dhansak

nandita, your dhansak is a must try ...a combo of dhals is definitely my kind of a dish! btw, just saw your profile pic,you look beautiful.

Parsi Dhansak - for FMR Pumpkin 2006

Purists will tell you dhansak does not have pineapple, but many Indian restaurants do prepare it this way, too.

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Purists will tell you dhansak does not have pineapple, but many Indian restaurants do prepare it this way, too.

Father's Day contest brims with memories, recipes 2011

The recipe for dhansak sounds tedious, but it is a snap to put together once you have the ingredients at hand.

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But this webpage has a true treasure: scroll down to the last two lines of this page, and someone has provided a recipe (there is a link to a word document) for vegetarian dhansak.

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Their father said if they ever tasted this insipid foreign stuff instead of merely reading about it in those blighted Blyton books, they would realize how amazing was their mother's curry-rice and khichri-saas and pumpkin buryani and dhansak.

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A google search yielded this recipe for a pretty non-authentic dhansak.

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The "brown rice" traditionally served in the Parsee meal is white rice which is browned by the addition of caramelized sugar, but I made "real" brown rice, because it is so much healthier, and because it goes perfect with the dhansak.

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The Parsee-inspired meal that I served included brown rice pilaf, a vegetable-dal stew called dhansak and a simple salad called kachumbar.

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Speaking of which, I tried looking for an authentic dhansak recipe on the internet.

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