Indian Home Cooking!!!!

I posted a blog the other day about my Indian shopping adventures - now you have a chance to see how my cooking turned out!!!

My mom is a huge fan of Manjula Jain's recipe website - Manjula's Kitchen.  Sweet Manjula has created loads of videos to help demystify Indian cooking.  Earlier, I looked at a few cookbook recipes with about thirty ingredients and 24 hours+ cooking time and figured I'd just give up on making Indian food this month, but I could actually follow Manjula's simple and straightforward recipes!

Manjula's husband films her in her Rancho Bernardo kitchen and they upload a few new videos every month - she has over a hundred on her website since starting about 4 years ago.  Here's a great article from "Voice of San Diego" about Manjula.

For my first attempt at Indian home cooking, I decided to make Aloo Gobi - a main dish made of potatoes, cauliflower and spices....one of my favorites at Indian buffets! Check out the video above to hear Manjula's recipe.  Here's how mine turned out:

So, here's my Aloo Gobi with mango and cilantro chutneys (store bought- I cheated!) as well as some whole wheat paratha bread I picked up at Bombay Bazaar, and I had a bit of Khatta Meetha snack mix on the side. Turned out really good!!!!!

Yesterday, I decided to try out even more recipes! What you see here is some rice I made kinda in line with her  zucchini rice recipe (minus the zucchini because I didn't have any!), Sambar (spicy lentil soup) and cauliflower pickle. It tasted good last night, but even better as leftovers for lunch today!!!

You should check out Manjula's website!!!!