Hi Friends, We have another grocery haul for you today.
We went to the Indian store and I needed a few spices.
So, I got the spices and also a few fresh produce
and some other stuffs.
So, let me show you what we got.
First let me start with the fresh produce.
We got a bottle gourd.
I think you can tell we really love this vegetable, both Kevin and I.
We bought it last week from the Asian grocery haul
and this week as well.
So, this one.
Also some bananas which we tend to buy at every store that we go.
We always have bananas at home.
This is okra which we also tend to buy every week.
We might have to put another recipe for okra on the channel,
as we do so many dishes with this.
So, it might be interesting to have another recipe video for you.
These are some chillies, green chillies.
So, that looks like a lot here.
But I am going to pickle them.
Mauritian-style pickled chillies which we really
love to eat.
It makes them last longer but also the taste.
This is cilantro or coriander leaves.
I always have cilantro at home.
It's like the base herb or the base ingredient for so many Mauritian dishes.
So, I always have it.
Then some tomatoes which I also get at other stores but I got
a few there.
Next over to the dry stuffs.
So, this is 2kg of chickpea flour or also known
as gram flour or besan.
This one I really recommend getting it from an Indian store or if you have an Asian store
close to you, as it's way cheaper to get this from there compared to regular stores.
And we have a couple of recipes on the channel using chickpea flour.
So, I'll link these up for you.
Next we got a box of black tea.
So, that's loose tea which has a nicer flavour than what you get in tea bags.
So, we really love tea, both Kevin and I.
It's our everyday kind of ritual.
So, we really like to spend time chatting to each other over a cup of tea.
And there is really no problem that we haven't been able to solve
with a nice cup of tea.
So, we are great tea fans over here.
And, this is soya chunks which we actually have a couple of recipes
using this on the channel.
It's very handy to keep in the panty because it's dried.
So, you get kind of a protein... uh...protein source which keeps
for a long time.
So, sometimes if you don't want to have beans so that's another option.
These are creamed coconut.
So, I like to keep this because it doesn't take that much space.
And it's also very convenient to just mix the paste.
It's a cream that comes in this kind of pack.
So, you just dilute that in some water.
I have a post... a review post of that on the blog actually.
I can link that up for you.
And it's very convenient.
When you dilute it, it becomes like coconut milk but sometimes I use
the cream itself to make other... for in other recipes.
So that's a nice thing to keep in the cupboard.
Coconut oil which I use in so many dishes.
like you've seen it on the channel.
Most of the time, that's the oil that we use in a lot of our dishes.
And in baking as well.
So, getting it from the Indian store or Asian store works out a lot cheaper.
So, that one.
One thing that I like to get from the Indian store sometimes
is this vermicelli which is somewhat like angel hair pasta.
But this one is roasted.
So, I use this to make desserts.
Some kind of preparation with coconut milk.
My mum used to make it when I was a kid and I really used to love it.
But my sister, she absolutely disliked it.
So, if she is watching this, she'll probably be
totally repulsed by this one.
And...
So, next we got some snacks.
So, these are like snacks made with chickpea flour.
So, we got 3 different flavour and they also come in different shapes.
So, it's basically... the ingredients are chickpea flour, vegetable oil, salt, baking
powder, baking soda, cornstarch and different spices.
So, this one doesn't have any spices.
It's just the plain one.
And this one is a spicy one and that one is with carom ... carom flavoured chickpea
flour snacks.
I also got the spices.
So, that was the main reason that we went to the store today, because I was running
low on spices.
This is ground cumin.
So, that's a big pack, 800g, which will last probably for about 3-4 months
or maybe even more.
I use this a lot in a lot of recipes.
So, I like to buy them in larger packs because they work out cheaper that way.
Coriander powder.
This one I wanted to get a bigger pack but the next pack was
way too big.
So, I just got this size for this time.
This is turmeric powder.
So, again I like to get the big packs because it lasts a long time.
Then some moong beans.
So, moong beans I like to make vegetable burgers with them or sometimes cook them in sauces
or curries or things like that.
So, I might put a recipe for you with the moong beans.
Finally I got these Himalayan pink salt.
So, two packs.
This is a lot more economical to get at the Indian store.
Because that's 400g for $3.49.
Usually if you buy this at regular stores, you'd get like
a small jar for probably more than twice the price.
So, that's a very good price at the Indian store.
So overall, all of this cost $88 and a few cents.
So, some of the produce we are gonna use up this week.
And the rest, it's going to last a few months.
And the snacks, we are probably gonna eat it over the couple of weeks.
So, that was our grocery...
Indian grocery haul for today.
I hope you've enjoyed it and I'll see you soon for other recipe videos.
Bye.