Dishes
Cooking built around one ingredient worth eating, in the tradition it belongs to and in the ones it has travelled to.
Where a dish is not traditional anywhere, the page says so rather than inventing a heritage for it.
Drumstick leaf dal
IndianMoringa leaf cooked into toor dal — the most ordinary way the leaf is actually eaten, and the reason it is grown in the yard.
40 minutesServes four10 ingredients
Moringa and white bean soup
WesternA plain white bean soup with moringa leaf stirred through at the end — the leaf behaves much like spinach and needs about as long.
1 hour, plus soakingServes four8 ingredients
Sesame and jaggery laddoo
IndianRoasted sesame bound with melted jaggery and rolled while warm. Made at Sankranti, when sesame and jaggery are both in season.
30 minutesAbout 15 laddoos4 ingredients