I’m a cooking fool, part 2

[77nick77]

Made a great Mexican dish today. It was fast and simple in my instant pot pressure cooker. I’ve been cooking a lot of quinoa dishes lately but I’m going to take a break from quinoa. I printed out several recipes for Chinese food, those should be good.

[Jake]

I have been pigging out with pumpkin pie today.

[rhizome]

Ive been perfecting my mung dal recipe lately. For anyone curious this is what i have:

per 1 cup cooked split mung beans:

3 tbsp ghee

1 tbsp minced garlic

For tadka:
1 pinch hing powder
1 tsp cumin
2 tsp coriander
1/2 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp kashmiri red chilli powder
1/2 tsp clove
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp fennel
2 tsp salt

2 dried red chillies

dash parsley, curry leaves, kasoori methi

1. Heat ghee in a large kadai or wok

2. Add tadka spices, simmer until they form a thick paste (approx 1 minute)

3. Stir in minced garlic and chillies, simmer 30-60 seconds on medium heat

4. Pour in cooked mung beans (if necessary add water according to preference), stir in parsley, curry, and kasoori methi (crush curry and kasoori methi in palm before adding), cook until water steams

Optionally serve over rice

I personally like to cook my rice with caraway seeds, parsley, and bay leaves

[ZombieMombie]

I’ve been making a lot of Chinese inspired dishes. Just tonight we had sauteed chicken and broccoli with sweet and sour sauce with egg rolls on the side.

I hardly every fry the chicken because that adds too much oil.

A good sauce for beef and broccoli is 1/2 cup soy sauce with 1/2 cup brown sugar and a tablespoon mustard. I use the splenda brown sugar.

[77nick77]

Sounds good. Safeway has been out of Splenda brown sugar for like two months now.

[EverDream]

I’m terrible at cooking. Whenever I see a recipe with more than 3 ingredients and 2 steps, I might as well just put the wet ingredients in a blender, not put the top on and turn it on high for all the good it would do to do anything else…

I once burned a peanut butter sandwich… If you like where you live, do not let me cook there.

[ZombieMombie]

Can you get to a Super Walmart? They almost always have it. And they have a good Asian section.

[77nick77]

Hey, thanks for the tip. It’s about 7 miles away but I might make it over there.

[ZombieMombie]

You can stock up!

[Qwerty]

Currently I’m making a Indian curry from scratch. Havnt done it in ages.

[oolaloola]

Pressure cookers are awesome appliances. I love mine.