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Cumin seeds Recipes

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Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup with lentils, onion and garlic — India recipe

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Soups

Dal — Spiced Indian Lentil Soup

A warming Indian red lentil soup tempered with cumin, turmeric, coriander, and ginger — finished with a sizzling spiced ghee pour. One of the most comforting and nourishing dishes in Indian home cooking. Serve with warm chapati or basmati rice.

30 min190 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Meat Pulao with lamb, rice and onion — India recipe

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Meat Dishes

Meat Pulao

Meat pulao (also spelled pilau, pulav, or pilaf) is an Indian one-pot rice dish: basmati rice cooked in the stock of lamb or beef with onion, ginger, garlic, and whole spices. The meat is braised first and the rice finishes in the stock it left behind, the way yakhni pulao is made. Unlike biryani there are no layers and no second pot, so it takes about 100 minutes, and the rice itself needs only 15 of them. Serve it with plain yogurt and a fresh salad.

100 min610 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Chana Masala with chickpeas, tomato and onion — India recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chana Masala

A Punjabi street food staple that became an all-India classic — chickpeas simmered in a thick spiced tomato-onion sauce with cumin, coriander, garam masala, and a squeeze of lime. Vegetarian, cheap, deeply satisfying. Eaten for breakfast with puri, for lunch with rice, and as a street snack.

35 min290 kcal2 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy💪High protein

Samosa with plain flour, ghee and potatoes — India recipe

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Appetizers and Sandwiches

Samosa

Flaky, crispy pastry cones filled with spiced potato and peas, deep-fried until dark golden. The dough uses a technique called moyan dena — fat is rubbed into the flour until the mixture resembles wet sand before any water goes in. That step is what makes the crust flaky rather than bready. The filling is mashed potato with green peas, cumin, green chilli, coriander, and amchur powder for the characteristic sour edge. The frying is two-stage: low heat first to set the dough from the inside, then medium heat for color. Serve hot with mint chutney and tamarind chutney.

75 min310 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌶️Spicy

Labneh with Sizzled Tomatoes with yogurt, tomato and garlic — Lebanon recipe

🇱🇧LebanonMedium

Sauces and Dips

Labneh with Sizzled Tomatoes

Labneh is strained yogurt — drained overnight until it's thick, tangy, and spreadable. The tomatoes are the opposite: cooked fast in very hot oil with garlic and cumin until they blister and burst, then poured while still sizzling over the cold labneh. The contrast is the point. Cold and creamy against hot and jammy. You can buy labneh at most Middle Eastern grocery stores and save the overnight step, but making it yourself takes nothing except time.

30 min180 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free⚡Quick

Uzbek Kavardak (Lamb and Potato Stew with Cumin) with lamb shoulder, potatoes and cumin seeds — Uzbekistan recipe

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Meat Dishes

Uzbek Kavardak (Lamb and Potato Stew with Cumin)

Uzbek kavardak is a hearty stew of lamb, potatoes, and seasonal vegetables, slow-cooked in a kazan with cumin, coriander, and fresh tomatoes. The name comes from the Uzbek qovurdoq, meaning fried or braised meat, from qovurmoq, "to fry" — the popular idea that it means "mess" or "chaos" is a mix-up with an unrelated Russian word that sounds the same. Key technique: lamb is seared in smoking-hot oil until a deep crust forms, vegetables are layered in stages, and everything braises under a tight lid until the potatoes have soaked up the meat juices. Serves six, served in deep bowls with fresh cilantro and crushed garlic on top, alongside flatbread. Forgiving on ingredients, strict on technique.

120 min500 kcal6 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Palak Paneer with spinach, paneer and green chilies — India recipe

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Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Palak Paneer

Palak paneer pairs soft cubes of fresh cheese with a smooth North Indian spinach gravy. The sauce should taste green and gently spiced, not bitter or overloaded with cream; hot roti or cumin rice is all it needs.

45 min465 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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