Tag: Lentils
Mango Lentil Soup/Aam Dal – The Summer Combat
Summer is slowly waltzing into Dubai. A few more days and suddenly the Celsius scale would be touching the 40s on a regular basis. I have spent so many summers in Dubai, yet the temperature in any random summer day still shocks me every time I know the exact magnitude of it. Conversations with other mums on school runs during the summer while picking … Read More Mango Lentil Soup/Aam Dal – The Summer Combat
Aam Dal or Mango Lentil Soup – A summer combat
Aam Dal or the Mango Lentil Soup is very easy to make. Green mangoes are also therapeutic in nature and keeps the body temperature down, precisely why the recipe must have originated in some Bengali kitchen during the sweltering summer heat. Summer is slowly waltzing into Dubai. A few more days and suddenly the celsius scale would be touching the 40ºC on a … Read More Aam Dal or Mango Lentil Soup – A summer combat
Daal Maharani Befitting the Queen (And Also Us) From Yak & Yeti – Kathmandu, Nepal
Daal Maharani. Maharani denotes the queen. Can a name be more regal? Perhaps not. Previously, I had dragged the recipe of Sikarni Raan/Marinated Lamb Shank out of the kitchen of the hotel that we stayed in by the method of incessant persuasion. Not that the staff of the restaurant was any less courteous. But there were too many diners vying to catch their attention … Read More Daal Maharani Befitting the Queen (And Also Us) From Yak & Yeti – Kathmandu, Nepal