Erusha Newman is certain of three things: she is Indian, she is Jewish, and she eats food only Indian Jews eat. Beyond that, the specifics get hazy.
Newman is one of only a few dozen known Bene Israel residents in...
Esther David, a Sahitya Akademi Award-winning artist, has released a new book that depicts Jewish life in India. She describes the culinary customs of this little society, whose 5,000 members live in isolated enclaves around the country. In India,...
Flower Silliman would treat herself to Calcutta's finest street dishes on the eighth day, when it was all over. Friends, relatives, and others from the city's renowned Baghdadi Jewish community – which now numbers less than 20 – kept...
Siona Benjamin tells me as she stands in her sunlit kitchen in Montclair, N.J., with the ingredients for coconut chicken curry — cans of coconut milk, fresh ginger, and around, silver tray lined with small bowls of ground spices...
This book's theme is inextricably linked to the author's identity. She is a member of Ahmedabad, Gujarat's Bene Israel Jewish community.
Food is more than just a source of sustenance; it also contains the key to understanding migration, survival, and...
Chicken Chitarnee, a Jewish curry from India, is an onion and tomato-based curry with a few Indian spices and a lot of lemon juice and vinegar.
My family's favorite dish is Chicken Chitarnee, an Indian Jewish curry. It's a curry...
India is a culturally and gastronomically diverse Asian Earth Mother. Three peculiar Jewish communities, located in separate parts of the country, have been sheltered among its millions for decades. The Baghdadi Jews of Calcutta, the Bene Israel of Bombay...
Ingredients:
For the rice
2 cups of basmati rice
Few strands of saffron
2 tablespoons of canola oil (if cooking on a stove top)
1?4 teaspoon of salt
4 cups of water
For the lamb
2 pounds deboned leg of lamb, cut into medium-sized cubes
Water to cover
1?4...
Preparation time: 1 hour 20 minutes. Serves 4
Ingredients:
8 chicken thighs on or off the bone, skin removed
500g tinned tomatoes
3cm piece root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
4 cloves garlic, peeled
Two large onions
2 tsp garam masala
1 tsp hot chilli powder (more...
Like all stews, this curry is excellent prepared a day or two in advance. Add the cilantro just before serving.
Ingredients:
3 tablespoons canola oil
3 large onions, chopped
6 cloves garlic
1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and coarsely chopped
5 fresh beefsteak tomatoes, coarsely...