The Thai sweet chili sauce is known as Nam Chim Kai in Thailand . It is easily available in in bottles in most Asian food stores, but the recipe is so simple that you can easily make it at home. Much healthier version with no preservatives added. Thai sweet chili sauce makes a superb condiment for many… Continue reading Sweet Chili Sauce
Category: Spices
“Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.”
“Chili, spice of red Thursday, which is the day of reckoning. Day which invites us to pick up the sack of our existence and shake it inside out. Day of suicide, day of murder.”
“Fenugreek, Tuesday’s spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.”
“Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.”
― Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, The Mistress of Spices
Sri Lankan Curry Powder
INGREDIENTS : 1/2 cup Coriander (Dhania) seeds 1/4 cup Cumin (Zeera) seeds 1 tablespoon Fennel (Sauf) seeds 1/2 teaspoon Fenugreek (Methi) seeds 1 Cinnamon (Dal chini ) stick ( 3′ inch) 8 Cloves (Laung) 1/2 teaspoon Cardamom (Elaichi) seeds 15 curry leaves 1 tsp Pepper corns 2 teaspoons chilli powder METHOD To make this curry… Continue reading Sri Lankan Curry Powder