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    Home » Recipes » Make-Ahead Recipes

    Make-Ahead Recipes

    Indian food lends itself to making dishes ahead. Especially meat or poultry curries even benefit from an overnight rest in the refrigerator. The added time allows the spices to mix and mingle and mellow together for an even better dish. Besides curries, bread can be frozen and heated just when needed. Examples are an easy yeasted naan recipe or one of my favorite curries, coconut lamb curry (Madras-style).

    Spicy, crunchy served up in clear glass bowl with beaded rim.

    Sweet and Spicy Nuts

    Served in a basket garnished with a flutter of chopped cilantro and sprinkling of onion or nigella seeds.

    Easy Naan with Yeast

    Served on a bed of fluffy basmati rice and garnished with a fluttering of bright green cilantro.

    Fragrant Rogan Josh Curry

    Served over rice with a dollop of raita and wedges of lime.

    Comforting Coconut Chickpea Curry

    Cookies stacked on a plate with a cold glass of milk.

    Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

    Served in a pretty red and white rice bowl garnished with bright green cilantro.

    Fluffy Basmati Rice Two Ways

    Served with a side of paratha, a flutter of cilantro leaves, and wedges of lime.

    Instant Pot Chicken Tikka Masala

    Served with a dusting of fresh cilantro with white cubes of paneer peaking out of the bright green sauce.

    Palak Paneer ~ Homemade & Healthy

    Indian Rice Pudding (Kerala Payasam) Beautifully garnised with nuts, raisins and saffron and ready to serve.

    Indian Rice Pudding (Kerala Payasam)

    In a pretty red bowl and ready be dolloped on top of a dessert.

    Easy Coconut Whipped Cream

    Roasted, salty and sweet nuts all served up in a gold rimmed bowl.

    Easy Sweet and Salty Nuts

    Dished out into jars for individual servings garnished with berries, peanuts, and chocolate shavings.

    Vegan Chocolate Pudding Two Ways

    Mini burgers all dressed up with tomatoes, cheese, sev and masala chips.

    Chicken Burger Kerala-Style

    Layered Indian Flatbread (Kerala Parotta) Stacked on a pretty plate ready to be devoured.

    Layered Indian Flatbread (Kerala Parotta)

    Cabbage Stir-Fry (Kerala Thoran) Served in a pretty red bowl garnished with fried curry leaves.

    Indian Cabbage Stir Fry with Coconut (Kerala-Style)

    Cucumber Raita (Kerala Pachadi) Presented for serving in a gold-rimmed bowl and showered with a tadka of curry leaves, a dry red chili and mustard seeds.

    Cucumber Raita (Kerala Pachadi)

    Sambar Recipe (Kerala) Served with flourish of toasted cashews, raisins and a ducting of coarsely chopped cilantro.

    Sambar Recipe (Kerala)

    Instant Pot Shrimp Biryani (Kerala-StyInstant Pot Shrimp Biryani (Kerala-Style) Shrimp biryani ready to be served in a pretty pot dressed with slices of lemon, topped with toasted cashews and raisins, and a dusting of fresh herbs.

    Instant Pot Shrimp Biryani Kerala-Style

    Simple Ghee Rice (Nei Choru) - Ghee rice beautifully garnished with cashews, raisins, birista (browned onions) and a flutter of cilantro.

    Simple Ghee Rice (Nei Choru)

    Paleo Coconut Almond Cookies (Gluten-Free) Stacking on a pretty green plate awaiting tea.

    Paleo Coconut Almond Cookies (GF)

    Chewy Coconut Almond Cookies (Gluten Free) plate of cookies dressed up with chocolate, coconut, spiced sugar, and nuts.

    Chewy Coconut Almond Cookies (Gluten Free)

    Served up with fried curry leaves and some rice on the side.

    Creamy Toor Dal in the Instant Pot (Parippu Curry)

    Cardamom Pumpkin Cheesecake (No-Bake) four small jars of cheesecake all garnished differently: with candied pumpkin seeds, whipped cream and whole ginger cookies

    Cardamom Pumpkin Cheesecake (No-Bake)

    Homemade Sichuan Chili oil Small bowl of Sichuan chili oil gilded with whole star anise, bay leaves and cinnamon sticks.

    Homemade Sichuan Chili Oil

    Chaat Masala Spice Mix all toasty and ground and ready for cooking in a pretty blue bowl

    Chaat Masala Spice Mix

    How to Cook Onions (Birista) - Cooking onions in a saucepan to the dark golden brown and crispy stage.

    How to Cook Onions (Birista)

    Lemon Pickle Recipe (Nimbu ka Achar) A small serving dish of a mixed lemon and lime pickle with Indian spices

    Lemon Pickle Recipe (Nimbu ka Achar)

    Easy Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)Served on a bed of rice and garnished with cilantro.

    Easy Butter Chicken (Murgh Makhani)

    Indian Cucumber Salad (Kachumber) This colorful salad of cucumber and tomato is erved with a sprinkling of peanuts and chopped cilantro.

    Indian Cucumber Salad (Kachumber)

    Roasted Eggplant Curry (Baingan Bharta) Beautiful redish orange eggplant curry in a square gold serving bowl garnished with a dusting fresh green cilantro

    Roasted Eggplant Curry (Baingan Bharta)

    Green Chutney - 3 Easy Recipes All bright green and stored in a pretty lidded jar.

    Green Chutney ~ 3 Easy Recipes

    Chicken Tikka Masala all served up with rice and naan.

    Chicken Tikka Masala

    Cooling Tomato Raita - An Indian yogurt salad flavored with tomato and spices and garnished with fried curry leavesA perfect side for anything you are eating.

    Cooling Tomato Raita

    Instant Pot Butter Chicken Served with plenty of sauce and a side of raita and rice.

    Instant Pot Butter Chicken

    Easy, Enticing Chicken Biryani served up in a large grey ceramic serving dish graced with crispy brown onions, star anise and red saffron.

    Easy, Enticing Chicken Biryani

    How to Make Homemade Yogurt (Stove) Homemade yogurt served with honey and nuts.

    How to Make Homemade Yogurt (Stove)

    Homemade Naan (No-Yeast) Four naan served with a side of ghee.

    Homemade Naan (No-Yeast)

    Cauliflower Potato Curry (Aloo Gobi) -- vegetable curry in a large serving bowl with a flutter of cilantro

    Cauliflower Potato Curry (Aloo Gobi)

    Easy Peasy Weeknight Curry Served with rice and showered with bright green cilantro and a wedge of lemon..

    Easy Peasy Weeknight Curry

    Black Lentil Dal (Dal Makhani) Served in a silver bowl with naan, limes and ghee.

    Black Lentil Dal (Dal Makhani)

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