Udaipur 2: Learning how make the perfect curry

During our second day in Udaipur we took a five hour cooking lesson. Starting with vegetable and sweet pakoda, we went through a full course meal: tomato and eggplant curry, rice biryani, raita, chapati, halva, and the perfect cup of chai. Prepare to taste our version of it in Vienna. However there are a few key ingredients that we might have to scour the city for, including gur (pure cane sugar) and black cardamom.

all the necessary spices

‘hot chaiiiiiiii!’

always with a little more ginger

grego writes (in a vain attempt to keep up with our lightning fast teacher) and vivi snaps away

beginning the base of all curries

hot oil and onions, garlic, ginger

add the spices (its a secret)

add the veggies, a sweet little eggplant

black cardamom

vivi wants to join in, the teacher always skeptical of our clumsy hands

a little ghee never hurt anybody

halva!

rolling chapati

it’s not easy

the chapati puffs up over the flame and is then spread with ghee

meal served

graduation day

grego has never been this tall in his life