Learning Indian Cooking with Design Patterns

Working on OOAD for sometime now, I have tried to emulate almost all of my daily work in OOAD; believe me, its made my life easy and more happy.

Cooking is what I got used to once I started working out of Bangalore. In Hyd, I was living alone in a room and I was just cooking rice and having it with curds or chutni pudi. Believe me, I have done it for 6 months everyday and I don't think I got bugged with it. Now, after getting to NYC, started to live in a house on shared basis, cooking other food becomes inevitable. I have learnt cooking in just 3 weeks.

This is a blog, trying to emulate the OOAD into Indian Cooking. Hopefully I will be able to put down all my design thoughts on this blog seamlessly. I would try to put down the design patterns for (1) Sabji and (2) Sambar in this blog.

Sabji:
North Indian Food that is usually served with chapathi/roti(indian wheat bread) and its not a good idea having it with rice also. Usually major chunk of the ingredients are vegatables.

Design Pattern:
Fry Oil in Pan
Put some Mustard, curry leaves
Add Vegetables
Add the Masala Powders + salt
Cook for 5 mins


Example:
Fry Oil in Pan
Put some Mustard, curry leaves
Add some Onion, deep fry till onion is brown
Add Gobi, Alu, Tomato Piecescludin
Add the Dhaniya Powder + Mirchi Puwder + Garam Masala + salt
Cook for 5 mins

3rd and the 4th step in the example depends on your choice. You can choose to add garlic also in the 3rd step. Quick and tastes good. Max of 15 mins including cutting vegetables and cooking.

Sambar
A South Indian Food. Again, can be served with Chapathi / Rice. But also a good side dish for Dosa/Idli/Vada. Ingredients are usually vegetables with some Dal.

Design Pattern:
Take some Dal in a pressure cooker and clean it in a stream of water
Add Vegetables
Add Masala Powders + Salt
Boil it till 2 / 3 whistles
Put Oggarne(in kannada)/Talimpu(in telugu)/Tadka(in hindi)
Cook for 2 mins


Example:
Take some Dal in a pressure cooker and clean it in a stream of water
Add Onion, Potato, Tomato
Add Mirchi Powder + Salt
Boil it till 2 / 3 whistles
Put Oggarne(in kannada)/Talimpu(in telugu)/Tadka(In hindi)
Cook for 2 mins

2nd step is customisable with any kind od combo vegetables you like with or without Onion. Garlic again is optional in the last but one step in Oggarne.

Hmmm.. I have told about the ingredients that get in. How about the measure of it? I Important Question. I have a very vague measure. Below is my measures for above:

Dal: For 2 persons, 2 measures of Dal as much an normal adult can take in his one palm. (ondu hidi as in Kannada)
Vegetables: For 2 persons, 2 measures of Vegetables as much as an normal adult can take with both his hands.Onion: For 2 persons, 2 measures of Dal as much an adult can take in his one palm. (ondu hidi as in Kannada)
Masala Powders: For 2 persons, 1 tea spoon each powder.
Salt: For 2 persons, 1 tea spoon.

This is all based on my experience and the valuable guidance of my Mom and Kusuma. Thanks to them for everything and inspiring me to blog it too. I guess I will blog atleast another 3 4 cooking design patterns before I return to India (tentative return date is in 1st week of December).

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