Family Recipe: Dhansak

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A staple of all the Irani restaurants, Dhansak is one of the most flavorful dishes out there. Here's our family's version of the vegetarian Dhansak. Enjoy!

Star Recipe: Bean Burrito

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A burrito consists of a tortilla wrapped around a filling. A burrito is a great meal because it has all the components of an everyday Gujarati meal (i.e. rotli-daal-bhaat-shaak) but with a Mexican taste, and in a convenient package.

Star Recipe: Chachi's Kitchen's Bateta jo shaak (Potato curry khoja style)

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Ismaili or Khoja cuisine is a branch of Mughlai cooking. Although a cuisine with roots in Lucknow and Hyderabad, it has some interesting Gujarati influences.

Recipe Review: Priya's Easy N Tasty Recipes - Multigrain Zucchini Rotis

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We don't get to use zucchini a lot except for tempuras and a few curries. Here's, what we thought, a pretty great way to include zucchini in your meal.

Recipe Review: For The Love of Cooking's Cream of Asparagus Soup

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Asparagus is hard to find in Mumbai. However, if you ever manage to get some, it only makes sense to cook them in simple ways that brings out their maximum flavor. The asparagus soup recipe we recently reviewed does that job well.

Family Recipe: Mexican Gumbo

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The recipe is a recreation of Qdoba's Mexican Gumbo so it does not quite qualify as a family recipe. Although just a soup, the amount of toppings make this a really filling meal after only a couple of bowls. The traditional Gumbo is a stew that is part-Lousianan and part-French. The recipe we have is a basic tortilla soup with all sorts of Mexican toppings. This makes it part-Texan, part-Mexican and part-junk food as well. Regardless of all the different parts, the result as a whole is deliciously complete.