Showing posts with label indian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indian. Show all posts

August 20, 2011

chila: the original gluten free pancake

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A friend had us over for dinner last night. She is bravely transitioning into a life free of gluten (wheat, barley, rye, etc) and since we like a good challenge, we offered to make a gluten-free flat bread.

But it actually turned out to be a crazy easy endeavor - thank you internet!  No, we did not recreate naan with all kinds of alternative flours (rice flours, potato flour, xanthan gum, tapioca starch, and so on) because there already exists a traditional Indian pancake called chila (or cheela or cheelay) that is very simply made of chickpea flour (aka garbanzo flour or gram flour)!  Here is the recipe that we used.

July 9, 2011

aloo mattar

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We are swimming in peas from our garden so we made this classic Indian dish of potatoes and peas.