Welcome to the Beyond Butter Chicken podcast! This is a podcast solely dedicated to highlighting regional Indian cuisines. When people think of Indian food the ...
While there are 5 distinct states in Southern India with their own unique identity, the food all tends to get clubbed together. This episode is a wonderful introduction to South Indian cuisine where Food specialist Rakesh Raghunathan talks us through some of the typical stereotypes and helps us understand the food from the region. We talk about the dessert culture in South India, Street food fare and of course the battle of the biryanis!
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Busting Myths of Bengali Cuisine
Bengali food is usually very stereotyped. All Bengali food is swimming in mustard, All Bengali's are crazy after sweets and Kolkata Chinese and Tangra food is revered. Our guest on this episode chats with Roxanne to elaborate and help really define what Bengali food is about while merrily breaking every myth people have. Kalyan Karmakar is a food writer, author, podcaster and general raconteur who brightens up this episode with wonderful anecdotes from his trips to Kolkata and memories from his childhood. You don’t want to miss this episode !
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Mouth-Watering secrets from the Royal Kitchens of Malwa
On this episode of Beyond Butter Chicken, Roxanne delves into the cuisine of some of the Indian Royal Families. Anuradha Joshi Medhora introduces her to the Royal Kitchens of Malwa and how recipes have traveled from across the country and were tweaked to suit royal palettes. She talks to us about the influences from not one but three Indian states that made up Malwa, the White Maharanis Christmas menu and some interesting innovations to get young royal princes to eat their proteins. If you were ever at all curious about what Indian Royalty ate, this episode is perfect for you.
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Conversations on The Art Of Ayurvedic Eating
On this episode of Beyond Butter Chicken, Roxanne moves away from a regional Indian cuisine to focus on an ancient Indian practice and way of life. Amrita Rana has dedicated the last couple of years to study and teach people more about Ayurveda and specifically the Ayurvedic approach to eating. They talk about the basic principles of Ayurveda, how to balance your doshas, the teachings and most importantly dispel common myths about this ancient Indian practice.
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Are All Indian Spices actually Spicy?
In this episode of Beyond Butter Chicken, Roxanne chats with Rushina Munshaw Ghildiyal who breaks down the humble Indian spice box and all the myths behind how spicy each spice actually is. She talks about her favourite spices including Devil’s tongue and how cuttle fish makes an appearance in a spice mix. She’s taking us through various spice blends across the country including the famous Garam Masala and a very interesting Thanda masala or winter spices. All this and a lot more on this episode.
Welcome to the Beyond Butter Chicken podcast! This is a podcast solely dedicated to highlighting regional Indian cuisines. When people think of Indian food the most common dish that comes to mind is usually Butter Chicken and given that the cuisine is actually so diverse, we wanted to go well – Beyond Butter Chicken.
Each episode is a conversation about a region in India and the food it represents. Each guest is an authority in their own right about the cuisine and talks about what defines the food of the region, the flavour profile, popular dishes and possibly where to eat them and of course plenty of stories and anecdotes.
The podcast is hosted by Roxanne Bamboat, popularly known as The Tiny Taster. Roxanne is a food and travel writer and content curator who’s been writing about food for the last decade.
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