Recipe (from Manjula's Kitchen) here.
Manjula's Kitchen is one of my favorite South Asian cooking sites. Her recipes and accompanying video instructions make her recipes easy to follow, and preparing Indian meals accessible. Most cooks of Indian origin estimate measurements without really knowing whether they used 1 tablesoon or 1 teaspoon. This becomes a problem if you are using say red chili powder, or you end up turning a dish neon yellow with too much turmeric. Her site is wonderful.
I've been toying with the idea of only cooking Indian foods for a month, where my main goal would be to try and cook the foods that I grew up with. I don't even prepare the foods I grew up with, and I miss them terribly.
This week we ate chole or channa (chickpeas) with spinach and I served it with some parathas and wild rice. The chole turned out delicious. The leftovers were devoured the next day. This took under 30 minutes to prepare. I reduced the oil to 1 T from 3 T, found the ginger essential, increased the salt, and used canned diced tomatoes. Boil-in-the-bag wild rice mix was a nice addition, and parathas heated up from the freezer (you can buy frozen parathas from a South Asian grocery store) rounded out the meal. Serve the chole with a side of yogurt.
Recipe (from Manjula's Kitchen) here.
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