Category:Special Equipment for Indian Cooking

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Most Indian dishes don’t require you to purchase any special tools. However, having a coffee grinder helps with roasting and grinding spices and maximizes their volatile oils, which, in turn, provides your food with more flavor. If you do use an electric grinder, make sure you always clean it out before you change spices. Any mix between spices will change the way your food tastes. With some spices, a little goes a long way, so even a small amount of 'contamination' can change things.

However, here are a few kitchen utensils you might want to use:

• Tava: Traditionally an iron griddle is used for making Indian breads and shallow frying.
• Kadhai: A traditional Indian iron wok.
• Masala Dabba ( Spice Box): Almost every Indian household will have a spice box.
• Chaklas are round flat platforms made of marble or wood on which the dough for chapattis are rolled with the help of the belan, or the rolling pin
• Thaali: Individual serving plate
• Sevai nazhi: An old-fashioned, floor-mounted, hand-cranked press for making sevai, or rice noodles, South-Indian style

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