Any Indian people on here???

[lukenick1]

I tried some indian food for the first time yesterday and it was so good. I had something that was chick peas soaked over night in some kind of sauce. I also had yellow lentils ground up, and some cauliflower with some kind of sauce. These were all vegetarian dishes. Wish i knew what they were called and how to make them??

 

[Justsyd2]

Chana Masala Recipe

Bright Yellow Dal Recipe

Gobi Ki Sabzi

 

[thebeesknees]

The yellow lentils are called Dal (sometimes spelled dhal). The cauliflower was probably curried cauilflower if it was in a yellowish coconut sauce. The chickpeas or garbanzo beans could have been just about any kind of curry. You can check allrecipes.com or recipezaar for some of the recipes and see if any of them look like they have familiar ingredients. Sorry this isn't more help - there are literally hundreds of ways to make curry! I take a shortcut sometimes and use the curry sauces you can get in the international food section of the grocery store. Some recipes call for so many odd spices, and take so long to make that it works out easier for me to do that than make my own. DH is from Asia, and he says they are pretty good - not the "real thing" like his mom used to make, but close enough to tide him over between visits to his sister.

 

[Kitzka]

I am a huge fan of indian food but i don't have all of the spices they ask for handy when i want to make it and it isn't always economical for me to buy them just to throw them away.

I try to buy premade sauces from my local indain grocery store or the premade curry or other sauces in the interntional isle (like the pp).

DH and I LOVE Indian food!

Lara

 

[lukenick1]

Wow....knew the DIS would come thru.....thanks

 

[Samar]

I use the Shan spices from the Indo/Pak store or the international aisle at the store. DH is Indian so we use them plenty.

 

[lukenick1]

Got a recipe from my greek cousin. She gave me the measurements in grams. Can someone help me convert this???
I need.
250gr butter
440gr sugar
260gr milk
500gr flour
Thank a million.....

 

[Mom21]

Got a recipe from my greek cousin. She gave me the measurements in grams. Can someone help me convert this???
I need.
250gr butter
440gr sugar
260gr milk
500gr flour
Thank a million.....

Conversion calculator for everything. HTH



http://www.calculateme.com/Weight/index.htm

 

[java]

Well thanks to this thread I had to make Butter Chicken for dinner. I am going to try Chicken Vindaloo next. The Butter chicken was YUMMY!!

 

[lukenick1]

Conversion calculator for everything. HTH



http://www.calculateme.com/Weight/index.htm

Thanks for the link but I am not very smart when it comes to numbers.... it said this
250 Grams = 8.818490487395103 Ounces of butter.
how in the world do i figure that out?? I'm admitting my stupidity here.

 

[java]

250 grams is about 18 tablespoons of butter- so like 2 sticks and 2TBSP butter. (if I did that right)

One ounce equals 28 grams. So the sugar would be about 1 cup plus 7 ounces(a cup is 8 ounces so almost 2 cups)

 

[tinytink]

omg- I love the pumpkin(kadduu), super yummy!

 

[lukenick1]

oops

 

[DawnM]

You might want to start a new thread rather than adding Halloween costume quesitons to a thread about Indian food.

Dawn

Any cool ideas for a 7yr old boy?? Can't fathoms spending all that money on costume they use once. Like to be creative and make one. Any cool suggestions?????


Things we have already done....
Karate kid (Old tae kwon do gi)
Monkey (old navy clearance)
Clown (went to salvation army for the clothing)
Hippie (salvation army clothes)
Indian (store bought)
robber (black sweat suit with hat and mask)

 

[lukenick1]

lol.....i know it was a mistake

 

[DawnM]

We keep a lot of Indian spices on hand because I grew up in a country with a lot of Indians and we had it once per week at my house.

But we tend to not make a huge variety as it is just too time consuming.

Naan can be purchased at Costco and most major grocery stores. We add butter and garlic salt to make garlic Naan. I also occasionally make my own chapatis as I grew up with chapatis and not naan (Naan is more Northern India and Chapatis are more Southern.)

We buy tandoori sauce pre-made and cut up chicken and put in in a ziplock with the tandoori sauce and greek yogert and then stick it on a skewer and grill it and serve with basmati rice.

Our favorite recipe, esp. with a large crowd is this one:

http://www.familyoven.com/offsite?r_id=201095&u=http://www.recipezaar.com/145414

I also make one very close to this, but it is time consuming:

http://www.seriouslygood.kdweeks.com/2004/12/chicken-curry.html

Dawn

 

[CC12005]

Although not traditional Indian, a great way to get introduced to some of the flavors is the new Aarti Party show on Food Network. Hosted by the last Next Food Network Star winner, Aarti tries to introduce the American public to Indian spices with her own fusion recipes. Her recipes are on FoodNetwork.com. I enjoy trying Indian Food, kids not so much so this gives them some exposure to those flavors in a fun way.