Secret Ingredients

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Do you have a secret ingredient that you use in every single dish? Maybe a family secret recipe… please share…

My fiancee is an excellent cook and i’m always trying to make new dishes and perfect my cooking…

… I use cajun spices in a lot of my dishes, and I have tried adding mint flakes in a few…

What’s your secret?

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Secrate in every dish not any so far :hmmm:..but yes i use achar masala for all Daals and it turn out very yummy !

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imli ki chutney for curries.....I like the tanginess it gives

If I don't have that.....then lemon.....chilli sauce.....or achar masala

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Those are good tips Kinzz and redvelvet...

BTW how are you RV?

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Agree. My mom uses the achar gosht masala…when making achar goshth obviously. But sprinkle that in daal…and even other dishes…and it’s soo YUM!

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Hey DB :)

I got your PM.....read it during work ( I think)....and then got busy with grading and lesson plans and what have you.

AH, I'm doing good. How are you?

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:k:
I started adding , achar masala, fish masla, qorma masala and you are right it turns out so good so my wife uses that trick now to make daals.

In some desi BBQ , I add jaifal , jawatri and kewra water.

In kheer or firni I add that thick cream which is very popular in Middle East and known by the name Polk/Bolk , then I found out that it is sold at American markets too a lot cheaper.

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I dont understand why do we use kewra watra?? ?:hmmm:

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i will try this…:hmmm:

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It makes it smell good and more appetizing. It depends on your taste , in Pakistan they do that at famous BBQ places.

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s'all good hit me up when you have a chance!

Me too !

What's Kewra water?

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                    An extract  distilled from pandanus flowers and used to flavor  meats, drinks, and desserts in India and Southeast Asia.                    
                                                                                                                                                                            Ingredient                                          
                                                            **Season: **                                                    available year-round                                            
                                                                                                                                                                        **Substitutions: **                                 kewra essence (more concentrated) OR rose water

[FONT=verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif]escription:
An extract distilled from pandanus flowers and used to flavour meats, drinks, and desserts in India and Southeast Asia.

How to select:
Kewra flowers have a sweet, perfumed odour with a pleasant quality similar to rose flowers, but kewra is more fruity. The aqueous distillate (kewra water, pandanus flower water) is quite diluted; it can be used by the teaspoon, often even by the tablespoon.

Use:
Kewra Water with its unique distinct flavour is used primarily to enhance the taste of Indian Sweet and Dessert Dishes, such as Barfi and Rassomalai

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Can you get it from desi stores or american?

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Desi stores only.

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So you just add it to the meat when seasoning and mixing?

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You add just a bit , a teaspoon full or more depending on the quantity of food. But you add it after the dish is cooked and little cooled down. If you put it in sizzling hot or before cooking , it will get evaporated and you will not get that aroma.

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Oh and yes chaat masala is a dish saver for desi dishes , you can mix it with non desi dishes too. So if you think that something did not turn out as good as you thought it should have , in fact it is ruined . Add some chaat masala to it.
It works every time.

You can invent many new dishes by mixing chaat masala to anything.

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i add kewra water in biryani.

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my cousin adds chat masala in bhigar.

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So you add the kewar water after the dish is cooked or barbequed?