In the last recipe, I had talked about making masala popcorn. This weekend, I have been craving for snacks that I used to eat in India. So I decided to make another of my favorite snacks. It is very easy to make and is made with puffed rice. The Indian name for it is Murmura. [...]
In the last recipe, I had talked about making masala popcorn. This weekend, I have been craving for snacks that I used to eat in India. So I decided to make another of my favorite snacks. It is very easy to make and is made with puffed rice. The Indian name for it is Murmura. Puffed rice by itself is bland but when combined with various spices and peanuts, transforms it into a tasty snack. Puffed rice is a form of rice in which the rice grains are expanded to a volume that is several times larger than their original size. In Indian cooking there are various other dishes that are made with puffed rice – chaat (spicy melange of various vegetables and spices), sweets (puffed rice dessert made with Jaggery or sugar and ghee) and various other dishes.
Another important ingredient for this recipe is good quality peanuts. The roasted and salted Spanish peanuts that they sell at PCC Natural Market in Seattle, Washington is my favorite.
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Tags: Gluten-free · Snack
Indians are crazy about Bollywood movies in India. If the movie is highly anticipated and has a big star, there is a frenzy to see the movie on the day it is released. The lines for getting the ticket to the movie are long and you have to wait a few hours before the show [...]
Indians are crazy about Bollywood movies in India. If the movie is highly anticipated and has a big star, there is a frenzy to see the movie on the day it is released. The lines for getting the ticket to the movie are long and you have to wait a few hours before the show to get a good seat. Everyone has to see the movie the first day or they will not be able to sleep in peace. I am being sarcastic but it’s true. Due to the popularity of some Bollywood stars, their movie tickets are sold in the black market for 10-20 times the price of a ticket. And if you take the whole family of 4-6 people, good luck getting that many tickets. That is when you buy the tickets in the black market (usually from a guy who has connections to the clerk in the ticketing office and has bought a few tickets in advance). When you buy it for the whole family, you end up spending 10-20 times the cost of the ticket times 4 or 6 people! Talk about crazy! In case you are wondering, yes, I was one of the crazy people on occasions paying that much for a movie. This was, of course, when I used to live in India and I would look forward to the movies from a few of my favorite stars.
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Tags: Gluten-free · Snack
There was this fantastic “hole in the wall” restaurant we used to go to in the city where I used to live, where the food was worth dying for. It was a very small restaurant but very popular because of the food being lip-smacking good. Everything was prepared right in front of you. They had [...]
There was this fantastic “hole in the wall” restaurant we used to go to in the city where I used to live, where the food was worth dying for. It was a very small restaurant but very popular because of the food being lip-smacking good. Everything was prepared right in front of you. They had the Tandoor oven right in front of the restaurant where the cook would make amazing Naan and Tandoori Roti. He would take a ball of flour and roll the Naan with both his hands – like he was clapping, with the flour in between his two hands. Once it attained the requisite shape, he would take a folded wet kitchen towel, place the Naan on the towel and with his hands place the Naan on the side of a very very hot Tandoor oven! After a few minutes, the Naan would fall off the side, which would then be taken out of the oven with a long metal rod and placed right on a plate to be eaten! Yum. Nothing like eating a hot Naan with a really spicy Dal (lentil cooked in spices in a clay pot and topped with fresh herbs and deep fried thin onion strips and green chilli).
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Tags: Dessert · Gluten-free
Breakfast in India usually consists of a hot cup of masala chai (tea), tea cookies and a lightly spiced dish or a spicy dish. The type of breakfast you get to eat varies widely depending on which region of India you live in or visit. The southern part of India usually serves spicier dishes compared [...]
Breakfast in India usually consists of a hot cup of masala chai (tea), tea cookies and a lightly spiced dish or a spicy dish. The type of breakfast you get to eat varies widely depending on which region of India you live in or visit. The southern part of India usually serves spicier dishes compared to the northern or western part of India. I am mostly familiar with the culture in North, West and South India. I have never been to the eastern part of India. If any of you have been there or are from the eastern part of India, please add your comment as to the type of breakfast served there.
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Tags: Gluten-free · Indian Breakfast · Snack
Whenever I used to visit my grandparents in their village in India, I used to look forward to my grandma’s cooking. She used to cook on a wood burning stove and make bread with millet flour and various spicy vegetarian dishes that are not available outside India. We would eat them with millet chappatis (bread) [...]
Whenever I used to visit my grandparents in their village in India, I used to look forward to my grandma’s cooking. She used to cook on a wood burning stove and make bread with millet flour and various spicy vegetarian dishes that are not available outside India. We would eat them with millet chappatis (bread) topped with freshly churned butter. We finished off the meal with a cool glass of fresh buttermilk. Yum. The millet bread was to die for when topped with butter. It was warm and soft and just melted in your mouth. I was fascinated with the way fresh butter was made by churning.
…continue reading Gluten-free Millet and Oat Pancake
Tags: Breakfast · Gluten-free
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