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Our July Cookbook Club selection is Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a street food tour through India, and we’ve been looking forward to it ever since we heard that author Chetna Makan was coming out with a new cookbook! We loved her on “Great British Bake Off” and her first cookbook, The Cardamom Trail was full of many flavorful and stunningly photographed dishes. For this book, she returned home to India and the street food that she grew up on. The book has four chapters that are organized by cities that make up the four corners of India – Chennai, Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta), Mumbai and Delhi. The fifth chapter? All masala and chutney recipes. Some recipes will look or sound familiar, others will not…but the photos and descriptions of the food will make you want to eat (or drink!) all of them. If you love Indian food or any form of street food, this is the cookbook for you! This recipe is a wonderful example how curries in the North of India use lots of fragrant and aromatic spices to make this mouth-watering vegetarian curry made with chickpeas.

From the author: “One of the ultimate curries of the North, this chickpea curry is often paired with Bhatura, a deep-fried flatbread sold piping hot originally on the streets of Delhi but, now, all over the country. This combination should be on everyone’s must-try list when visiting India. You can keep it light by eating this curry with rice or chapatti, if preferred.”

Book credit: Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a street food tour through India  by Chetna Makan, is published by Mitchell Beazley in the UK www.octopusbooks.co.uk. Image credit: Nassima Rothacker. Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a street food tour through India is the July 2018 selection for the World Spice Cookbook Club. Chai, Chaat & Chutney: a street food tour through India is currently available for purchase online.


 4 Comments

  1. Rahul says:

    You use the whole cardamom pods of each color? Rather than take the seeds out? Thanks.

    • Jamie says:

      Yes. Typically in dishes like this, they will use the whole pods, then remove (or eat around) them when the dish is finished. Think of it like a bay leaf…

  2. Rahul says:

    Thanks for the quick response. Why not add hing to this recipe?

    • Jamie says:

      You could absolutely add hing/asafoetida to this recipe, if you so choose. This recipe is reprinted from Chetna Makan’s cookbook, and her publishing company let us post it on our blog. Since it is her recipe, we did not change anything from how she wrote it. Many people modify recipes to suit their tastes or ingredients on hand. That’s the fun way to cook and exercise creativity.

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