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

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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Golden malpua with crisp lacy edges soaked in dark jaggery syrup, served warm
Festive Sweet

Malpua

Lacy frilled edges, a soft middle, and the deep caramel of jaggery worked into the batter instead of a syrup. Fried in...

Prep 15 min Cook 30 min Serves 4

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Dark rajma curry ladled over steamed basmati rice in a steel thali
Lunch

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
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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Baked sattu-stuffed litti cracked open over ghee, served beside smoky roasted brinjal chokha
Dinner

Litti Chokha

Wheat balls stuffed with spiced sattu, baked till blistered, cracked open in your palm and dunked in ghee, with a rough smoky...

Prep 40 min Cook 40 min Serves 4

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Thick yellow kadhi with onion pakoras and red chilli tadka, served with rice
Lunch

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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Stack of golden aloo parathas torn open, melting butter on top, curd and pickle beside
Breakfast

Punjabi Aloo Paratha

A thin paratha with crisp brown ghee spots, torn open to soft spiced potato inside, eaten with cold white butter sliding off...

Prep 35 min Cook 25 min Serves 4

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

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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Dark jaggery payasam with rice ada, fried coconut slivers and cashews in a tin vessel
Festive Sweet

Ada Pradhaman

Rice ada simmered in melted jaggery until it turns the colour of dark honey, thick coconut milk folded in warm, and crisp...

Prep 15 min Cook 45 min Serves 6

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