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This is a great sambhar recipe I found in an Indian news website. It has buttermilk which is a good source of probiotics and is great for digestive system.  So the fact that this recipe has a good portion of probiotics and is healthy, I've decided to include it in my 'food exploration mission'. If you didn't read my previous blog, last weekend I resolved to try a new recipe every week. In this process, every week I will be picking recipes from different parts of India and trying them out. The idea is to pick regional recipes that are unique, so that I could play around with different ingredients and my taste buds, and of course a recipe gets extra points if it’s healthy too! This Sambhar recipe fits perfectly in my exploration of finding authentic Indian recipes.    Here's sharing buttermilk sambhar recipe , that looked great to me and Im pretty sure I will be trying it very soon!:)    Buttermilk Sambhar (source: cooks.ndtv.com)

A friend of mine is a great cook. I think she has a magical touch, why I say that is because whatever she makes, always turns out very good. I think the fact she is a wonderful person and has an awesome happy vibe has something to do with the magic too. I'm a fan of both her and her cooking and have always wished I could cook (atleast) somewhat like her. So this last weekend, I decided to fulfill my wish and showed up at her place and asked her to supervise me. We decided to cook a recipe from a recipe book that my brother gifted me on Christmas some three years ago. I don't use that book a lot, I would often open it to get ideas for what to cook, but never followed the recipes closely. However, this time, I decided to follow every instruction in that book. After going through different recipes in that book and making sure we had all the ingredients, we decided to make 'Eggplant in mustard seed and yogurt gravy'. This is a bengali recipe and I got excited mostly becau...