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A lot of the readers and some friends have been asking me for the recipe of making Laccha Paratha at home. Now bread of any kind is a common accompaniment on the Indian dining table whether it is lunch or dinner.Plus I feel that Laccha Paratha is like Risotto..Everyone thinks they are super hard to make but its actually a piece of cake. So here it is my friends...the tasty recipe for homemade laccha parathas. Bon Apetit! Serves : 4 Method: 1. In a large bowl, mix together Maida/ Flour, 1 tsp. oil/ghee and salt to taste. 2. Add 1 1/2 cups of water and knead to make a soft dough. Do not knead the dough too much. It should be soft and supple. Keep aside for 20-30 mins. 3.After resting the dough, divide it into equal sized balls. 4.Dust the counter with flour, roll the ball and press it slightly, roughly into 6" diameter. 5.Apply some melted ghee/clarified butter/oil on the disk and sprinkle some flour/maida. 6.Now start pleating the disc fr...

With the last week gone in a jiffy, Sunday morning found me tired, sleepy and reluctant to get out of bed. I woke up around 1 p.m. in the afternoon and the first thought in my mind was ," what should I give for lunch tomorrow to hub?" (Uugghhhh)... Anyways calming myself down with some chamomile tea (it was too early for vodka), I began rethinking easy recipes...  Now to be honest vegetarian lunch boxes are a no-no for me as my hubby hates them.The day he eats veg, he looks at me as if I'm punishing him for something he did, which he doesn't remember but I do! So you can guess my dilemma when I have to cook innovative non-vegetarian fare because there's only so much butter chicken a man can eat. So there I was, staring clueless at the wall, when it hit me..bamn! Why not take some help from our wonderful south and make a beautifully light but fragrant chicken curry. So here it is guys... chicken curry cooked in a mildly spicy chicken curry with curry leaves ...

So it was basically one of those mundane mornings where having nothing to do on a Sunday (yeah I know what you guys are thinking!! But when you shift countries as drastically as you change Tata Sky channels, not having friends seems normal) and my hubby coming to no rescue of mine because he was transfixed on Channel News Asia, my empty mind diverted itself to the food devil inside my head. I started thinking about what to cook for lunch for office tomorrow as my very coy, virgin stomach rejects all food made outside except fine dining (I know…I know…Food Bourgeois) and the quantity of food is very meager considering the amount of money we pay to have it. Pressurizing my cerebellum to come up with recipes I suddenly remembered Padma Laxmi….. Wait! Before jumping into conclusions let me make it clear that, (i)                     No I’m not bordering on being Bi-sexual (ii)  ...