In india, home away from home, a catholic stronghold surrounded by muslim india. Like the chinese and the arabs before them, they came for indias fantastic spices pepper, cardamom, turmeric, ginger, and cinnamon. Indias keynote dish, the biryani, makes use of many of the spices which brought the portuguese to india. But many more spices are from the far ends of the spice trails. Can you guess which are native to india . Padma is on the case. Master chef Mehboob Alam Khan is inviting me to his home to cook his specialty the biryani. Ginger and garlic paste. Garlic and ginger. Now this is a common ingredient for all most of the indian cooking. Also give me some turmeric. Where did you learn to make this biryani . Oh, at my house, from my mother. Give me the red chilies. Some cinnamon stick. The lychee cardamom. And you leave the shell on . Now give me some onions. These have been fried, correct . This is fried crisp, fried onions, you see . And now you see i crush them with my hand. Now
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