India Rising

Wine: Chateau St Jean de la Gineste 2006 Corbieres Rose de la St Jean


We apparently are in our “Lets Make Indian Food” phase. We started with a non-Indian Salad made with Blenheim Apricots, Saba, Prosciutto, Pistachios. It is a very easy salad to make.

For the main course we grilled a Tandoori Chicken. The breasts needed to be marinated in the Tandoori sauce for 24 a minimum of 24 hours. The sauce is easy to make. We purchased Nomu Indian Rub from The Cheese Store of Silverlake. Just add yogurt and apply to the chicken. The sauce is then scraped off and the chicken is grilled.

With the chicken we served Indian Rice with Cashews, Raisins. From The Cheese Store we picked up a great rice from South Africa. They have several different flavors and we used the Sun-Dried Tomato Breyani Rice. The brand is called Spice and all things nice.

After dinner we then watched a Bollywood Movie. The movie is a semi-historical about the Indian Uprising against the British Raj in the 1800’s. The revolt led to the end of the East Indian Company running India, the British Government took over direct control of India. It also led to the end of the Mughal control of Delhi and Northern India. The movie is engrossing. It is called: Mangal Pandey: The Rising. Mangal Pandey was a real Indian who has become a legend in the Indian independence movement.