Cooking

12/6/2011

            We got to do some Indian cooking!  This evening we were able to learn a bit about Indian cooking from some of the women in the society.  They taught us that you ALWAYS need cumin powder, turmeric powder, and chili powder in any and every Indian dish!  Other common spices they listed included haldi powder, mustard seeds, cloves, cardamon, garam masala, dhania powder, and cinnamon.

            We made tamarind chutney, and two appetizer dishes – fried onions and fried potatoes.  For the chutney, we needed hot water, tamarind, jaggery, a little bit of asafortita, cumin powder, coriander powder, and chili powder.  After we had chopped up onions and sliced potatoes, we mixed gram flower, salt, garlic paste, turmeric powder, agwain, chili powder, coriander powder, and cumin powder and first put the onions in and mixed it all together.  We then made balls and carefully dropped them into hot sunflower seed oil until golden brown!  The potatoes were pretty much the same mix except we didn’t use agwain and we added more water.

            It was a really fun experience…maybe I’ll try cooking more at home!

Learning about different spices!

Putting the onion mix into the oil!