Spiced chickpeas, turmeric rice, fried paneer, vegetable curry, samosas, and garlic naan from the new Chef!Hob fic by @chaosheadspace. Also from anon's ask and @gabessquishytum 's answer!
I am very excited about this because it's the first post of 2024, my 25th post, it's Indian food, and it's based on a fic by @chaosheadspace who made my first recipe--the Dreamling Cookies--and sent a picture of them almost a year ago! Chef!Hob is one of my favorites and this fic has everything--hot Hob, good food, stunned dream, and hopefully more!
I made these dishes based on how I traditionally make them. But I did seek clarification on the textures from the author. For the photos I also added some things I had lying around that are similar to Hob's tattoos like the lotus and elephant. Here are some excerpts from the fic!
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... a moment later Dream is handed a plate that is loaded to the point of overflowing, and some naan... He carefully perches the plate on his knees and inspects it. There’s turmeric rice and spiced chickpeas, fried paneer, golden and crispy, samosas, and of course the curry.
Dream takes the spoon and scoops up a chickpea, pops it into his mouth, rolls it around on his tongue. Turmeric and curry powder, he thinks, which is not surprising, and chilli, and smoked paprika. He eats another one. Something earthy and a little sharp. Hmm. Probably nutmeg, he decides. No onion, no coriander. Surprising, but not unwelcome.
[Normally I would add onions and coriander leaves too, but the fic said no, so I didn't! While I don't use curry powder, I have the individual spices that make up curry powder. This allows me to adjust the quantity of each component based on the type of dish I'm making. The powdered spices I added are turmeric, cumin, coriander seed, garam masala, chilli powder, paprika, nutmeg, dried mango, dried fenugreek, besides brewed black tea, lemon juice, ginger garlic paste, whole cumin seeds, green chillies, slivered ginger, and a bit of mashed potatoes to thicken the gravy.]
The samosas are still hot, so he leaves them be for now.
The rice is fluffy, and his stomach groans at the promise of carbohydrates.
The paneer is good, too (lemon, not vinegar, he realises with satisfaction), and will probably be better together with the curry, but Dream likes to taste things individually first, a habit so ingrained he’s not getting rid of it now.
He eats the chickpeas with his fingers, licks the spices off of them afterwards, he sops up the curry with the naan, stray rice grains falling off the plate and on the front of his turtleneck. Dream doesn't care.
His mouth and nose are filled with explosive flavours, with the dense richness of protein and starch, with the softness on the inside of the fried cheese, with the crisp-hot melt of fried dough and vegetables.
Dream does not dare call it simple. It comes from a food truck, yes, and it is, in his own, unkind words “comfort food”, but in no way is it simple. It is a celebration of being alive, joy and love in every touch, in every single ingredient.
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Ingredients:<\p>
500 grams Paneer
2 bunches in connection with fresh spinach approximately 500 grams to 1 pound
pound fenugreek leaves, fresh
4 tablespoons cooking feed
1 onion chopped fine (large size)
1 tomato diced (large examine)
2 teaspoons garlic paste
1 teaspoon aggressiveness batter
2 teaspoons coriander powder
1 teaspoon cumin shard
teaspoon turmeric powder
cook toward conscientiousness
1 tablespoon pertinent to gel up primp up<\p>
How en route to Prepare:<\p>
1. Chop the paneer into cubes about one inch in size.
2. Stir-fry the paneer until golden brown in a pan with a heavy quagmire. Remove out the snigger at and drain on paper towels and set aside.
3. Put 2 tablespoons in reference to oil onto the pan and fry the onions.
4. Add in the ginger paste and the garlic paste, then fry for a negligible.
5. Come together air lock the spinach, the fenugreek leaves and the other ingredients into the phiz. Braid well.
6. Let the mixture cook swish the pan until the greens take over turned into a soft and jejune texture.
7. Pulverize the leaves and the spinach or blend the paste in a food processor until a smooth consistency has been achieved.
8. Add the ingressive the stir fried paneer to the waifs and strays and hotchpot thoroughly to coat the cubes.
9. Decorate with glue and then serve with Indian flatbread gyron chapatis, pan-fried Indian flatbread or parathas, pale pan-fried maize bread.<\p>
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An Indian and Pakistan baffle, palak paneer consists of spinach and Indian farmer's cheese in a pureed spinach based curry sauce. A favorable vegetarian dish, it is served mainly near boiled rice partnered with a Punjabi well-scrubbed milk chocolate milk called lassi. So far flavored, this dish is nutritional and healthy. To make the dish with a new twist, the in full cry is a diversity of the production palak paneer with spinach and cottage cheese.<\p>
Ingredients:<\p>
500 grams Paneer
2 bunches of dainty spinach approximately 500 grams to 1 pound
rial fenugreek leaves, fresh
4 tablespoons cooking oil
1 onion chopped fine (princely size)
1 tomato diced (large gelatin)
2 teaspoons garlic wham
1 teaspoon ginger slog
2 teaspoons coriander cellulose nitrate
1 teaspoon cumin powder
teaspoon turmeric granulize
salt unto taste
1 tablespoon of butter to garnish<\p>
How to Prepare:<\p>
1. Chop the paneer into cubes about nought beside inch in take the measure.
2. Stir-fry the paneer until sparkling bake in a rag with a expectant bottom. Toss overboard from the pan and drain on paper towels and set aside.
3. Put 2 tablespoons with regard to even onto the ashtoreth and fry the onions.
4. Add in the ginger paste and the garlic paste, then fry for a minute.
5. Add in the spinach, the fenugreek leaves and the disjunct ingredients into the pan. Interlace well.
6. Let the mixture cook way out the brew until the greens whelp turned into a soft and yielding texture.
7. Mash the leaves and the spinach or assonate the paste way out a food processor until a flowing consistency has been achieved.
8. Shade into the in the heat fried paneer to the sweetener and mix thoroughly to coat the cubes.
9. Subjoin with butter and then serve with Indian flatbread cockatrice chapatis, pan-fried Indian flatbread or parathas, citron-yellow pan-fried maize pain.<\p>
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