Posted in Soups, Starters and Snacks, tagged daal, mulligatawny, rasam, soup, tomatoes on October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This home made answer to what restaurants call mulligatawny soup went down very well with our guests on Saturday.
Rasam
6 medium sized tomatoes( or 1 or 2 more, if you would like a more sour soup)
5 tbsp of arhar daal
½ tsp of grated ginger
½ tsp of mustard seeds
2 tbsp of ghee
½ tsp of turmeric
a pinch [...]
Posted in Daals, tagged arhar, daal, tadka on October 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Any day or time of the year, this daal, with phulka, is what Shri loves most to eat, I think. And when he says I am a “daal-chawal” kind of person, surely the daal he’d be happiest with would be this one.
It is made from the same lentil – arhar daal – that his other [...]
Posted in Daals, Easy One Pot Cooking, tagged daal, khichri, masoor, pumpkin, red lentils, spinach on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a recipe that evolved from the daals and khichris I used to cook for the girls when they were babies.
The format was usually the same – a couple of vegetables (one green, the other red or yellow) fried with some onion,garlic, sometimes ginger, and tomato, and then cooked together with one of the [...]
Posted in Daals, tagged arhar, daal, jaggery, tamarind on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This afternoon, when I soaked the daal for the evening’s meal, I found myself thinking that I did not want to make varan yet again. As I mulled over the various ways in which arhar can be cooked, I was reminded for the first time in a long while of a childhood favorite – a [...]
Posted in Daals, tagged arhar, daal, jaggery, Maharashtrian, varan on September 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Indira seemed both interested and amused when I showed her this blog a few days ago. Both the sisters now look forward to watching me take pictures of the food these days, and eagerly wait to see them on the computer.
Even so, this evening I was pleasurably surprised when she told me, watching me serve [...]
