Inspired by these two cookbooks and my shopping trip to the Indian grocery store, I made a few Indian-inspired meals recently. I had fun frying up pappodum to go with the meal, so I thought I’d share a little video for anyone who doesn’t know what it looks like.
Q:What is pappodum or papadum?
A: Lightly spiced fried yummy things made from lentil flour or other bean flours.
Check out Madhur Jaffrey’s professional video on cooking papadum here:
Here’s the Indian-inspired meal we had the pappadum with:
Happy Weekend Cooking!
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I’ve always felt daunted by cooking various ethnic cuisines on my own, but Indian Cooking Unfolded actually helped ease my fears. I’m not great in the kitchen anyway, but this book made preparing Indian dishes much more simple and straightforward than I thought it could be.
Yum – this looks delicious! I’ve been trying to use more and more indian flavors in my cooking. They’re so yummy and throw a nice curveball into the week!
I grew to love Indian cooking when I lived in the UK. I have that Iyer book and really need to cook more from it.
I should not have read this when I was hungry. That looks SO good. I haven’t had Indian food in years. The last time I had Indian food was when I made a dish that had corn on the cob. Can’t remember what it was. But it was delicious.
I like Indian food too! The array of spices is wonderful and I like all the vegetarian offerings. Pappadum is such a great name for a food, isn’t it? 🙂
The Vegetable Dal looks delicious.
The Dahl looks delicious. I so enjoy Indian food.
thank you,
I so love Indian cooking, and any cookbook that might make it easier is on my list. It would be fabulous to have a live-in Indian chef. Oh yes.
I did not know that, I learn something new all the time! As a matter of fact I had not heard of papadum before.
Oooh that looks like fun!! I really need to get a wok…but you know…one more kitchen thing and all. And one of these days I need to try some Indian food. Not sure what I find so intimidating about it–I guess just the different spices. Sigh.
And I know Cook it Up is going away–but these posts would still fit into Inspiration on Monday! If you remember (I know it’s tough even for ME to remember!), feel free to join in. 🙂
That looks delicious! How lovely!
If I knew how quick they took to make I might’ve suggested we forgo buying them ready-made! Definitely have to try this next time.