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Malai Kofta
Paneer and potato dumplings in a smooth cashew gravy. Bind them properly and fry them hot, or they disintegrate in the oil.
- Time
- 1h 40m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Involved
Recipes, structured
The whole recipe, in one table.
A paragraph tells you what to do next. A table tells you what the dish is: which ingredients meet each other, in what order, and how many things you can leave alone while something else cooks. Every recipe here is authored as a tree and rendered as a grid.
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- Kitchen notes
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This is the entire method for Brown Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies — no scrolling past a childhood anecdote to find the oven temperature.
| 1 cup | 1 Brown the butter, then cool to room temperature 10m Swirl until the milk solids are hazelnut-brown, then pour it out — the pan keeps cooking. | 2 Beat until glossy and slightly paler 3m | 4 Fold in, just until no flour shows 2m | 5 Scoop into 50 g balls and chill overnight 15m The rest is not optional — it hydrates the flour and deepens the flavour. | 6 Bake at 175°C / 350°F until the edges set 12m Pull them when the centres still look underdone; they finish on the hot pan. | |
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Cabbage Thoran
A dry Kerala stir-fry of finely shredded cabbage with coconut. Fifteen minutes, and the coconut goes in raw at the end.
- Time
- 27m
- Serves
- 4 as a side
- Effort
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Pav Bhaji
Vegetables cooked to collapse, mashed on the griddle with butter and spice, and served with soft rolls fried in the same pan.
- Time
- 1h 5m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
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Chapati
Two ingredients and a hot dry pan. The puff comes from steam, and it only happens if the dough is soft and properly rested.
- Time
- 1h 10m
- Serves
- 10 chapatis
- Effort
- Moderate
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Aloo Paratha
Stuffed flatbread. The filling must be dry and completely cool, or it tears the dough on the first roll.
- Time
- 1h 35m
- Serves
- 8 parathas
- Effort
- Moderate
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Khichdi
Rice and moong dal cooked together to a soft, savoury porridge. The dish people make when they are ill, and eat when they are not.
- Time
- 45m
- Serves
- 4
- Effort
- Easy
Kitchen notes
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Kitchen Notes
Heat in a Home Oven
Your oven's dial is a suggestion, its air is a poor conductor, and the shelf position matters more than the number. What actually transfers heat to food.
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Kitchen Notes
Why Browning Works
The Maillard reaction, caramelisation, and the reason a wet pan will never give you either. Three conditions, and how to hit all three.
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Kitchen Notes
Salt — When and How Much
Salt by percentage, not by pinch. One number covers meat, one covers pasta water, and the timing matters more than the quantity.
Equipment
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Measuring
A Digital Scale
Buy one today. Nothing else in a kitchen improves consistency this much for the money, and volume measurement of flour is genuinely unreliable.
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Measuring
An Instant-Read Thermometer
The second thing to buy after a scale. Doneness is a temperature, and every other cue — colour, firmness, time — is an unreliable proxy for it.
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Cutting
One Good Chef's Knife
Buy one, learn to sharpen it, and skip the block set entirely. Sharpness matters far more than price above about the £40 mark.