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Indian side dish recipies needed?

24 replies

batey · 03/07/2004 23:15

Having a "bring a curry night" with 10 friends this w/e and I'm making the side dishes. Any recipies out there? Preferably ones I can do in advance?

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bran · 03/07/2004 23:20

how about black-eyed beans with mushroom - one of Madhur Jaffrey's, I love it, and it re-heats very well.

codswallop · 03/07/2004 23:25

do a watirose recipe search

Poppy1978 · 03/07/2004 23:37

There are loads of good recipes on, www.tarladalal.com
I use this a lot when cooking for my Indian DP - they are very authentic.

beetroot · 03/07/2004 23:44

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marsup · 03/07/2004 23:45

There are some basic things like cucumber, mint and yoghurt, tomato and finely chopped onion, or banana and coconut - I think they're designed to put out the fires after too much spice. But you probably know the basic ones already!

batey · 04/07/2004 09:35

Thanks for these. Beety, qutite fancy the lentil daal and the potato and pea ones if that's o.k?Cheers.

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august24 · 04/07/2004 10:12

Any recipe by Madur Jaffrey is great. This is a simple one I made last night(my husband is Indian and only eats Indian at home!) I made it with Rainbow Chard but you can use any greens, like spinach, You take about 3 tablespoons of oil, heat in a large pan(I use a wok like thing I got at Ikea) , add 3 dried red chilis and 1 tablespoon of cumin seeds, fry for a minute or so until the chilis change color, then add the greens(a large bunch), cook until all the liquid evaporates.

Sel Bhindi(okra and onions)
2 tsp corriander powder
1 tsp chili powder
1 tsp salt
1 tsp turmeric
3 tbls oil
1 lb okra, topped and tailed then sliced in half
1 onion sliced in thin half rings
fresh coriander chopped
Combine the spices in a little bowl and set aside. Heat the oil in a big nonstick pan(I use my wok that I got at ikea) when hot fry okra until brown in spots, then add onions, cook until the onions are brown in parts and on their way to being well cooked, add spice mixture and cook for about 5 more minutes(until spices are cooked)

Aloo Gobi
1 large Cauliflower(leave it whole, cut off the green leaves etc)
1 large Onion(diced)
4 medium potatoes(peeled and cut into quarters)
½ tsp mustard seed
½ tsp cumin seed
1 tsp. Red chili powder
4 curry leaves
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp corriander powder
salt
turmeric
fresh corriander leaves

In large pan with lid(again I use my nonstick wok) heat oil then add seeds(mustard, and cumin) and curry leaves, fry until seeds pop, then add onions, fry for 2 minutes, then add turmeric/salt/chili powder/ garlic /corriander powder. Add diced potatoes and fry until crispy. Once potatoes are browned, add cauliflower and 1 cup of water. Cover and cook for ten minutes(I usually flip the cauliflower over after about 5 minutes). Once the potatoes are soft(you mayneed to add more water) uncover and fry constantly mixing. Once cauliflower /potatoes are cooked, chop then up and add corriander leaves

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batey · 04/07/2004 20:39

Thanks so much, I'm printing them off now!

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oxocube · 04/07/2004 21:24

Thats interesting August 24, about your husband only eating Indian at home. Did you have to 're-learn' how to cook when you met him? (I'm assuming you didn't cook loads of Indian food before you met him) Was it difficult to master authentic Indian cooking?

marthamoo · 04/07/2004 21:46

I'm starving now.......

marthamoo · 04/07/2004 21:47

What a fantastic idea though - a bring a curry night!

jmg1 · 04/07/2004 21:49

While on the subject of Indian food, does anyone know of a good recipe for Chicken Jalfrezi.
I am teaching myself to cook, may aswell learn some stuff I like! Tried the website detailed below but could not find it on there.

august24 · 04/07/2004 23:00

Yeah,I did have to learn from scratch. I am American and didn't eat a curry until I was 20 and off to India for a year abroad with college! Honestly, Madhur Jaffrey has taught me everything I know and it has been since Christmas this year that we have finally switched to Indian 7 nights a week. Up until them I would make him eat other things. But I too love Indian food and it makes a much happier husband for me when he is eating what he likes(I feel so 1950's saying that!) And also he does all the clean up after I cook, so it is a win win situation! I picked up somethings from his mom, like his favorite Dal and some of his favorite dishes, but I have added to them and now do things that my mother-in-law would frown on but I find makes my life easier. For instance I used tinned crushed tomatoes. I buy frozen garlic and ginger cubes at tesco and use those instead of fresh. I also keep my chilis and curry leaves in the freezer as they keep for ever there, and curry leaves are hard to come by(though Asda does stock them) Also I try and find recipes that I can make both veg and non veg(as I am veg and he isn't) so there are a lot of recipes that you fry the onions and spices then add meat, at that point I split them and do 2 seprate ones. Another thing I learned from my mother and sister in law is to make a bunch of dal, rice and curries and eat them for a few days. Indian food taste better after a few days!

Poppy1978 · 05/07/2004 12:04

Hey August, sounds like you've been working hard.

I've been with my Indian bf about a year and a half, and although he wouldn't want to eat it every night, he does like me to learn it. I don't think I could eat it every night neither!
I've finally got the hang of chapatis though I really can't seem to get samosas right, and I've been trying to find a decent recipe for theplas.

I also have trouble getting ingredients, especially stuff like paneer which the nearest stock is a 90 min drive away.

oxocube · 05/07/2004 12:30

August, so thats why the take-away always tastes so good for breakfast

motherinferior · 05/07/2004 12:59

Can't find bloody curry leaves round here - sarfeast lunnon, dammit - for love nor money.

My mum is Indian, but despite being fantastic cook never taught me. Does pass on recipes sometimes. I too learnt everything I know from Ms Jaffrey. As did at least one of my Indian cousins!

batey · 09/07/2004 19:10

Just wanted to say thanks again for the recipies. Had a great night and the best thing....everyone to their dirty saucepans home!!

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jmg1 · 09/07/2004 19:13

batey glad you had a good night.
While on the subject of Indian food, does anyone know of a good recipe for Chicken Jalfrezi.
I am teaching myself to cook, may aswell learn some stuff I like! Tried the website detailed below but could not find it on there

DelGirl · 09/07/2004 19:27

Chicken Jalfrezi. (not tried it so can't comment on it) from sharwoods recipe book:

2 x 15 sp vegetable ghee or oil
2 large onions - sliced
1 x 15ml sp cummin seeds
1 x 15 sp ginger - chopped
2 cloves garlic - crushed
1lb boneless chicken - cut into bite size pieces
3 x 15ml sp sharwoods hot curry paste
2 x 15ml sp sharwoods tomato puree
1 red pepper sliced
1 green pepper sliced
salt to tate

Heat ghee or oil in large frying pan or wook. Fry the onions and cummin seeds until golden. Add ginger and garlic and cook for 5 minutes. Add chicken and fry for 15 minutes. Stir in curry paste tomato puree and peppers. Fry for 5 minutes. Cover and cook on low heat for 5 minuites. Add salt to taste and garnish with chopped coriander and lemon juice.

For an extra heat just chuck in a few carefully selected and prepared birds eye chillies!

DelGirl · 09/07/2004 19:34

sorry for typo's. should read 15 ml spoonfuls

jmg1 · 11/07/2004 11:10

Thanks for that DG.

luverlytea · 15/11/2013 00:30

Sad news.
Tarla Dalal passed away on November 6.2013.
A remarkable, unassuming and kind lady, she was perhaps the first Indian to write a cookery book. She had a giving nature and shared all her knowledge with others.
She shines like a beacon among India's greats.
Others were Premila Lal, Jeroo Sidhwa., Aroona Reejsinghani, pioneers in cookery writing. God bless them all.
They brought recipe ideas, methods, traditional and modern, all with devotion and care and research, into the ordinary housewife's reach.
They had a loving dedication to their readers

CSLewis · 15/11/2013 08:29

MORHERINFERIOR: not sure whereabouts you are in south-east London, but I live in SE15 and buy quite big packs of curry leaves from the big Asda on the Old Kent Rd, which also does garlic and ginger purée in jars, and big packs of various different pulses for dals, and big sacks of rice and chapatti flour, etc - basically they have a very good ethnic section Smile

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