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~ Indian Girl’s Innovation: World’s First Fully Automatic Roti (Tortilla) Maker
~Mother’s Secret Recipe: How To Make Indian Spices Mix (Garam Masala)
Add Traditional and Authentic Indian Aroma/Taste in your curry. See all clips (step-by-step) to know Indian Mother’s/Grandmother’s secret Spices Mix (Garam Masala) Recipes for day-to-day Indian cooking, which also has various health benefits.
Indian spice mix is not only for taste/aroma but it also helps digestion and has medicinal properties. Separately each ingredient is also used as remedies for many diseases in Ayurveda (Ancient Indian Herbal Medicine).
FYI, there are different types of Spices mixes used according to type of food / Regions in India, but following Garam Masala Mix is prepared and used in daily cooking.; which is generally low spicy and oily but gives traditional taste and aroma to your Indian curry.
Prepare Garam Masala as per recipes below and store in dry seal-tight bottle (shelf life- about 4-5 moths) for future cooking usage. First understand what Indian spice Box contains and then recipe of spices mix (Garam Masala, chaat masala and Chai Masala) by mixing these ingredients in proper proportion.
I. Garam Masala Recipes:
Step-2: Garam Masala Recipe ( Via Rajshri)
Step-1: Introduction to Indian Home Spice Box (Via Rajshri)
Also see this
Another Indian Spices Mix/Garam Masala Recipe (Via ShowMeTheCurry)
II. Chat Masala Recipe:
Chaat masala ( Via Rajshri) : For Indian Snacks (chaat)
III. Chai ( Tea) Masala Recipe:
Chai Masala ( Via Manjula Aunty) : Tea Spice for typical Indian “chai” taste
Sources: Google search, Image credit- Wikipedia, Youtube, Rajshri productions, ShoMeTheCurry , Manjula Aunty, Wikipedia, and other links in the post.
~ Pani-Puri Recipe: How to Make Crispy ‘Puri’
Simple Pani Puri dish (also called Gol Gappa) but difficult to make crispy Puri (hollow spherical shaped fried bread ), that’s the biggest challenge with this dish! See collection of 3 Secret Recipes to make “Puri‘ for mouth-watering Pani-Puri dish at Home! 😀
Many Indians buy ready-made Puris from shop and make Pani-Puri dish at home. But, such Puris may or may not be fresh. So, they generally prefer to make Puris at home. Find 3 different recipes below along with some important points to note. BTW, making Pani (Water with herbal ingredients and typical spices) is simple now after availability of many ready-made “Pani-Puri Masala” (Spice) in the market.
Photo Credit: Wikipedia
Important things to note:
- Oil temperature should be proper (low and not medium or high ) for frying puris
- Puri should be properly closed at appropriate time using wet towel (except recipe showed in 1st video)
- Remember proper Sequencing of ingredients/when to add oil , etc for making Puri Dough
- Even if your Puri remain soft after frying, try to use oven (200 degree F/93 C for 20 min as mentioned in first recipe)
- Ingredients of Puri Dough making is slightly different in each recipes, try which is best suitable
Try which recipe is better and share your experience with us here.
1. Puri using Baking powder (Via ShowMeTheCurry)
2. Puri using Suji/Semolina and Maida (Via : Manjula aunty)
3. Puri using Soda Drink (Via Bhavana’s Kitchen)
Sources: Youtube, Manjula aunty’s play list, Bhavana’s Kitchen playlist, Show Me The Curry playlist, Wikipedia , Google search, and other hyperlinks mentioned in the post.
~ Karma Kitchen, USA : A unique Restaurant where you pay $0 (Zero) bill
One of its kind restaurant where you get $ 0 bill with a note: “Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those dine after you”. So, technically your bill is already paid by some unknown visitor before and you have to pay for future unknown guest, just out of Generosity!! Also, there is no Price on Menu card, you can order what you want and you get “$0” (zero) dollar bill. Then you can pay what you feel is right value (in terms of money) for your food! Another interesting thing is that food is prepared and served by volunteers who gives service for FREE (without any salary)! So, imagine unique scene where waiter/staff do not get salary and customer gets zero dollar bill 😀
Viral and Pavi Mehta, American-Indian couple, initiated this idea at Taste of Himalayas Restaurant, Berkley , California. This Karma concept meal is served on Sunday. As their website says ‘it’s a volunteer-driven experiment in generosity’. Initiative is to spread Generosity and Togetherness among people!
What!!! But, how it works? See these clips below:
Karma Kitchen Videos
Talk about Karma Kitchen project at TED talk by Mr. Nipun Mehta – Designing For Generosity- TEDxBerkeley
Related links:
image credit: “en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vegetarian_Andhra_Meal.jpg”
Sources: Karma Kitchen website, TEDx talk, youtube, Darshan America, Google search, Facebook, Twitter, and other hyperlinks mentioned in the post.
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