I’ve been cooking the best stuff in a long time... A proud cook speaking... 😄
Discovered that it is trivially easy to make *paratha*. Instead of chapati flower, I use lokal “Bauernmehl” which consists of 88% wheat and 12% rye. Instead of ghee I used butter. For two people, use 200g flower, add salt, water, some butter, knead, let it rest. Then make eight pieces of bread: Take a small ball of dough, add liquid butter, roll-out thin (circle), paste with some liquid butter, fold (half-circle), paste with some liquid butter, fold (quarter-circle), and roll-out again. In a pan with even more butter, bake for about half a minute on each side – just bake until they look yummy! 😄 I also tried using two dates, cutting them up into tiny pieces, and adding that to the dough, trying to recreate that fruity taste of peshwari nan. (I wonder what I could use instead of dates...)
Also made some terrific *tomato chutney*: 5 tomatos, some fresh ginger, 60g raisins, 3 soup soons of brown cane sugar (the recipe specified “jaggery” as an alternative, but I didn’t look for it). Cook with ⅛l of water for about 10min, add ½ tea spoon of kurkuma, fry some panch puran mix in oil – fennel seeds, mustard seeds (rai), cummin (jeera), fenugreek (methi), and onion seeds (kalonji, “schwarzer Kümmel”) – and add to the tomatos, then roast (no oil) ½ tea spoon of fennel seeds and another ½ tea spoon of cummin, crush (I just used a big spoon to crush the stuff on a wooden tablet), and also add to the tomatos. Then add the juice of ½ lemon, and let it cool. The lemon juice and the raisins really develop a very fruity aroma.
Did an *omelette curry* to go with it: Make omelette with 3 eggs and some salt, cut into stripes, keep for later. Fry an onion or two until it is really brown (different taste!), add salt, 1 tea spoon each of kurkuma, cummin, paprika and cilantro (i only had fresh cilantro, but I love its smell – reminds me of Thai food – so I just added fresh cilantro leaves at the end instead). Take potatoes for two people, peel, cut into small pieces, and add them to the mix. Add some water, let it cook for about 10min. Add omelette stripes, cook another 5min.
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