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It’s simple math… when 30 percent of a population of 1.3 billion people eat a vegetarian diet, there’s a good chance they know what they’re doing!
I was never a big fan of indian food due to the americanized version I grew up on, but once I tasted the real authentic stuff I fell in love. I’ve learned so many incredible techniques over the years when its comes to Indian cuisine, and i’m just starting to scratch the surface. This video should help you get started!
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1:20 – Essentials
3:28 – Spinach
7:05 – Butternut Squash
10:03 – Eggplant
13:07 – Flatbreads
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My former brother in law is Indian and I still dream of his cooking. 🤌
Hey hey buddy… was on that New Rockstars thread that got deleted, what’s up with that???? Should I have to be disappointed in Eric Voss?😞
Your ginger garlic paste looks homemade 🙂 is that a 50-50 ratio?
Even the non vegetarian population eats lots of vegetarian foods on the daily basis. Some of those people don't eat non veg food for the month of sharavan, diwali and different feativals. I have been vegetarian since birth and i am trying to be vegan but i can't let go of dairy products. But I try to substitute it as much as possible.
does anyone know how long you can store the garlic & ginger mixture?
Great video bro, but Damn that kitchen small. Looks like a NYC kitchen with closet sleeping space… lol
As an Indian, I can never understand why anyone would want to eat faux meat. I'm not a vegetarian but still about 70% of my meals are vegetarian. I never run out of options or crave meat/seafood/eggs when I am cooking veg food.A lot of our recipes(esp South Indian) are vegan unintentionally coz we do love our coconut.
If greens are not in season, use frozen stuff. The not-in-season stuff does not have the nutrients in-season stuff does, but frozen stuff does, because it was frozen when it was in season.
Ghee & Honey are said to be usable even after centuries!
12:44 it's called Baigan ka Bharta. Baigan is eggplant and bharta is something mushy that you get after you punch it regular.
Can you show how you puree garlic ginger?
This video has single-handedly got me into making curries and experimenting with Indian spices. Thanks so much for making this! I have cooked and enjoyed all the curries in this video. This style of cooking has been particularly useful for me, since I moved to a mostly vegetarian diet over a year ago.
We do the same with our spinach in the Netherlands, usually we mix the spinach with boiled potatoes afterwards. Mixing cooked-to-shit vegetables with cooked-to-shit potatoes is called a stamppot (literally translated as a stomped bowl😂). If it is spinach, it is stamppot spinazie, if it is leek it is stamppot prei, you get the naming; it is stamppot with the name of the vegetable haha. We usually eat it with meat/eggs and jus(closest thing is gravy).
One minor correction. Saag is actually mustard leaves. Palak is spinach.
when you add the dal, you should soak it for at least 2 hours before cooking if not overnight. it cooks faster and gives better results.
Watching it again after 3 years. Enjoying it just as much as the first time.
Tomato eggplant subji called "BHADTHU" IN Gujarat
"Curry powder" is an English concoction, a marketing scam on the "adventurous" foreigner to make Indian food by merely sprinkling that magic dust into whatever's in the pot and, "Voila!", you have Indian "curry".
SMH.
No Indian has, or will use, anything called "curry powder" in their kitchen.
Eyes will roll, tongues will cluck, much finger pointing if such a container (it used to be a small yellow tin) is EVER spotted in an Indian kitchen.
If you are stuck with meat you can never move to next stage of food evolution – Some great indian sage told me
If you want to make the real Indian veg dishes then please avoid onion and garlic always.
If you want to make the real Indian veg dishes then please avoid onion and garlic always.
❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿great inspirational vid love
Him: “Indian spice, they really go for it. I don’t think it’s necessary-“
Me: “HOW DARE YOU!”
"Shitty"? Using that word as a description of food you don't like puts an image in viewers' minds that mars your presentation. Stop.
Baingan Bharta
Egg plant dish = baingan ka bhurta ( bhurta of egg plant, bhurta may be a Mash!)
The moment you showed that you were gonna use ghee, eggplant and ginger garlic paste, I knew you had nailed the basics! Our garlic paste comes out a lot darker though, probably because of the different cultivars we use in either country😆. As far as the meat eating habits of Indians go, I think it's more veggie based because it's closer to it's traditional form than most western cooking. Meat consumption has intensified in the 20th century because of the availability of imported meat from easier international trade and I sincerely think that most Western, Chinese, Japanese or European cooking contained more veggies traditionally than is the case today ( Would you believe that the Japanese did not eat a whole lotta pork or beef until about 200 years ago because of the Buddhist belief in non violence?). Like the eggplant and spinach here, I think Americans also used to have a lot more pumpkin and squash filler in their dishes over a hundred years ago….though I could be wrong ;-(
If you want eggplant with fewer seeds, remember this jingle to tell the males (less seeds) from the females. The males have a circular spot on the bottom, the females have a slotted spot. So it's spots not slots when you go to buy them.
Thank you, Mike!
I love indian jamaican and Trinidadian food all I grew up on and I'm a new vegetarian and this helped so much.
That eggplant dish is called Baigan Ka Bharta in North…. You can roast in wood /coal and add roasted potato in mushy form ….cooking in coal heat imparts a different flavour…. Indian moms know how to time the spices and flame …..
Hello Mike! Thank you so much for your videos. I made my garlic ginger paste for the first time and its very green. Internet says it is safe to use still, but I'd like to know what you think.
Thanks and have a good day!
You should always soak the dal or lentils overnight before cooking them remove the soaked water wash it properly , they are easily digestible also it cooks faster , nice to see a foreigner trying india dishes..
That eggplant dish is called 'Baigan Bharta'
Leaving the cardamom seeds in the dish after oil infusion boggles my mind. I hate chomping down and finding one. haha
Thank you for sharing this budget friendly recipe. Budgeting better with my groceries has been heavy on my mind with all the rising prices. This kind of video is so helpful for me and I am sure many others right now. I try to budget best I can but I know I can always learn more. I make cooking videos too so you know I’m making lots of food so every penny I can save on groceries counts. I hope that we can continue to learn from each other. Never stop learning and growing!
1st Dish is Called 'Daal Palak'
3rd One is Called 'Bhurta'
As an Indian just I have seen the dishes first time😂😂😂
I love china doll!
The eggplant tomato dish looks like baingan bharta. That's one of my favorite Indian entrees.
Great stuff man! Btw, be careful using plastic in hot pans, boiling water etc. I'm talking about all the toxins in the plastic released when exposed to heat. Very bad for your body in the long run.
Same for all the exquisite Middle Eastern dishes cooked during Lent. A nice change from Indian if you have been having it many days in row.
In Trinidad we consider this a version of "Baigan Choka" 🇹🇹