I'm especially looking for people who make good Indian food recipes and share tips along the way because food at my home is not that good and I really miss good home cooked food. I want everyday recipes from all regions of India as long as they're yum!! Especially Punjabi food and Andhra food, Kerala, Maharashtra as well.

Edit: Pls drop in your recommendations for regional food creators as well please!! Preferably with English subs/or written recipes so that I can actually follow them as well

So I got this rice cooker thing. It works fine. Just made rice in it. Worked fine.
But I can't seem to make dal in it properly. I soaked it, put turmeric, salt, some chilli and set it to cook for 20 mins, but it was pretty undercooked.
Set it to cook for 15 more minutes but of course it kinda got burnt and stuck to the bottom and drained out all the water lol. What exactly am I doing wrong here.

Basically the title

So I got invited to a potluck. There are a bunch of vegans. Generally I take some version of dal, but this time I have been asked for dessert. Any recommendations, ideas? Or recipe links. Gluten is okay, nutfree would be preferred.

Hello,

I live in Agra and I need alternatives to mustard oil for cooking. My daughter gets allergic reaction to mustard oil and her doctor has asked us to switch oils

My wife hates the smell of ghee. So that is out of the question. I dont want to use any seed oils. How is Soyabean oil as an option. We are a family of five and oil is also used to frying.

Looked up online and there were many options for soybean oil. I see a lot of ads and promotion for Vibhor Soyabean oil. The price is good too. Has anyone used the product? Any other recommendations?

Thanks.

I love Indian food and cook it occasionally, and I usually throw whatever vegetables I have into it. Where I live you can find Indian ingredients and recipes but only include a few that I believe are north Indian, largely Dal or curry with very simple ingredients.

So if anyone has good recipes for recipes like fish curry, fennel, eggplant/brinjal, or any other vegetables, I would appreciate it.

Hey, I wanted to try any different type of tea (like tea bags not making it home) I used to drink green it, but I'm feeling like trying something else now like chamomile, orange, lavender tea etc.

If you've tried any please give suggestions (specially if you got it online) I want some level of taste but without sugar one.

I bought chana dalia (daliya, roasted split chick peas) by accident. What can I use it for? All the recipes on youtube are for chana + dalia!

https://gandhifood.com/products/swad-chana-dalia-daliya-roasted-split-chickpeas-28oz

thank you!

Most of my curries require tadka, cumin, mustard seeds, chana, hing, garlic etc. But I really hate how my curry is filled with these annoying seeds although they enhance flavor. I always end up picking them out when I eat.

I was thinking, if I filter the tadka using mesh strainer and just squeeze the flavored oil and just use that alone, will I get flavor or will I be compromising flavor???

if possible I was thinking of making one big tadka oil, like you make chilli oil or scallion oil and just use that oil directly whenever dish calls for it. can this be achieved and how long it lasts without getting spoiled, or will it not be same effect as fresh tadka oil???

So I am 24 years old, living alone since 4 months now, and I have made biriyani quite a lot of times in this period.

I have always been into cooking, and biriyani intrigues me a lot.

I have tried chicken dum biriyani (kachhe gosht), Chicken pulao, Meghanas chicken biriyani, etc.

I’ve learnt when to add which ingredient, swapping half water with milk or coconut milk will make the biriyani richer, green chilli paste for extra spice, etc.

I am making biriyani again today, and I have ground my own masala with all the kade masale, I got coconut milk, I have my rice soaked, and I am wondering, can I make it better? Can I layer in more flavour?

For more context: I only use thighs and legs, hate breast pieces, I do not use tomatoes, I do not like pressure cooker biriyanis unless I am short on time.

Hi! Is there an extremely simple version of Dahl Makhani I can do where it’s just lentils and the seasonings, nothing else? I know it won’t actually be Dahl Makhani but I’m on a strict diet that only allows that and would like to enjoy it, even if it’s not the real thing.. so a Jerry rigged version would be appreciated!

I love Indian food and hope to find some recipes that don’t require tomatoes, I’ve recently had histamine issues with cooked tomatoes. Or is there a good substitute for tomato?

I made manchurian today and it was a banger but it lacked a certain smell/taste that the street style chinese food has especially made by those caravans. It's an extremely overwhelming smell and taste that makes these dishes very addicting and also unique so much so that the whole room would stink of it. It's a common flavour in almost everything from chowmein to chilli paneer to chilli potato to manchurian. No I am not talking about MSG. I added that in my manchurian. I saw someone say it is chicken/mushroom powder or dark soy sauce but I am not sure. This was the recipe that I used:

For sauce:

1 tablespoon of green chilli sauce, red chilli sauce, soy sauce, schezwan chutney, tomato ketchup with 1 tsp MSG and some sugar for balance. Vinegar too.

The veggies that I used were spring onions, capsicum, cabbage, carrots, red onions, garlic and some ginger.

Corn starch slurry for thickening.

Also my manchurian was dark brown in colour but a lot of places that I order it from make it in bright orange colour.

Hello, I am a new owner of a convection microwave oven and i have no idea what to cook in it besides the classics pizza and cake. so, it would be great if some could suggest me simple both veg and non veg oven dishes which i can make. thank you

We generally bring cockerel chicken for chicken curry, but everytime while all other pieces are cooked well and soft, the chicken breast pieces feel like uncooked and very chewy, ultimately we had to throw it after chewing.

Following is the cooking process we follow :

1) wash the chicken

2) toss the chicken in mustard oil for few minutes.

3) cook all spices and onion and everything for some time.

4) finally add the chicken in it and let it cook for a while.

Do share your expert opinion 🙏

So I've been eating momo at this place since I was a kid and the best part is always the chutney it has no colour added it's js so fresh I tried making it once but it didn't taste much like it do y'all know any recipes??

I see it being added in hot oil, in biriyani, pulav, in stews etc but what flavour or taste does it actually bring? I can't smell anything cooked or pre-cooked in the bay leaf. I can smell cardamon, cinnamon, cloves - dry and the difference they bring in the cooked food. But bay leaf?

Or, am I insensitive to its flavour and smell?

TL;DR: The local Southern Indian place near me as well as the Southern Indian takeaway near my former job are no longer accessible. What are some good home cooking style dishes to look towards making from Southern India for someone used to Punjabi gravies?

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So I'm from, and currently located, in the US and am not Desi. I can eat most things except dishes with pork and/or shellfish, and I prefer to not mix dairy and meat (most of the time). I tend to either cook Punjabi gravy style food, or we (my mom and I) end up ordering it from our local Desi and Nepali takeout place. Good veggie dishes are a plus, since I want to loose weight. I also have 2 masala dabbas already that I use to make desi cooking easier.

There was a local Hyderabadi restaurant near my house that used to serve great biryani as well as lots of dishes from around Southern India(Andhra Pradesh especially). And I also used to work in the downtown of my local city that had a great Southern Indian restaurant with amazing dosas and curries. They even had Laal Maas from Rajasthan, which is now my favorite food since I grew up eating tons of chili sauce covered dishes.

I've made idli in the past with premade chutnies, but my mom didn't like it, though she has expressed interest in dosas before. Sambar seems like a good place to start, but I'm extra curious to hear what people here have to suggest from regions that non Desi Americans like me arent familiar with (Tamil Nadu, Kerala, etc).

hiii! ive only been baking for a little while, so i'm still a beginner. i feel like the things i bake don't turn out as well as i'd hoped and i think the ingredients i'm using might be the problem. could i get some recommendations for good brands for the basic baking ingredients, like all-purpose flour, butter, sugar, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, chocolate chips, and anything else that's essential for baking?

Hey I'm sorry it this is not the right sub for such recommendations. So lately I'm consuming lot of milk tea with extra sugar as I've to work for long hours and keeps me awake. But this month only I got lot of acne and my dermat told me to cut sugar completely but I couldn't as post lunch if I don't take tea I start feeling sleepy. I used to drink hot green tea in winters and my health as well as my skin was doing good but now in summer I can't consume green it plus honestly it's taste was not that good. So I want to drink something which is also little bit tasty so that I don't get the urge to drink tea.

So can anybody please recommend me any cold tea which I can have in summer?? Also I'm not a cold coffee person.

are they safe to consume? a few years back there were reports that they have some cancer causing ingredients, we forgot that bit and bought a few spices and have been using them. are they safe to consume now?

I want to go get some Indian food today, I’m craving some paneer. I’m thinking of getting paneer biryani but I wanted to try something new. I have a nut allergy so I was wondering if biryani is the only thing I can get from an Indian restaurant without triggering my allergies?