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Posts tagged “Pantry cooking”
17 Degchi posts about pantry cooking, newest first. Latest: Leftover Cooked Chickpeas: What to Make With Half a Pot. Oldest: What to Cook Today With What's in Your Fridge. You soaked and boiled the whole bag and now there is a lot left. Storage rules, freezing, and four dishes from our recipes that turn leftover chickpeas into dinner.
Leftover Cooked Chickpeas: What to Make With Half a Pot
You soaked and boiled the whole bag and now there is a lot left. Storage rules, freezing, and four dishes from our recipes that turn leftover chickpeas into dinner.
Leftover Bread Slices: Five Desi Ways to Use a Stale Loaf
Half a loaf going hard is a common kitchen problem. Five uses that actually work in a desi kitchen, with timings, and what not to do with mouldy slices.
What Can I Cook With a Bunch of Spinach (Palak)?
Spinach shrinks to a fraction of its size when cooked. How to wash and measure it, plus six uses in daal, aloo palak, saag, paratha dough and more.
What Can I Cook With Cauliflower (Gobi)? Beyond Aloo Gobi
A whole cauliflower is more than one dish. Aloo gobi done properly, florets in pakoras and khichdi, and what to do with the stalk and leaves most people throw away.
Five-Ingredient Dinners From the Pantry (Salt and Oil Don't Count)
Short ingredient lists make weeknights easier, but only if you agree on what counts. Here are the rules we use, and dinners that hold up under them.
What Can I Cook With Yogurt? 9 Drinks, Curries and Sweets From Our Recipes
Yogurt (dahi) is a drink, a marinade, a curry base and a dessert starter. Nine dishes from our recipes, how to keep it from splitting, and how long it lasts.
What Can I Cook With Chickpeas? 7 Dishes, Dried or Tinned
A tin or a bag of chickpeas can become a curry, a salad, a dip or a street snack. Seven dishes from our recipes, which ones work with tinned and which need dried.
What Can I Cook With Okra (Bhindi)? One Reliable Dish and What to Serve With It
Our library has exactly one okra recipe, bhindi masala, so this post goes deep on it: the dry-and-fry method that avoids slime, storage, and what to put on the plate beside it.
What Can I Cook With Minced Meat (Keema)? 8 Dishes and Safe Handling
Minced meat is the fastest meat in the freezer. Eight dishes from our recipes, from a 40-minute shimla keema to chapli kabab, with safe temperatures and storage.
What Can I Cook With Paneer? 8 Dishes, From a 25-Minute Bhurji to Malai Kofta
One block of paneer, eight dinners. Each dish comes from a real recipe with metric and US amounts, plus the soft-paneer tricks and storage rules that matter.
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