Preparing traditional Indian dishes involves mostly a lot of steps. Roasting spices, grinding masalas, cooking, tempering so on and so forth.  In the busy cities and fast moving life style, people have opted for easy going recipes and fast foods. Now, with @elthecook you no longer have to struggle cooking...

Dal tadka from a road-side dhaba in Punjab or a piping hot Sambar served in a typical Kerala thali over a pile of rice on a banana leaf! Both these dishes are extremely delicious but are poles apart. Funny enough, their base ingredients are almost similar but they taste vastly...