Ingredients: For dumpling wrappers: For filling: For garnish: Directions: In a large bowl, add the flour and add water gradually as required. Knead for 5-7 minutes until it’s very soft. When you poke the dough with your finger it should rise back up. Cover it with plastic wrap or a table cloth and leave it…
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Doro Wat
Ingredients: Directions: Heat a medium saucepan over medium-heat. Add the onions and cook stirring often. Add a little salt to the onions to help it sweat. Once the onions are translucent, add a tablespoon of oil and turn the heat to medium-low and cook the onions slowly till they are caramelized (dark brown shade). Make…
Naan
Naan is a very popular flatbread from India. It’s very popularly called “Naan” not “Naan bread”. Naan is bread so it’s like saying coffee-coffee. Ingredients: For garnish: Directions: Add water, milk, yogurt, oil, and powdered sugar in a large bowl and mix them well using a whisk. Add the all-purpose flour, the wheat flour, and…
Lamb Fahsa
We recently went to the wonderful hole-in-the-wall Yemeni resaturant (Bab-Al-Yemen) in Boston. I absolutely fell in love with this dish and I did some research and worked out this receipe and it turned out just as soothing. Ingredients: For Lamb Stew: For Hilba: For Sahauiq: For Serving: Directions: In a smalll bowl, soak the ground…
Kichri Quroot
Kichri Quroot is an Afghan dish that consists of shola (sticky rice), meatballs, and quroot (whey). It’s a hearty and loved dish all across Afghanistan. Ingredients: For the meatball mixture: For meatball sauce: For Shola (Rice): For garnish: Directions: Add all the meatball mixture ingredients into a large bowl and mix well either with hand…
Ground Beef Enchiladas
Ingredients: For the Salsa Roja: Dried Ancho Chilies (2 chilies) Dried Chipotle Chilies (4-6 chilies) Dried Cascabel Chiles (2 chilies) Dired Pasilla Chilies (1-2 chilies) Onions (2 medium; peeled and chopped) Plum Tomatoes (2; halved) Garlic (3 cloves; peeled) Dried Oregano Salt (to taste) Pepper (to taste) For Ground Beef Filling: Ground Beef (1-2 pounds)…
Bourbon Pecan Pie
Ingredients: For Pie Crust: All-purpose flour (2 1/4 cups) Salt (1 1/4 teaspoon) Sugar(1 tablespoon) Unsalted Chilled Butter (1 cup) Ice Water (1/2 cup) Pie Filling: Pecans (2 1/2 cups; roughly chopped) Eggs (3) Maple Syrup (1/4 cup) Light Corn Syrup (1 cup) Salt (3/4 teaspoon) Dark Brown Sugar (3/4 cup) Vanilla Extract (1 tablespoon)…
Breakfast Pizza
Pizza for breakfast? Why Not? Boston’s moving day finally got done a week back and after having moved thrice in less than a year; this was the first time I didn’t have to move houses and I can’t thank enough to the lords for this blessing! But that being said you have friends who are…
Pizza (Without Yeast)
Since the beginning of quarantine that one commodity that’s been very difficult to find in Boston is YEAST!!! The whole of Boston decided to start baking banana breads and Focaccia and at this time my craving for pizza was getting worse by the day. So I had to find a way to make pizza without…
Maqluba
Ingredients: Chicken (2 pounds; whole chicken cut into pieces) Onions (2 onions; one finely chopped and the second one cut into circles) Green Bell Pepper (1; chopped) Garlic (1 tablespoon; minced) Green onions (2-3; diced) Red Bell Pepper Eggplant (1) Tomato (1; cut into circles) Cauliflower (cut the florets in half) Potatoes (1-2 medium size…
The Ghee Spot 