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Juliane Bari
I am pleased to share an authentic Indian paneer cheese recipe today from Susan Saldanha. She is a Columbus cook originally hailing from India who teaches custom cooking classes about Indian culinary traditions for groups and individuals in your home. Contact Susan by email to experience her healthy, delicious take on Indian cooking.
June 2012 was memorable because I went back home to India after eight long years. Landing in Mumbai India I was hit by the heat, the humidity, the flood of humanity and a hunger in your belly. I began to realize I missed all of this so much.
In my home we eat paneer fresh and love it with a slight drizzle of honey or on a toothpick with a small piece of pineapple and a sprinkle of chaat masala. (Chaat masala is a spice blend used on a variety of snacks and has spicy, salty, and sweet tones. It is available in any Indian grocery store.)
What we loved the most about working with P+M was the personal connection we were able to create with them (and their parents!). They had learned of us from previously having attended the wedding of a cousin of the groom a few years before. When it was their turn, we were so incredibly honored to be their chosen team! As not only do we love becoming legacy providers for a given family, but we also absolutely adore creating multi-cultural events; through the years it actually has become one of our specialties.
Indian butter chicken or butter chicken masala has quickly become one of the most popular dishes among those who love to cook. As there are many different theories about how this dish came to be, people often try to recreate it in their kitchen - with varying degrees of success.
Indian Butter chicken, also known as murgh makhani, was invented in the Indian city of Calcutta by chef Kundan Lal Gujral who added tomato puree to his chicken curry after running out of butter one day. The resulting dish became so popular that it's now available on menus.
The origin of Indian butter chicken lies in the source of tandoori chicken - an Indian dish. A little over 100 years ago, Mokha Singh Lamba set up a restaurant in Peshawar which now lies in Pakistan. The butter chicken can be traced back to when it first gained popularity in India as a variation on tandoori chicken.
Chicken Makhani has become well-known, and every country seems to have given its twist to it. In Canada, for example, they serve butter chicken with tacos or roti; in India, however, it goes well alongside naan bread.
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Butter Chicken is an Indian dish- a rich sauce that combines cream, tomatoes, and aromatics with succulent pieces of chicken. It has become one of the most popular dishes from India to replicate due to its exceptional taste.
The first dish we know as Butter Chicken came about when Kundan Lal Gujral created his tandoori chicken. Tandoori chicken has its roots in Peshawar, where a man named Mokha Singh Lamba opened a small restaurant. It all started with yogurt-marinated pieces of chicken skewered and then thrown into the traditional clay oven known as tandoors, which created an incredible medley of flavors giving birth to what we now call Butter Chicken.
Gujral started a successful business venture in Delhi called Moti Mahal. The most popular item on his menu was Tandoori Chicken which tended to lose moisture when left for too long without being sold. To fix this problem, he improvised and created a basic recipe of tomato sauce, butter, cream, and spices - what we now know as Butter Chicken today.
This dish was first discovered in northern India, specifically Amritsar. It was created with generous butter to remain true to its Punjabi roots. The culinary creations are referred to as butter chicken or murgh makhani.
Today, Indian restaurants worldwide offer different takes on traditional dishes such as butter chicken. In America, this dish has been modified due to American preferences for cream or tomato sauces, both of which are common in Mughlai cuisine.
The name Butter Chicken often perplexes people. Is Butter Chicken a curry? What kind of dish is it? But because Butter Chicken has evolved into a hugely popular dish, it can be challenging to pinpoint its defining characteristics.
A good way for someone to think of it is that butter chicken is a dish found in most Indian restaurants which consist of cream and tomato sauce. But this does not mean there are no variations, and these ingredients make many restaurants' different versions.
Butter chicken, otherwise known as murgh makhani, originates from Punjab. A Punjabi chef living in New Delhi experimented with butter-fried chicken and came up with something so delicious that he named it after himself: Murgh Makhani, buttery chicken.
Outside of India, people recognize butter chicken for what it is called. In India, however, some may refer to it as Butter Naan because one of its main components is naan bread spread with butter. Both dishes are excellent options if you order Butter Chicken while in India.
Butter Chicken is a tasty, sweet dish that pairs well with Basmati rice or naan bread. When pairing this, you could include Tandoori chicken, mild curry, and basmati rice - served alongside steamed vegetables. Though its origins are in North India, this dish is most commonly eaten as an entre over white or brown Basmati Rice - though not naan.
These behind the scenes photographs have been kindly provided by the maker of our new block print fabrics. I'm thrilled that they are taken in the actual workshop where our fabric is made and show the very same hand printing process used.
I selected our Lines on Lines fabric because to me it's a very modern design, made with a very traditional process and I just love that. It also has a stunning boarder detail that just seems to set the whole design off.
The Splashed Indigo design I selected is very unusual for a block print, on close inspection you discover that it's the indigo blue background ink that has been applied with the block onto a white fabric. The overall effect is that the white has somehow been splashed on, it's very ingenious.
Region: Kerala
How It's Cooked: Boiled
The Dish: Coconut and curry leaf are two ingredient staples of Kerala, and of South Indian food in general. Both come to the party in this side (or breakfast) dish of boiled eggs cooked in a very thick paste of ginger, chilies, garlic, onions, and tomatoes, plus curry leaves and a few drops of coconut milk. The ideal sidekick to egg roast is appam, the fluffy South Indian pancake of your dreams.
Region: This dish is not necessarily native to a region but rather a community, Parsi, known for being followers of the Iranian prophet Zoroaster.
How It's Cooked: Scrambled
The Dish: This may sound very similar to egg bhurji, and it is. But there are two key differences: First, the eggs are intended to be runny (this is less of a hard and fast rule for bhurji), and second, powdered spices are subbed out for additional onions and whole green chiles. For heat lovers only.
A typical masala soda shop in Mumbai. Flavors sold here range from traditional Indian ones with mango, pineapple and lemon, to more westernized flavors, like strawberry, kiwi and mojito. Leena Trivedi-Grenier for NPR hide caption
It was a warm January day in Vadodara, in western India, when my aunt, Apeksha Kaki, announced that we were going to a soda shop. This was my first time visiting extended family in India, and I was eager to try local foods and drinks. So, I was a bit disappointed at the mention of soda.
It was around 9 p.m. when we rolled up to this shop on the outskirts of the city. A crowd of about 30 people had gathered at the small shop, which consisted of two soda dispensers and several employees. On the counter was a wooden box sectioned into a few dozen compartments, each with a plastic cup of soda - sort of an assembly line, allowing the staff to handle many orders at once. Several plastic bottles sat on one end of the counter. Repurposed into squeeze bottles, some were filled with fresh lemon juice and plain or flavored syrups. There were canisters with spices and rock salt.
My aunt suggested I try a nimbu soda. The first sip flooded my mouth with fresh lemon and spices that I'd never expected in a cup of soda: chili pepper, cumin, ginger, black salt. Sweet, salty, savory and a bit funky all at once. This was not just soda. This was masala soda, the single most flavorful sip of my entire trip, and I needed more.
"Masala soda is a punchy, flavored soda drink," Denise D'Silva Sankhe, a Mumbai-based food writer told me recently. "It's typically a street style drink that you will find vendors serving up in the hot Indian summer." While it can be found all over the country, most people agree that masala soda originated in North India.
The other most important ingredient of this masala is the kala namak, or black salt. It's a rock salt containing sulfur, which lends a pungent, almost eggy smell to the drink. Carbonated water gives the drink effervescence, which can be further enhanced with a simple syrup and nimbu (meaning lemon or lime) juice or a fruit flavored drink called sherbet. Occasionally, it's served with commercial sodas, like Thums Up (an Indian cola) or Sprite.
A soda vendor in Mumbai squeezes fresh lemons for a nimbu soda. The plastic jars in front of him contain spice mixes for different flavors. Leena Trivedi-Grenier for NPR hide caption
"All Indian and ayurvedic cooking tends to incorporate six different tastes: sweet, sour, salty, bitter, pungent (spicy) and astringent," said Dr. Jay Apte, an ayurvedic practitioner for 35 years based in Mountain View, Cali. Masala soda incorporates all of these flavors, so naturally, Indians love it.
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