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    How-To

    The How-To category provides comprehensive guides on a variety of topics related to Indian cooking. Whether you're seeking insights into cooking techniques (How-To: Cook any Indian Dal), selecting essential cooking tools (How-To: Buy The Best Dosa Pan), orchestrating delightful food gatherings (How-To: Host a Chaat Party), or learning about culinary traditions (How-To: Eat with Your Hands) our How-To section offers detailed instructions and tips that support the recipes on the website.

    • A photo with four glass cups of gulab jamuns. 3 of the glasses have an x icon indicating that those are mistakes. 1 glass has a green check mark indicating it is the correct way to make a gulab jamun.
      Common Gulab Jamun Mistakes and Tips for Solving Them
    • Photo of four Indian dal based dishes. Top left is simple moong dal cooked on the stovetop, top right is spinach dal cooked in instant pot, bottom left is pumpkin sambar, and bottom right is chow chow kootu - a dal and lentil stew.
      How-to: Cook Any Indian Dal
    • A close up of table decor for a chaat party. It includes a sign for how to make bhel puri as well as ingredients for chaat in the background.
      Throwing an Indian Chaat Party at Home
    • Overhead shot of a chaat-cuterie board with all of the ingredients to compose a chaat
      Ideas for Indian Style Chaat-cuterie Board
    • A finger pointing to red spots in the cooked dhokla. These spots indicate pockets of baking soda build up in the dhokla.
      Common Dhokla Mistakes and Tips for Solving Them
    • A banana leaf with a South Indian meal on it. The top has salt, applam (papad), indian pickle, milagai podi (gun powder), cabbage poriyal, and a dessert cashew bite. The bottom has rice with dal on top and yogurt on the right side.
      Guide to: Banana Leaf Meals
    • A tadka sizzling in a saucepan with cumin seeds, mustard seeds, fresh chili, and curry leaves.
      How to Make Tadka
    • A series of four photos showing the steps of eating thayir sadam (yogurt rice) with your hands. First photo shows the hand reaching for food, the second shows the index finger reaching for the pickle to mix with the yogurt rice, the third photo shows the hands pursing the food, and the last photo shows the rice picked up from the plate.
      How to: Eat Indian Food with Your Hands

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    Indian Food Science

    • Which rice is the best for making dosas. Four cups with ponni rice, idli rice, basmati rice, and jasmine rice on a plate.
      What Rice Yields the Best Dosa?
    • Crispy puris for pani puri
      Crispy Puris for Pani Puri
    • 12 brands of ghee spread on parchment paper with the names of the brand above them in marker. Describing the brands from top to bottom and from left to right. Deep brand ghee is on top with a liquidy and grainy consistency that is white. Laxmi brand is creamy and pale white. Amul brand is grainy but solid and also pale. Next row has simple truth organic, 365 foods, and O Organics. Simple truth is liquidy, light yellow, and grainy. 365 foods is grainy, liquidy, and yellow. O organics is yellow and liquidy. Next row has organic valley that is smooth, creamy, and pale yellow. Ancient organics is creamy and light yellow. 4th & heart is light yellow and creamy. Nanak is bright yellow, grainy, and liquidy. Pure Indian foods is grainy, slightly liquidy, and light yellow. Last but not least is homemade ghee made from kerry gold butter and it is liquidy, slightly liquidy, and darker yellow.
      Best Brands of Ghee To Buy
    • A photo with four glass cups of gulab jamuns. 3 of the glasses have an x icon indicating that those are mistakes. 1 glass has a green check mark indicating it is the correct way to make a gulab jamun.
      Common Gulab Jamun Mistakes and Tips for Solving Them

    Indian Cocktails/Mocktails

    • Nimbu pani cocktail with limes and lime zest in the background
      Spicy Nimbu Pani Cocktail | Indian Lime Drink
    • A brown hand holding lychee rose mocktail in a glass with pink hued glasses in the background.
      Lychee Rose Mocktail
    • Indian style watermelon juice with chaat masala
      Indian Style Watermelon Juice with Chaat Masala
    • Gulab jamun cocktail or a saffron gin cocktail in a coupe class with a strand of saffron on the top.
      Gulab Jamun Cocktail (Saffron Gin Cocktail)

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