[Jamestown1630]

This week: Indian Food – or your personal favorite exotic recipe!

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-JT

[wyowolf]

I let my Tamil wife do all the Indian cooking :)

[no-to-illegals]

May I have a MOAB??

[bgill]

I touched on this a couple threads back but wanted to share the best empanada/baked fruit tart/etc. dough recipe as a whole. Fill it with whatever you wish. We happened to have some leftover Salisbury steak and gravy so put it all in the food processor for the filling. There’s sure to be an Indian recipe here that could be used.

Dough:
1 stick butter
4 oz cream cheese
1 C flour

Whirl in the food processor. Chill for half an hour. Roll out. Yields sixteen 3 3/4” rounds. Fill it, fold in half and pinch the edges. Or use a dough press. Bake at 375 for 15-18 minutes.

Mr. b, who doesn’t give much of a critic said it was a keeper and finished them all off that night. So flakey and super simple.

[mylife]

This past Christmas we had Goat Buryani for Christmas dinner

Gosh that was interesting, we had Momo’s an Roti

[mylife]

My brother once asked his Indian wife "what do you put in this dish"? She said 'Everything, everything in the kitchen' He said that explains why it all tastes the same" ☺

[tjd1454]

What I appreciate about the Indians is this: they work hard and keep to themselves. They are not on a mission to destroy Christian civilization, unlike the Muslims.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Hey everybody!
Here’s a nice Indian accompaniment to serve with Naan or other Indian breads, it’s really good and very simple!

In a medium bowl combine:

2 large chopped tomatoes
2 tbsp. chopped fresh coriander
2 small thinly sliced red onions
2 tblsp lime juice
1 teaspoon soft brown sugar
season with s&p to taste.
Mix well and cover with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for 15 minutes before serving.

The lime juice and cilantro give it a nice “spark.”
Enjoy!

[Yaelle]

I love Indian food. There’s one restaurant around the corner from here, semi famous sadly because the Kardashians have been there and filmed there as well. But their food is so good I chose it one year for my birthday dinner.

I have cooked curries since I was a teen, just loving a good vegetable curry. When I fist visited England the food did not impress... until we ate their Indian which was better than ours here. And I loved the food when I was in India and Sri Lanka and Nepal when I was quite young, as well. I especially remember water buffalo cooked many ways.

To the one with the Tamil wife: one of my favorite memories in the world was Negombo. The people, the storms on the beach, the food. The wild elephants inland.

Now, I like to make Indian comfort food like mung dal with rice, cooked soft til you can’t tell which is the lentil and which is the rice, well flavored but not too spicy. Good for when you are under the weather.

And I don’t know if it is Indian or Mexican but I love the pasty tamarind candy with chili pepper.

[pugmama]

This is an easy recipe that we like;

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/03/madhur-jaffreys-shrimp-biryani.html

[pugmama]

This is also another favorite recipe:

https://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/cilantro-chicken

[V K Lee]

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[Trillian]

I hope everyone had a Happy Easter!
I’m not a fan of indian food, so here’s a cookie recipe:

Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Nordic Twist

Ingredients
7/8 cup (124 grams) all-purpose flour
¾ teaspoon kosher salt
½ teaspoon baking soda
1 cup rye flour (140 grams)
12 Tablespoons (1-1/2 sticks) salted butter, cut into pieces and chilled
1-1/4 cups white sugar (248 grams)
2 large eggs
1 Tablespoon Dan Sukker Tumma Siirappi, Finnish Dark Syrup (or molasses)
1 Tablespoon vanilla extract
1 package (10 ounces) Dark Chocolate Morsels (or about 1-1/2 cups chopped bittersweet chocolate)
1 cup pecans, toasted and chopped (113 grams)

Instructions
Heat oven to 350 degrees with the rack in the middle position. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment.
In a medium bowl, whisk together the all-purpose flour, salt, and baking soda.
In a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat, toast the rye flour until fragrant and shade or two darker, about 5-7 minutes, stirring frequently. Remove the skillet from the heat, then add the butter and stir until melted.
In a large bowl, mix together the sugar, eggs, dark syrup (or molasses) and vanilla. When the rye-butter mixture is cool to the touch, slowly stir it into the eggs. Add the dry ingredients and stir until combined. Stir in the chocolate chips and pecans.
Drop by 2 Tablespoon mounds of dough about 2-inches apart on the prepared baking sheets. One sheet at a time, bake until the edges are firm and the centers are soft, about 8-12 minutes, rotating the sheet halfway through. Cool on the sheet for 5 minutes then transfer to a wire rack to cool. Repeat with second sheet. Makes 24 cookies.