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  Healthy protein cabbage After the onion gravy success, I was excited to find out who is next in the boxring. A cabbage. I have  afound a way to make my family love it - a lentil eg urad or moong (fried initially, adds crunch - learned from a friend's sister visiting then) in copious amounts and mandolin sliced cabbage I wanted to see if there was a different way to make it. I saw this split chickpea addition to it and wondered why I didnt think of it before. I know of a recipe with soaked split chickpea and onion curry (diced onions, but now I am thinking another recipe would be to give the special treatment to onions with a blend and then fried well - elevates any main ingredient even simple one like soaked split chickpea. oh no, now reimaging all the great food could have been if done well - thinking chole curry -- its like once you know a mistake and have tons and tons of papers, to go back and correct). In some months, when for religious reasons, people dont eat onion, t...

  Egg Malai Masala  Its fun when things turn out as they should. I pureed the onions and then cooked them well. I added the milk for the egg Malai Masala and made chicken curry with other half of the onion base. I used kasoori methi in both. Many times I have felt the onions grainy, but this time I got it right. Patience.

  cashew and coconut  chole curd in paneer When I looked at the two recipes, I realised that they both had onion and tomato base and once that is cooked, I could fork it off into individual curries, which made the operation easy. Due to the extra addition, each had their own identity. I would have tried the last week's recipes, but its not me to repeat recipes. There is always this divide between wanting it to come out in a known way and then wanting to try some new recipe. I am feeling great about the gravy curries, in terms of maintaining the proportion of the main item like paneer or chole. Isnt it to great to make some adjustments to your cooking style and see great results. 

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  chole curry  with cashew, poppy seeds, tomato and onions. What I learned with this gravy is to not add all the boiled chole and just maintain the ratio such that there is more gravy. It looked exactly like the video. I am getting the hang of gravies.  I made aloo curry with sesame seed paste.