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Mint is not the herb I often use in the kitchen, and yet I buy it sometimes when I simply cannot resist its fresh, enticing aroma. The sad thing is I usually end up drying it and then drinking as herbal tea. A couple of days ago I decided I had to break this vicious circle and start cooking with mint. Remembering how quickly I empty the mint sauce bowl in Indian restaurants, I decided to give it a try. Since every Indian mint sauce recipe I found called for the ingredients I didn’t have, I improvised my own recipe. Even though the result was different from what I had in Indian restaurants, it was really good. I especially liked its contrasting palate sensations: refreshing and cooling, it gives a hot kick at the same time. The aroma is still enticing.<\/p>\n
Given my experiments with this sauce, I can recommend it as a dip for deep-fried dishes, with rice, with cold turkey cuts<\/a>, and I think I couldn’t find a better company for the leftover, warmed\u00a0Lamb Masala<\/a>.<\/p>\n Special equipment: food processor<\/em><\/p>\n Preparation: 5 minutes<\/em><\/p>\n Ingredients:<\/em><\/p>\n 1 big bunch of mint (100g)<\/em><\/p>\n 200 ml yogurt<\/em><\/p>\n 1 teaspoon of very hot powdered chili or green\/red fresh chilies (amounts depend on their hotness and your personal taste)<\/em><\/p>\n salt<\/em><\/p>\n Cut off the hardest parts of mint stalks, leaving only the thin branches and leaves.<\/p>\n Mix the mint in a food processor, add the yogurt, mix again. Transfer to a bowl, add a bit of salt to taste (I added 2 teaspoons) and the chili.<\/p>\n Serve chilled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mint is not the herb I often use in the kitchen, and yet I buy it sometimes when I simply cannot resist its fresh,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,125,13,85,18],"tags":[12,45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4731"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4750,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4731\/revisions\/4750"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.withaglass.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}