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GangaToday's blast from the past from my kitchen is one of the rare Indian non-dessert recipes that uses milk. This recipe is one that can substitute the milk for coconut milk if that is more to your taste. I like it either way, or with a mix of milk and coconut milk.In India, milk is usually reserved for desserts, and in Ayurveda the consumption of milk with vegetables is not encouraged. In this recipe, I imagine that home cooks would use milk thickened with rice flour in place of coconut milk if that was not available.It is best made with Indian tender pumpkin, but I have also made it with a number of our pumpkin varieties and quite love it. It is a very simple dish – pumpkin, seasoned, in milk with a simple tadka. But simple is best, no?The recipe is one of <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MeenakshiAmmal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeenakshiAmmal</a>’s from the first volume of her cook books <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CookAndSee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CookAndSee</a> – very traditional Tamil recipes. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#food</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TamBram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TamBram</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndianFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianFood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/TamilFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TamilFood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FromTheArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FromTheArchives</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FromTheKitchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FromTheKitchen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Vegetarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vegetarian</a>

GangaYou know I ❤️ to do food prep so there is always something in the fridge and pantry to feed hangry people (including me!).So it was a partial restock day today, in between work bits.💚 Yuuuuge bowl of Green Tabbouleh to last the next few days, from <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Ottolenghi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ottolenghi</a>'s <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Falastin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Falastin</a>. I made with quinoa instead of burghul.💛 Big pan of Urad Dal with tomatoes made - a couple of serves in the fridge and a couple in the freezer. From <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/101VegetarianDelicacies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#101VegetarianDelicacies</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/SubramanyamRajalakshmy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SubramanyamRajalakshmy</a> I'll add some greens to it to change it up for future meals.🤍 Cumin rice, for tonight and some for a future meal.💜 Roasted eggplants from freezer defrosting for a Sth Indian chutney tomorrow, from <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CookAndSee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CookAndSee</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MeenakshiAmmal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeenakshiAmmal</a>. <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/IndianFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IndianFood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/PalestinianFood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PalestinianFood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Food</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Vegetarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vegetarian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FromTheKitchen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FromTheKitchen</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/FromTheGarden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FromTheGarden</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WhatIAmCooking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIAmCooking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/WhatIAmEating" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhatIAmEating</a>

GangaCookbook browsing today...<a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/CookAndSee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CookAndSee</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Part1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Part1</a> by <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/MeenakshiAmmal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MeenakshiAmmal</a>I found this book at the back of dusty shelves of an Indian shop as they packed up to move premises (to St Bernard's Road, but sadly they have retired now). I loved that Alladins-Cave style of shop, and found many treasures there.I grabbed it and it's 3 other "parts", and it became my primary South Indian/Tamil cooking teacher and mentor. It focused my efforts to learn about Indian food and Indian cooking. I made sambar after sambar, then rasam after rasam, then kuzhambu after kuzhambu, ..... and slowly cooked my way through this first book in the series.This book is not for the feint-hearted. You do have to be a detective. Ammal wrote it in the 1950's for Tamil women, so there is a lot of assumed knowledge. And her initial writing style is like a maze. No joke. Sometimes I had to rewrite the recipe by hand to understand the steps and options.I class it amongst my most treasured cookbooks.ALTs are not working atm here. Thus: The cover of the book, with a range of South Indian/Tamil vegetarian foods including dosa, vada, idli, pongal, chickpeas, burfi, rasam, and more...<a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Cookbookbrowsing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cookbookbrowsing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Food</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/Vegetarian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vegetarian</a> <a href="https://mastodon.au/tags/cookbooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cookbooks</a>

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