Anyone who has looked for a recipe for Indian food off the net will notice one thing. There are a million different Indian cooking spices in every dish. And every recipe calls for a different combination of the same spices. Now, in a perfect world, we would be able to pop into the grocery store and buy 2 cardamoms and 10 pepper corns and 3 cloves. Do that – let me know how it works out for you. You would...

Probably the only masala you’ll need that actually needs some amount of work. It works beautifully with olive oil. Adds a little flavour and gets the oil smelling good as well. You will end up using it in most Indian chicken, fish and vegetable recipes. Ingredients Jeera (Cumin seeds) Rai (Yellow mustard seeds) Sauf (Aniseed) Methi seeds (Fenugreek seeds) Kalonji (Nigella. Some call it onion seeds, which is incorrect) Method Mix the seeds in the ratio 1:1:1:½:1 The ½ proportion is because methi seeds tend to make...