I have a fuzzy memory of this one time my dad asked my mom to make chhole for the millionth time. In my family, “chhole”, or channa, simply meant the gravy-simmered chickpea dish you generally see in Indian restaurants (fast food and regular), paired with bhature, the maida-based fried puffy bread, and sliced (not chopped,…
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honey & harissa carrot salad
A friend asked in one of my group chats recently about how to scale a recipe for 15 portions down to 3. My brain immediately started trying to divide all the quarters and thirds and tablespoons and teaspoons by 5. (Shoutout to all the Kumon math alums, and our ability to think we’re human calculators…
the non-recipe green chutney recipe (mint & cilantro)
We grew up with a healthy suspicion of restaurant sauces. Chutney, saunth, achar—the kinds that come in packets or in bowls in the center of the tables in restaurants—all of these were too soupy, too synthetically hued, and carried great risk of making us fall sick. No, we turned up our noses at these, in…
pass the pepper 