Rajma, a spicy stew of red kidney beans, has always been on my mind. I’ve encountered delicious ones here and there – for instance one that my friend Shalini makes. When I ask her how and what, she says “It’s easy!” Armed with those words, along with a recipe in a tattered cookbook that calls rajma,…
Month: November 2010
Kala Chana: black lentil stew
My friend Antara tells me that she can’t cook. “It’s too stressful,” she tells me when I try to probe. “I should have ordered in,” she laments, when we arrive at her home, although an appetite whetting smell of roasted onions, ginger and garlic lingers tellingly in the air. “What did you make?” I ask,…
Calcutta Chow 