Indian Cooking Basics - Getting started with Indian cooking

Find tips and suggestions to get started on easy everyday Indian meals. It is impossible to cover the entire Indian culinary diaspora on this website.

As a South Indian native and as someone who cooks more North Indian / Punjabi dishes, the Indian recipes here will resonate more with South Indian and North Indian cuisine.

Cook until oil separates - Indian Basics

Homemade Ghee - Indian clarified butter

Homemade rice flour - Arisi mavu

Masala Dabba - Anjarai Petti { Essential South Indian spice ingredients list }

South Indian 101: Tempering in Indian cooking

Poriyal

The Magic Saucepan is a visual fete featuring healthy and seasonal dishes, focusing on the authentic, traditional vegetarian food from the South Indian subcontinent. This space is to debunk the 3 main myths that Indian recipes are just curries, spicy and complicated.

If this is your first time, start by browsing the tabs at the top of the page or you can go through the index to find recipes categorically.

Indian Cooking Basics - Getting started with Indian cooking

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