You are from India !
You are a foodie !
You must master the art of cooking . You will not get the rich taste of spices and the vegetable cooked in water curry anywhere else . Indian food is as diverse as India , rich in taste and fulfilling . These are the spices which made India under foreign rules for centuries . What they wanted else then to trade our spices!
Indian cooking is as complex as meditation . Not the complex it seems at first , but not as easy for novice too . The basic ingredient of Indian cooking are the panchtattva . You need fire the fire to cook . It must contain some water , oil . The earth grown millet, cereals or pulse . The love and emotion for the person you are cooking for is the ether . It is almost impossible to escape from the fumes and flavors which is the air element .
If you want to make any curry . Simply heat some oil in the pan , and put some whole spices like cumin , bay leaf , dried red chili etc in small quantity. The whole spices gives unique flavour to food .Let it become red for some time . Then add the live spices like onion , garlic , ginger etc . If the stuff you are cooking gets cooked before the vegetable or meat you are trying to cook , then it does makes sense to fry these live spices . Now mix the main ingredient you want to cook and add the spice and salt to it .
Now the Rice cooking is easiest . Just boil the rice in enough water till it gets cooked . It will take time to be expert in cooking rice , so that you do not need to throw water after cooking .
Making Roti/Dosa and chapati are most difficult stuff . You need some flour and kneed it in right way and leaving it to right time . After the perfect round shape and proper making takes some time to learn .Better to learn it with person who is expert in making these .
But for now curry and rice will work !
