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Hyderabadi home cooking

Recipes from a Hyderabadi family kitchen

Biryanis, curries, achaars and festival sweets: the dishes we grew up with, filmed step by step so you can cook them at home. Plus a few fusion favourites from our travels.

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From Amma's notebook

The recipes behind the recipes

50 family recipes, typed up from Amma's handwritten notebook. Some are already on the channel; the rest are waiting their turn in front of the camera.

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About the gharana

A gharana is a household, and a way of doing things.

The recipes here are ours: Hyderabadi dishes handed down at home, written down carefully and cooked again and again until they taste right. Alongside the classics you'll find fusion experiments and dishes we picked up travelling.

No shortcuts on flavour, but no fuss either. Just real home cooking, explained step by step.

— Raj
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