Cooking Cheaper Indian food & My Dal recipe (the real thing too!)

D&DD

As the only person with taste in this house I'm the sole eater here of indian food so please accept my humble thanks for making me a very happy girl :T Very useful recipes

Hardup_Hester

Thanks for the recipes, I'm making sag aloo today.
Hester

daisiegg

Oh this thread has made me hungry! My ex boyfriend of 5 years was from Mauritius and they cook what is basically Indian food. His dad was the main cook in his family and I looooooved some of the food (not all of it I have to add....but most of it!) His mum taught me how to make roti (by sight, no measurements) and my basic curry recipe came from them (they would swear it technically isn't a curry unless it has curry leaves?) but one thing I can never get right is an amazing chana (chickpeas) dish they used to make, to have in roti as sandwiches for lunch on their once a week vegetarian day (Thursdays, for wealth!). It wasn't a curry and it wasn't tomatoey ....I have never been able to recreate it and I wonder if it was just a family recipe. Even though it's been 4 years since we split up, I still crave it sometimes!

shays_mum

Hi,
Just stumbled across this thread, for those of you who would like to learn to cook traditional Indian food with videos, i use:

http://showmethecurry.com/

There is lots of veg/non veg ideas - enjoy!

la_farfallina

Have just been watching showmethecurry.

It's curry !!!!!!.
Thank you!

Farf x

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daisiegg wrote: »

... but one thing I can never get right is an amazing chana (chickpeas) dish they used to make, to have in roti as sandwiches for lunch on their once a week vegetarian day (Thursdays, for wealth!). It wasn't a curry and it wasn't tomatoey ....I have never been able to recreate it and I wonder if it was just a family recipe. Even though it's been 4 years since we split up, I still crave it sometimes!

Have a look around online for recipes for 'chana chaat/chat' or 'chana chole' I think that might be yer missing dish

DawnW

A brilliant thread - thanks very much

unhappy_shopper

Recipe for chana masala here.

la_farfallina

I made the dal that Joolzred has posted. Delicious,
Couldn't find hing though so left it out.

Does hing actually do much for the dal taste-wise?

Farf x

Justamum

la_farfallina wrote: »

I made the dal that Joolzred has posted. Delicious,
Couldn't find hing though so left it out.

Does hing actually do much for the dal taste-wise?

Farf x

Hing is also called asafoetida. You can often get it in health food shops.