Tips for great desi cooking

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Re: Tips for great desi cooking

@lafuriaroja

So in the western world when I cook dishes there are many ways for me to improve the dish and make it super delicious by using various cooking techniques i.e. adding basil to pasta sauce right at the end or cooking onions at a constant heat so they carmelize nicely etc. When it comes to desi cooking, most people’s cooking I eat is good (including my mums) but I’ve only know a few people who make amazing desi food. And then when you ask how they do it everyone chalks it up to ‘haat ka maza’ which I’m sure is true to some extent but there’s obviously some skills and techniques to making food taste that good which you should be able to learn through practice and knowledge. So does anyone here make amazing desi food? And what are the basic techniques you use to get that perfect flavour?

Lafu, no doubt practice is important .. but I have noticed that when one cooks mindlessly and without concentration, they will hardly learn the tactics and various factors that influence the food … everything matters .. for example:

• Adding the spices one by one can make a huge difference to the taste ..
• Ensuring the onions get done properly before adding ginger garlic to it
• occasionally roasting the whole spices in oil before adding onion for frying, so that the salan base becomes aromatic , eg korma
• adding yoghurt at the right time in the salan so that the gravy becomes thick …