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GFers know just how difficult it is to find good GF cakes and pastries. For my last birthday, my aunt found *the most delicious* Yuzu butter cake at Bisou in Bangsar Village. The texture and consistency was perfect – indistinguishable from any other flour-based cake! The taste: heavenly. I may (just may) have had like quarter the cake by myself!
Even though I’ve been in Hyderabad about 2.5 months now, I still don’t know the good gluten-free places to eat! I’ve found a couple, which I will post in the days to come. However, for now, I was lucky enough to be invited to a home-cooked meal, where I learned a lot about what goes into the local food!
Home-cooked Indian spread – all gluten-free! Lots of curries and rice dishes.
Our host laid out a sumptuous, traditionally-prepared meal. A lot of the food is rice-based (e.g. rice with jeera, rice with corn, pulao) and tomato-and-chili-paste-based (e.g. prawn curry, chicken curry, stuffed potato curry).
Palak paneer – almost always reliably gluten-free! And almost always reliably delicious!
To me, the palak paneer has been an old steady favourite. I have not encountered a time when it was made with gluten. The only danger, of course, is cross-contamination, but usually the risk is minimal.
Stuffed potato with curd and cheese, in a tomato gravy.
This stuffed potato curry was amazing! It’s essentially halved potatoes that have been hollowed out and stuffed with curd and paneer (and some spinach and seasoning).