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    About Spice Up The Curry

    Welcome To Spice Up The Curry - a place where you can find Vegetarian Indian recipes and Eggless baking recipes. Apart from these you can find some international cuisines recipes and some fusion recipes with Indian touch. Spice Up The Curry was born on January 5th 2012. The website is still and always be a work in progress.

    It is not just the recipe website, it is the community where the food lovers/cooking beginners discuss about their successes, failures, learning process in the kitchen.

    The Recipes:

    • With step by step photos
    • Detailed instructions include exact ingredients measurements, cooking temperature, flame intensity, cooking time, tips, notes and substitutions (if possible).
    • Also mentioned the taste and flavor of the dish, shelf life or freezing instruction (whenever applicable) and serving suggestions to make it a meal.
    • All of them are tried, tested and tasted in my kitchen and by my family.
    • Includes a printable format for you.

    Hello from Kanan Patel (That’s me) 🙂

    Namaste, I am Kanan and the creator of Spice Up The Curry. I do cooking, creating recipe write up, taking photos, editing, posting online. As well as technical aspects, maintenance, designing of blog, server issues all are done by me.

    Getting Around:

    If you’re new here, let me give you the tour of the site -

    • You will find all the categories for recipes by clicking 'Recipe Index' at the top navigation bar
    • You can find the recipes based on ingredients you have by going through the 'Ingredient Index' at the top navigation bar
    • To search specific recipe from the site, you will find the search bar in the top navigation bar.
    • basic cooking measurements conversion table, Indian spice box (Masala dabba) details and ingredient glossary topics are covered.
    • You can also check out the the list of Indian cooking equipment I recommend.

    Don’t find specific recipe that you are looking for? make a recipe request on spiceupthecurry[at]gmail[dot]com. I will try to post it asap.

    SpiceUpTheCurry has been featured in VeganFoodAndLiving.com, Times of India, Hindustan Times, Huffpost, Buzzfeed, iDiva, MSN.com, Medium.com, Yahoo.com, Chowhound, Foodgawker, Yummly, India.com, Brit+Co, among others.

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    About Me: Kanan Patel

    Kanan

    I am a former IT professional in a pharmaceutical company that “retired” in 2018 to focus on my family and to grow this site as a business. I am born and raised in India (Ahmedabad, Gujarat), now moved to the United States in 2008 as a student and living in New Jersey with my little daughter and husband.

    A little story on How I learned cooking

    I started cooking when I came to USA. I have never entered the kitchen when I was in India. During my masters, I learned little bit of cooking from my room-mates. But still I was doing just OK that time because roommates were always there, so I never got chance to cook alone. But when I got married, I need to manage the kitchen by myself. To keep mine and dear hubby’s stomach happy, I started to learn cooking from cookbooks. I have read lots and lots of cookbooks (nearby public library has very good collection of Indian cookbooks). No, reading doesn’t end here; I have read tons of culinary books which explain cooking & food science. As I understand the food and how it works with other ingredients, I started enjoying it. And Now I can say that I know cooking and I can cook good food. But still learning is in process.

    About the Food I cook and We eat:

    As being vegetarian, I only cook vegetarian food and so this blog also has veg recipes posted.

    You will always find fresh ingredients in my cooking. I do not use processed and ready made canned stuff in my cooking.

    I and hubby eat all the food which I cook and post here on the blog. If I need to I freeze some, eat later. Sometimes he took it to his office for his co-workers. But we never waste or throw anything.

    Let’s get Connected:

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    You can email me on spiceupthecurry[at]gmail[dot]com for any suggestion, question or to just say Hello. 

    Copyright Policy: all the content and photos on my website is copyright protected with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted. no hot-linking of images, please! It takes a lot of time and effort to take images and blog about the food I cook. Kindly respect the hard work that goes into making of this blog.

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    Reader Interactions

    Comments

    1. Prasanna

      April 28, 2020 at 11:14 am

      Hi I am looking for some protein rich dishes in vegetarian

      Reply
      • Kanan Patel

        April 28, 2020 at 1:51 pm

        As a source of protein, we eat lentils and beans. You can check out all the dal & beans recipes

        Reply
    2. Lili

      April 26, 2020 at 2:54 pm

      Hi Kanan,
      I am form Colombia, but I love your recipes. I constantly visit your page. Although I have problems in translations, I try to find the closest thing and do the best. Thank you. Regards. Lili

      Reply
    3. Simmi

      April 25, 2020 at 10:25 pm

      Very impressive site and an inspirational story.
      Good luck with what you are doing.
      I wish you all the success in your endeavours.

      Reply
      • Kanan Patel

        April 26, 2020 at 2:36 pm

        Thank you Simmi

        Reply
    4. Swati Best

      April 17, 2020 at 1:04 pm

      Impressive range of vegetarian dishes.

      So good to have step by step instructions on Guju classics

      I like the layout - both descriptive and itemised.

      Reply
      • Kanan Patel

        April 17, 2020 at 2:22 pm

        Very glad to know that recipes are helpful

        Reply
    5. Varsha

      April 10, 2020 at 2:09 pm

      Dear Kanan,
      Thank you for all your fantastic recipes. I have totally enjoyed the ones I tried. However, I am longing to know how you make Gujrati Handvo.

      Reply
      • Kanan Patel

        April 10, 2020 at 3:23 pm

        I will sure post handvo recipe in near future

        Reply
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