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"Indian cuisine is finally having its foodie moment. You may think Indian food is off-limits for the home cook, but there are now a myriad of quality spice pastes and curry sauces at the supermarket that let you get the taste without the work. Coconut milk Coconut milk is produced by extracting the juice from the coconut flesh. The liquid inside the coconut is actually coconut water. The first pressing of the coconut flesh produces thick coconut cream and the second pressing produces the lighter milk. Canned coconut milk usually is thicker underneath and milkier on top. Unless the recipe calls for coconut cream, mix the two together before using. Coconut milk is now available &amp;quot;light&amp;quot; without the cream component. Indian curry pastes These come in a number of different heats. They are made by cooking spices with oil and work well in Indian cooking as they do not have that &amp;quot;raw&amp;quot; taste that curry powder gives. Garam Masala Garam masala is a fragrant, flavourful blend of spices. The mixture is actually more aromatic than hot and can be used like curry powder, but it is often added at the end of cooking to highlight flavours. You can buy garam masala, but making your own will give a much fresher taste to everything you use. Fresh Coriander Know as cilantro in Mexican cooking, coriander has a sweet, citrusy, flowery taste and is essential in most South Asian dishes.It wilts quickly in the refrigerator, but if you store it by placing its roots in a water-filled jar and covering it with a plastic bag, it will keep up to 2 weeks, refrigerated. The recipes: Cinnamon Gardens Chicken Curry and Mistress of Spices Chickpea Cucumber Salad. Lucy Waverman is the author of eight cookbooks, including the award-winning Home for Dinner, and is the recipient of Cuisine Canada&amp;#039;s 2005 gold medal award for cookbooks for A Matter of Taste, which she co-wrote with James Chatto. Her latest release, A Year in Lucy&amp;#039;s Kitchen, comes out in October. You can find Lucy at lucywaverman.com and follow her on Twitter at twitter.com/lucywaverman. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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