Indian Food and Auntie’s Cooking

Indian Food and Auntie’s Cooking

The first 3 weeks of my stay here in India I’ve been a strict vegetarian. I don’t mind since I grew up not eating meat on Mondays and Tuesdays and on Hindu holidays. I think one of India’s greatest skill sets is cooking. I just love Indian food, and everyone who knows me, knows I love a good curry. Auntie was so kind to cook me something new almost 3 times a day everyday while I stayed with her and wow, the diversity was amazing! Thank you Auntie! I’m quite pleased with the cooking style North India has presented to me and I’m looking forward to seeing how it varies from South India.

Pic 1 Aloo Parantha (Potato Flatbread)

Pic 2 Aloo Parantha with curd and butter (Potato flatbread)

Pic 3 Prasad for Diwali (Fruits, nuts, and sweets offerings to the Gods)

Pic 4 Palak Parantha (Spinach flatbread)

Pic 5 Aloo Parantha (Potato flat bread)

Pic 6 Aloo Parantha in the making (Potato flat bread)

Pic 7 Final product after frying with achar (Fried Potato flat bread with Spicy Pickled Lemon)

Pic 8 Doing sewa of applying Desi ghee on rotis for the sangat (general public) for langar in Amritsar

Pic 9 Bhrawan Da Dhaba (Brother’s Dhaba). Amritsari Kulcha (Tandoor) with Chana (Chickpeas)

Pic 10 Mcdonalds in Amritsar. McSpicy Challenger a Deep fried Cottage Cheese Concoction

Pic 11 Mcdonlads Indian Menu

Pic 12 Poha (Rice flakes) south Indian dish, raw then cooked

Pic 13 Finished dish poha with peas, corn, potatoes, curry leaves, onions, cilantro

Pic 14 Kadi Pakora with rice and salad, typical Punjabi dish

Pic 15 Roti, Kadi Pakora, Dahi Bhalla, salad, aloo methi, shalgam (turnip) sabzi, saag (spinach)

Pic 16 Breakfast on the train to New Delhi. Vegetable patties, bread, lemonade, tea