What are some easily prepared and inexpensive Indian dishes?
Indian recipes are often intimidating because they have long lists of ingredients and involved preparations. Some of them have unusual ingredients, like asafeotida and amchur powder or green mangoes. Well, here’s a secret: if you don’t have an ingredient, you can just leave it out. Seriously. It’ll taste different, but that’s not necessarily bad. Indian recipes are incredibly flexible, and no two Indian cooks do it the same way. Nobody’s ever going to taste your curry and say, “Gosh, it really needs some amchur powder.” You will need a set of basic spices which really should be available at your local grocery store: turmeric, coriander, cumin, mustard seed. Some garam masala is useful, too, but it’s really just a spice mixture of other readily-available spices if your grocery store doesn’t have it. (Follow link for a recipe). Don’t be intimidated by the long ingredients lists. A lot of them are just spices, which
