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Category Archives: Indian food
Fenugreek, a delicious herb/vegetable
Fenugreek has long been used in the Middle East, North Africa, and South Asia in cooking and medicine. Today in the US it is perhaps best known as a spice component of cuisines of India, but it also has an … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Featured Markets, Indian food
Tagged मेथी, fenugreek, leaves, methi, Norristown, شنبلیله
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Edible Southeast Asian tree and bush leaves
Happy New Year greetings! Although I wasn’t able to post as much as I would have liked to in 2016, I was able to continue my careful exploration of interesting finds at our MANY Asian markets in Philadelphia (I now … Continue reading
Cured kudampuli fruit and Kerala-style fish curry
Several months ago I found a South Indian market (Kashmir Garden–interesting name for a market specializing in Tamil and Malayali cooking…) in Northeastern Philadelphia. Among my finds there of unique chile peppers, I also brought home a cured sour fruit … Continue reading
Posted in - Featured Food Discoveries, - Recipes, Indian food
Tagged குடம்புளி, കുടംപുളി, cambodge, curry leaves, fish curry, garcinia, Kerala, kokkum, kudampuli
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Four unique Asian dried chile peppers
Chile peppers have only been in Asia for several hundred years now, but they have gone a long, long way to become standard and staple ingredients in many of Asia’s great food cultures. Southeast Asia is of course full of … Continue reading
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Tagged buttermilk, buttermilk cured chiles, chaotian pepper, chili, chilly, curd chile, dahi michi, dried chiles, 辣椒, facing heaven pepper, Kashmir pepper, majjiga mirapakayalu, moor milagi, Sichuan, South Indian, Szechuan, tair mulak, Tamil Nadu, vathals, 四川, 朝天
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Urad dal and dal makhani
Dal can refer to the types of pulses from all over South Asia, and it can also refer to a soup made from those beans and lentils. Soups with lentils or beans are economical and protein-rich, are popular all over … Continue reading
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