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Serves : 3-4 You’ll need: 100 gms chicken, cut into bite-sized pieces  75 gms potatoes, sliced 1.5 tbsp njh Green Curry Paste  2 tbsp coconut oil  300 ml coconut milk  1 tsp fish sauce (optional) 1 tsp brown sugar 2 stalks lemongrass, crushed 5 kaffir lime leaves  Salt to taste Water Method: In a clay pot, add the coconut oil. Once it heats up, add the njh Green Curry paste and stir fry well. Add potatoes and roast them lightly. Add the chicken and fry it a bit. Add the coconut milk plus water (use the water to clean out the coconut milk carton twice and add it in). Once the gravy starts to heat through, add the fish sauce...

Serves 3-4 You’ll need: 300 gms cluster beans, chopped 100 gms fresh coconut, grated njh Mothership’s Meat/Seafood/Veg Mix 5 pods of garlic 3 sprigs of curry leaves 1/2 onion, diced 1 tsp mustard seeds Water, to cook Coconut, for tempering Rock salt, to taste Method: Cook the beans in a little water and salt. Make sure not to add too much water as the cooked vegetable along with the water will be added to the pan at a later stage.  While the beans are cooking, pound the garlic. Add the coconut and the spice mix to the garlic and mix it together well, with your hand. Heat some coconut oil. Add the mustard seeds, onion and the curry leaves and...

Serves : 6-8 You’ll need: 1 radish, large, chopped into discs 1 carrot, chopped into discs 1 potato, large, cubed 3 drumsticks, peeled and chopped into 3” length 2 eggplants, cubed 250 gms okra, chopped 2 tomatoes, chopped 5 pods of garlic 12 Sambar onions, peeled 1 cup Toor dal, cooked in pressure cooker 3 tbsp coconut oil 1/2 onion, chopped 6 sprigs of curry leaves 1 tsp mustard seeds 1 tsp turmeric powder Coriander, chopped,  to taste Rock salt, to taste  Method: Take a pot. Add the oil. Once it heats, add in the mustard seeds followed by the regular and sambar onions, and the curry leaves. Next, put in the okra and roast it. Add the rest of...

Last week I went hunting for some fish and thanks to the torrential rains, there wasn’t much on display to be happy about. Just the usual fare – Mackerels, Pomfrets, King Fish (Surmai), Indian Salmon (Rawas), Prawns & Crabs.