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  • Indian kitchen rocks -videorecipes

    Here’s a new playlist on my YouTube channel. The playlist is called Indian Kitchen Rocks.

    The videos in that playlist will teach you how to cook Indian dishes and the recipes and instructions are available both in Finnish and English languages. And best of all – you can enjoy these videos with the background music!

    The videos in this series of Indian kitchen rocks are extraordinary in the sense that I have not photographed them. Instead the videography is done by my good friend who knows to cook Indian food and knows to cook it well. Many thanks to her. My job was to edit, translate and make the subtitles for the videos.

    So, if you want to learn how to cook Indian cuisine, turn on the captions in the YouTube menu at the bottom of the screen and check these out:

    Cooking Toor Dal Fry

    At the moment you can find videos of how to make the Indian Toor Dal Fry -lentil sauce, Indian confectionery Besan Burfi and South Indian breakfast Poha.

    Ingredients for the TOOR DAL FRY -videorecipe

    • Toor dal, ½ cup
    • Big onion chopped , 1
    • Big tomato chopped, 1
    • Ginger finely chopped, 1 tbsp
    • Garlic, finely chopped, 1 tbsp
    • Curry leaves, 10
    • Green chili, 1
    • Coriander leaves, 3 tbsp
    • Red chili powder ¼  tsp or according to taste
    • Turmeric powder ½ tsp
    • Salt to taste
    • Coriander powder 1 tsp
    • Cumin powder 1 tsp
    • Asafoetida 1 pinch
    • Mustard seeds 1 tsp
    • Cumin seed 1 tsp
    • Oil 2 tbsp
    Cooking poha

    Ingredients for the POHA -videorecipe

    • Poha,  1 cup
    • Chopped onion, 1 cup
    • Chopped tomato, 1 cup
    • Roasted peanut, 1 tbsp
    • Roasted cashew nut, 1 tbsp
    • Green chili
    • Curry leaves, 5
    • Coriander leaves, chopped
    • Lemon, ½ 
    • Oil, 1 tbsp
    • Coriander powder, ½ tsp
    • Cumin seed, ¼ tsp
    • Mustard seed, ¼ tsp
    • Salt
    • Turmeric powder ⅛ tsp
    • Jeera powder ½ tsp
    • Asafoetida, 1 pinch

    Ingredients for the BESAN BURFI -videorecipe

    • Condensed milk 400g
    • Lentil flour 2 ½ cups
    • Crushed nuts ¼ cups
    • Ghee 9 tbsp

    Indian food is at its best meat-free, additive-free and healthy, as the examples in the video show.

    If you appreciate this Finnish-Indian collaboration and want to learn more about Indian cooking, subscribe to my blog and my YouTube channel. It is nowadays complemented with recipe videos, in addition to travel, art and traveldestination videos!

    You can read more food blogging, especially Indian cuisine, in Finnish here and in addition to Indian cuisine you can also get to know India and traveling in India from my web book INDIVUE – Trip to India.

    If you’re excited to try these recipes, you can also take a picture of your ready-made food and tweet it with the hashtag #IndianKitchenRocks!

  • Best of 5 of Hrithik Roshan -movies

    Best of 5 of Hrithik Roshan -movies

    (Affialiate link marked with * a star)


    Hrithik Roshan is an Indian actor born in 1974 and is very well known for his dancing skills. He belongs to the Bollywood film family and his father is the film director Rakesh Roshan.

    INDIVUE has reviewed Bollywood films for over one decade and ended up recommending the following 5 films as the best of all Hrithik Roshan films so far –

    THE BEST of 5 BOLLYWOOD FILMS of HRITHIK ROSHAN

    • Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham (2001) ****
      The film is a romantic classic and belongs to the Bollywood must-see series. There are Shah Rukh Khan, Amitabh Bachchan, Kajol and Kareena Kapoor Khan starring in the film alongside Hrithik Roshan.

    You can watch the film * Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham here

    • Kites (2010) ****
      In the movie Kites the actors Bárbara Mori and Hrithik Roshan make each other sparkle.

    • Guzaarish (2010) ****
      Guzaarish, a film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Hrithik Roshan, illuminates to its viewer what life is like when a person becomes permanently disabled.

    You can watch the film * Guzaarish here

    • Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara (2011) ****
      Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara is a tribute to friendship, freedom and adventure and the film works best on a widescreen.

    You can watch the film * Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara here

    • Agneepath (2012) *** ½
      Hrithkik Roshan performs again an excellent role in Agneepath, though it is desirable that Roshan’s roles remain more neat in the future.

    You can watch the film * Agneepath here

    INDIVUE – Trip to Bollywood will tell you more about Indian movies! You can read it also in Finnish.

    You can also listen to the movie soundtracks of all the above films in the links below.

    As a bonus listen to the * WAR movie soundtrack also. The film was released this week in India and there will be Hrithik Roshan, Tiger Shroff and Vaani Kapoor starring in that film. What makes that film so special is that it has scenes filmed in Lapland, Finland, as well. Read more about Finland from the link attached and read this article about Hrithik Roshan in Finnish here.