{"id":1951,"date":"2012-03-14T20:52:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T20:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2013-02-02T18:21:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:21:16","slug":"atuls-kochars-simple-recipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1951","title":{"rendered":"Atul&#8217;s Kochar&#8217;s simple recipes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Indian cooking I do is based on my mum&#8217;s recipes.  The problem is that they are guidelines rather than recipes so I don&#8217;t get consistently good results.  Besides, I&#8217;ve eaten my mum&#8217;s food for most of my life.  It&#8217;s time I tried something a bit different.  I found some <a href='https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Atul_Kochar_easy_recipes.pdf'>easy Indian recipes by Atul Kochar<\/a>.  I made his coconut fish curry and home-style lentils and sauteed some sprouts in an Indian style.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1489edit.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1489edit-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sea bream, lentils and sprouts cooked Indian style\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1489edit-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/IMG_1489edit-1024x770.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"clear:both;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>18 Oct 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Curried sprouts<\/strong><br \/>\nRemove outer leaves of sprouts as usual, then parboil until they are about a minute away from becoming tender.  Drain off, and when they are cool enough to handle, cut each sprout into 1-2mm thick slices.  Take a non-stick pan with a lid and pop some mustard seeds in oil, then add tumeric, chilli, garlic and ginger paste.  Stirfry the slice sprouts in this tempering, adding a little water to help with coating properly.  Add salt to taste and knob of butter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the Indian cooking I do is based on my mum&#8217;s recipes. The problem is that they are guidelines rather than recipes so I don&#8217;t get consistently good results. Besides, I&#8217;ve eaten my mum&#8217;s food for most of my life. It&#8217;s time I tried something a bit different. I found some easy Indian recipes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utilitygirl.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}