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    Essential Indian recipes to cook at home

    Charged with potato peeling and kneading, Tejal Rao, California Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, recalls helping with the cooking churned out of her grandparents' Indian kitchen.

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    By Evan Kleiman • Mar 20, 2020 • 1 min read

    Charged with potato peeling and kneading, Tejal Rao, California Restaurant Critic for the New York Times, recalls helping with the cooking churned out of her grandparents' Indian kitchen. Drawing from her childhood as well as consulting cookbooks and home cooks, she performs the near-impossible task of cataloging her ten essential Indian recipes.

    The full episode

    3 of 6
    Letter to the Good Food community
    1. 3:37Simmering up bean recipes while you’re hunkered down
    2. 15:45Cooking with pantry staples during social distancing
    3. 22:27Essential Indian recipes to cook at homeYou’re reading this
    4. 31:19Cooking with kids while holed up at home
    5. 38:40Restaurants adapt in the wake of LA’s shutdown
    6. 47:13Essential services and new guidelines on farmers markets
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      Evan Kleiman

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      Laryl Garcia

      Senior Director, Good Food

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    The full episode

    3 of 6
    Letter to the Good Food community
    1. 3:37Simmering up bean recipes while you’re hunkered down
    2. 15:45Cooking with pantry staples during social distancing
    3. 22:27Essential Indian recipes to cook at homeYou’re reading this
    4. 31:19Cooking with kids while holed up at home
    5. 38:40Restaurants adapt in the wake of LA’s shutdown
    6. 47:13Essential services and new guidelines on farmers markets
    Back to Good Food