basmati

mung bean dal pilaf

May 27, 2010

This recipe comes from the Ajanta: Regional Feasts of India cookbook. I made it by special request as Heguiberto wanted it to go with his Kashmiri eggplant dish from the same book. I’ve never cooked with mung bean dal before. Hegui tells me that “dal” means “split” so “split peas” would become “pea dal” for [...]

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Susa polow with lentils, currants and dates

February 9, 2010

I’ve been thrilled lately to be cooking from Najmieh Batmanglij’s Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey. Her rice dishes all turn out exciting and quite different from things that I’ve ever made before. This Susa polow is no exception. The book says that Susa was the capital of Elam, an ancient bronze-age kingdom in what’s [...]

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Madras mustard seed and yogurt pullao

January 13, 2010

I’ve been inspired by the success of my recent attempt at Georgian pilaf with tart cherries to try some more recipes from Najmieh Batmanglij’s remarkable book, Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey. Most of her rice recipes are unfamiliar to me and use ingredients that I’d not thought of putting in rice before. Last time [...]

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Georgian pilaf with tart cherries

December 31, 2009

I made this rice dish over Heguiberto’s objection for Christmas dinner last week. He objected not because it was a non-traditional dish (which he doesn’t care about) or because it was a rice dish (he loves rice). Rather, he didn’t like the idea of the tart cherries. Though he’s from Brazil where there is abundant [...]

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carrot cumin basmati rice

August 13, 2009

Some people would say bread and potatoes are their favorite starchy foods but at our house, it’s rice and pasta all the way. I grew up eating rice virtually every day. Steven humors me. In his family, they ate pasta a lot. He used to say rice was boring and did not have much taste. [...]

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a homemade Indian banquet

April 28, 2009

Have you ever wondered about cooking Indian food at home? Well it’s not as hard as you think, though it does take a little planning. At this Indian dinner, I served six traditional dishes from southern India. That probably sounds like a lot and it did take a few hours to prepare everything. Fortunately, many [...]

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