The Bon Appetit test kitchen has been adding a couple of small appearances by new cooks and Priya Krishna has been one of them. She’s been a little slow to grow on me and has a cute personality but seems a little more home cook-y and less professionally trained. This isn’t a bad thing because you learn a lot from being in kitchens and not all good cooks need to go to culinary school, but when a cook doesn’t have great knife skills I’m a little hesitant to learn from them. Priya mostly cooks Indian dishes from her cookbook Indian-ish which I kind of love the title of. Clearly Priya is like me and has a mix of traditional and American culture so I like the idea of cooking in an ‘-ish’ sort of manner. I also do like Indian food though I don’t get to eat it much especially here in Cortland (there are no Indian restaurants here so I’d have to make the trip to a nearby town and hope for the best) so Priya’s recipes are definitely interesting to me because I’d love to give that type of cuisine a shot at home. I also love vegetables and since a lot of Indian dishes are vegetarian oriented I tend to enjoy the concept a lot. That’s why when I saw her video for Aloo Gobi and realized it was just a mix of cauliflower and potatoes I was 100% in.

I really appreciate Bon Appetit and Priya for making Indian dishes available and accessible to the masses. Priya’s casual manner make the recipes approachable - if she can make these things, I’m gonna give it a shot too. Her recipe is super easy and I even had time to cut up some chicken and cook that while the veggies were in the oven to mix in with them later. I could use a little more of a kick with spices but this was such an easy dish to make and it seriously has everything I need in it. I did skip out on fresh cilantro leaves and ginger because I didn’t have any but i was totally fine without it this time. This is a go-to recipe for sure now. I’m already excited to make it again and I still have leftovers in my fridge today for lunch.

2nd day update: So this was still pretty good the second day, reheated but the potatoes totally didn’t hold up well. They got a little dried out in the middle and the texture was off but everything mixed together wasn’t too bad. Moral of the story is eat it all while it’s fresh. Easy.