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We have friends coming over for dinner tomorrow and I wanted to cook some Indian meals - Butter Chicken, Aloo Gajar Matar - and Eggplant curry.

However, I just realized I did not buy enough tomatoes. Shops are closes tomorrow, so I have to do without.

Can you recommend a receipe for eggplant curry without tomato? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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We were in Florence and were getting pizza pasta burn out so our first night we went to The Indian Palace restaurant. Great food and service, my husband ordered chicken karahi and absolutely loved it.

Does anyone have a recipe that they would like to share please? I would love to surprise my husband one night

I love Bharatz Kitchen on YouTube, he makes these beautiful rich dhaba style curries that always work well. However, with many of his curries he adds yoghurt, or what he calls curd directly into hot oil and fried onions. I’ve done this in the past and curdled my yoghurt immediately. How can I avoid this?

Hi, i want to buy an air fryer for my home. My max budget is 4k. I found this usha company air fryer. Is it good. It comes with 2yrs warranty. Price is 4k. Open for suggestions

Good morning everyone, James 31 UK here, no lies I absolutely love Indian food, best food in the world in my opinion, I’d really like to know how to make a Korma sauce exactly like an Indian restaurant does it, microwave meals and jar sauce just isn’t the same, can anyone help me with explaining how to make? Thank you 🙏

I found out through a video about making pasta sauce that one can make a tomatoey gravy just by diluting some tomato paste into some liquid. I also imagine the paste can be used as a quick shortcut as well.

With that being said, is there any difference between using whole tomatoes and tomato paste for curries with tomatoes? Like, would there be any difference in taste or texture or anything else?

I should've mentioned this earlier but what I'm wondering is if it is used in any savory dishes such as biryani, curries, etc.

Hi guys , I just made some garlic sauce and it tastes bitter. what can I do to remove the bitterness ? TIA :)

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Hi everyone, I bought two jars of pickles by Chokhi Dhani (ginger, lemon & green chili pickle and mixed pickle) and the 'base flavour' is nice but it's also extremely salty. I don't want to throw out the jars, so here's my question: is there any way to salvage these pickles so that they are (way!!) less salty? I've thought about adding lemon juice or oil to thin it out, but they are already quite acidic.

Many thanks in advance!

(edit: tried to change the title, but not sure how (my very first Reddit post ever!) as it is actually pickles and not chutney)

What type of urad dal do you use? Is it Urad Chilka or Urad Gota? Should it have skin? Thank you

I'm considering buying OTG for my home. Max budget is 3.5k. I'm tight on budget. Is marq by Flipkart any good

Could anyone recommend an excellent jarred Mango Chutney that I can buy at an Indian or general grocery store? I have purchased Patak's but did not care for it.

thanks!

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Can you suggest me a good pepper mill

hello i was wondering if its ok to use low fat greek yogurt or regular low fat yogurt and if so which one would be better greek or regular. thank you

I feel Dosa is the pinnacle of breakfast. We can eat it daily and never get bored. Edit: Only Indian food

Our friend’s family is visiting from India and we (based in the US) will have them over for dinner this weekend. Below is the menu I was planning on making for them. Let me know if this works or if I should stick with roti, dry subji, curry, rice and daal menu

I am planning on making stuffed paneer paratha, Raita, tondli bhaat and moog daal sheera. I might also have bhaje or samosa for appetizers, not sure what will go better with the menu.

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ive been looking at amazon for a carbon steel wok but i cannot seem to get any good products. all seem to have bad reviews regarding coating and rusting so if someone has bought a wok please share the company/link of it. im looking for both curved and flat bottom wok

I like to have rotis for my lunch..but I find it very time consuming and honestly I am really slow at making them. Was suggested to use a Roti maker..anyone here has used them?

I have been looking for a decent value for money stand mixer to primarily knead dough for chapati. I have looked at budget options such as INALSA and ROSSMAN along with some costlier options, such as HAFELE and KENWOOD. But one thing that is common among them is early failure rate and poor after sales service.

This is making me hesitant to pull the trigger on any of them.

Hence, I am turning to you all for helping me out with this.

Thanks!

Hi everyone,

I am making chicken tika masala and the recipe I am using calls for a tbsp of mustard oil in the marinade if you want an authentic flavour.

So I went ahead and bought that and made my marinade and it smells SO strong to me and kind of gross? It'll marinade for 7 hours or so.

So I did some googling and I see a bunch of things about heating oil before using it... the recipe did not call for that whatsoever so now I am worried I totally ruined all my chicken and it'll taste terrible.

On top of that the oil I bought in the grocery store says for external use only - on Google I see that's just an FDA thing and should be fine (I got it in a cooking oil isle at Asian grocery) but that makes me even more concerned this is going to be an epic fail.

Any advice/or reassurance that it'll work out fine? So anxious now haha

This is the recipe I am following btw: https://www.indianhealthyrecipes.com/chicken-tikka-masala/#wprm-recipe-container-38936

TIA for your help :

UPDATE: tasted great actually, the oil added an amazing flavour to the chicken once cooked and added to the gravy. Final result: https://imgur.com/a/ms8mrEy

Hey folks. I'm trying to figure out what counts as a side dish and what counts as a main dish in Indian food. Can someone help me out?

This question is specifically for Americans and Indians residing in the US. I’m an Indian and we have a potluck event in December at work (In the US). I will be taking an entrée with naan for the potluck. I had earlier thought on paneer butter masala but there’s also going to be butter chicken. I’m sure no one will even look at Paneer butter masala when they’ll have the option of butter chicken. So is there any other vegetarian dish that you think Americans would enjoy? I was thinking of Saag Paneer (palak paneer).

Thank you

Edit: Thank you everyone for your replies and suggestions 🙏. I’m going to ponder over them and pick one

I am a bachelor, I don't cook often. I go to gym regularly . I started eating tandoori chicken quater to half for dinner every alternate day with some milk bread.. is it healthy? I don't think so but it's easily available and tasty.. should I stop eating it.. please suggest me any alternatives.

For people who have little idea about tandoori chicken. It roasted chicken.

My local halal market has been running a KILLER deal on tomatoes, 10 pounds for $2! So I snatched me a box.

I've already made shahi paneer and I love it, I haven't tried butter chicken yet but I WILL make it.

Besides those two, what are some large dishes I can make with tomatoes? I like to make one large meal at the beginning of the week and have it last the whole week.

Hi ladies and gents. I bought the neccesary ingredients for one of my favourite dishes, butter chicken, but i thought i'd switch it up and explore indian food more, what's a different chicken curry i should try?

I feel like it’s the cuisine that I never get sick of.

All those flavors.