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Curry Leaves Pachadi Recipe: A Flavourful South Indian Classic You'll Love
Pachadi Recipe: Made with fresh curry leaves, tamarind, jaggery and a blend of spices, it has a perfect balance of tangy and sweet flavours.
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5 Common Mistakes You're Making With Your Mortar And Pestle (And How To Fix Them)
Even today, a mortar and pestle are kitchen must-haves for grinding ginger for your morning chai. It's not just ginger-garlic, green chillies, or even spices that get that extra burst of flavour when crushed before adding them to your cooking.
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How To Use Your Hand Blender For More Than Just Smoothies
Your hand blender is capable of so much more than just blending drinks. We're here to unlock its full potential. Plus, there's a viral trick that'll have you grinding spices like a pro!
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Shopping Guide: How To Pick The Finest Mortar And Pestle For Your Kitchen
Know about mortar and pestle in detail and use these tips for buying the best mortar and pestle.
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Watch: This Self-Spinning Jugaadu Chakki Has Captured The Imagination Of Twitter
A traditional chakki or grinding stone requires constant manual labour. But this one seems to be powered by other forces. Watch the full video here.
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Indian Cooking Tips: How To Make Dhaniya Powder In Just 10 Mins
Dhaniya powder is easily available in grocery stores. However, the flavour you'll receive from grinding your own is unrivalled. Here is how we can make it at home in few simple steps.
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Gut Health: Make Your Meals Exciting With This Interesting Curd / Raita Preparation Recommended By Expert
Curd for gut health: Pachadi is a kind of raita, which has curd as the main ingredient. To prepare it, you need to grind coconut, green chilli and mustard together. This spice mix renders a unique flavour to the dish. Read here to know more on how to prepare it.
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How To Use a Mortar and Pestle: 6 Tips to Grind Spices Better
Grinding and storing your own spices is a traditional art. Our mothers and grandmothers would meticulously grind whole spices such as cloves, cardamom, star anise and more using a mortar and pestle to release their fresh flavours and oils and skilfully use them in different preparations from curries to pulaos.
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How A Former Gujarat Royal Came To Be Known As 'Dinosaur Princess'
One of princess Aalia Sultana Babi's most prized possessions is a fossilised dinosaur egg she found an unsuspecting villager using to grind spices on her ancestral lands, an area billed as "India's Jurassic Park".
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The Top Indian Kitchen Hack: Grinding Spices Using Mortar-Pestle
An inveterate traveler, acclaimed Australian chef Christine Manfield is known for her love of Indian spices.
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Nigel Slater: 'I End the Day With a Spicy Curry, Earthy With Cumin and Curry Powder'
In this extract from Kitchen Diaries II, Nigel Slater spends New Year's Eve grinding and toasting spices and making a mess.New Year's Eve Simple, satisfying, almost effortless cooking is all very well. But sometimes I want to grind spices and toast them,...
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The 16-hour power cuts in Tamil Nadu
Cooking has become a daily challenge for Jasline Jonathan, a young housewife in Coimbatore. For upto 16 hours a day, there's no power, leaving her mixer-grinder out of action - a freebie given to voters by the AIADMK in last year's elections. So she uses a traditional mortar-pestle to grind her spices and other ingredients.
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Curry Leaves Pachadi Recipe: A Flavourful South Indian Classic You'll Love
Pachadi Recipe: Made with fresh curry leaves, tamarind, jaggery and a blend of spices, it has a perfect balance of tangy and sweet flavours.
-
5 Common Mistakes You're Making With Your Mortar And Pestle (And How To Fix Them)
Even today, a mortar and pestle are kitchen must-haves for grinding ginger for your morning chai. It's not just ginger-garlic, green chillies, or even spices that get that extra burst of flavour when crushed before adding them to your cooking.
-
How To Use Your Hand Blender For More Than Just Smoothies
Your hand blender is capable of so much more than just blending drinks. We're here to unlock its full potential. Plus, there's a viral trick that'll have you grinding spices like a pro!
-
Shopping Guide: How To Pick The Finest Mortar And Pestle For Your Kitchen
Know about mortar and pestle in detail and use these tips for buying the best mortar and pestle.
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Watch: This Self-Spinning Jugaadu Chakki Has Captured The Imagination Of Twitter
A traditional chakki or grinding stone requires constant manual labour. But this one seems to be powered by other forces. Watch the full video here.
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Indian Cooking Tips: How To Make Dhaniya Powder In Just 10 Mins
Dhaniya powder is easily available in grocery stores. However, the flavour you'll receive from grinding your own is unrivalled. Here is how we can make it at home in few simple steps.
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Gut Health: Make Your Meals Exciting With This Interesting Curd / Raita Preparation Recommended By Expert
Curd for gut health: Pachadi is a kind of raita, which has curd as the main ingredient. To prepare it, you need to grind coconut, green chilli and mustard together. This spice mix renders a unique flavour to the dish. Read here to know more on how to prepare it.
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How To Use a Mortar and Pestle: 6 Tips to Grind Spices Better
Grinding and storing your own spices is a traditional art. Our mothers and grandmothers would meticulously grind whole spices such as cloves, cardamom, star anise and more using a mortar and pestle to release their fresh flavours and oils and skilfully use them in different preparations from curries to pulaos.
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How A Former Gujarat Royal Came To Be Known As 'Dinosaur Princess'
One of princess Aalia Sultana Babi's most prized possessions is a fossilised dinosaur egg she found an unsuspecting villager using to grind spices on her ancestral lands, an area billed as "India's Jurassic Park".
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The Top Indian Kitchen Hack: Grinding Spices Using Mortar-Pestle
An inveterate traveler, acclaimed Australian chef Christine Manfield is known for her love of Indian spices.
-
Nigel Slater: 'I End the Day With a Spicy Curry, Earthy With Cumin and Curry Powder'
In this extract from Kitchen Diaries II, Nigel Slater spends New Year's Eve grinding and toasting spices and making a mess.New Year's Eve Simple, satisfying, almost effortless cooking is all very well. But sometimes I want to grind spices and toast them,...
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The 16-hour power cuts in Tamil Nadu
Cooking has become a daily challenge for Jasline Jonathan, a young housewife in Coimbatore. For upto 16 hours a day, there's no power, leaving her mixer-grinder out of action - a freebie given to voters by the AIADMK in last year's elections. So she uses a traditional mortar-pestle to grind her spices and other ingredients.
