Saturday, February 12, 2011

Indian Food and Cooking Class!

The last evening in India, Des and I took a private cooking class with an amazing Indian chef, Jasmin. She held it out of her beautiful home and we learnt for a solid 3 hours all of our favourite dishes including byriani, dahl, vegetable kofta, chapatti, raita, spice-stuffed ladyfingers (or okra to us), chili fried fish (kingfish) and more! There was a serious party going on in my mouth as all of my taste buds were woken up--our tolerance for spicy food has certainly increased in these past few months---especially for Des who has always been a meat and potatoes kinda guy!  It was honestly the best food by far in our 3 months in India. Here are some photos of the class and the result---aswell as some other of our favourite meals in India! Although feeling nostalgic about leaving this upside-down beautiful, enchanting CRAZY place--we are taking with us an unbelievably enriching experience and are absolutely ready to move on and see the rest of the world! Trekking in Nepal-here we come!
Our gorgeous ingredients

The master chef, Jasmin

Beautiful Indian spices

Jasmin making vegetable kofta--grated coconut and cashew sauce


Whistling while he works--easy as pie
Dessie cooking up a beautiful broth!

Spice-stuffed lady fingers

Chili, tomato and purple onion raita

Des rolling out the chapatti

Chili fried kingfish--sooo tasty

Don't break the chapatti!


Time to enjoy the fruit--or curry of our labour!

The finished result!

Vegetable byriani on the train











Thali

Cashew chicken curry

Tandoori red snapper

Fresh passion fruit

Vegetable byriani

Tofu, gouda and spinach croissant to start the day

Blow your head off prawn vindaloo

Indian banana split!

Candied aniseed (they serve after every meal to help with digestion)

Channa masala

Amazing fresh fruit salad everywhere we went


Keralan breakkie

South-Indian masala dosa

Rainbow bananas

Spices-galore


Chinese fishing nets

Fish stall-sleepy cat



Mango and grated coconut kingfish curry




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