Ali Khan Eats the best food in Austin: April 2024. Austin's first Laotian sit down restaurant, a farm to food truck smashed burger, an underground barbecue lamb barbacoa brunch, and South Asian + BBQ mash up add up to Ali Khan's April looking for the best food in Austin

Ali Khan Eats at Rowdy Rooster in New York City. The Indian fried chicken concept from Unapologetic Foods has won James Beards with their Indian restaurants

Ali Khan Eats at Austin City Limits Music Festival 2023. Everywhere he ate during Weekend Two at ACL Eats.

Ali Khan Eats Indian Buttermilk Chicken Curry, which isn't exactly a thing but it should be. I'd go out and buy buttermilk before Id reach for yogurt. Spices make the real difference though, so shop wisely. I like Spicewalla from James Beard winning chef Meherwan Irani.

Ali Khan Eats hits up ACL Eats at Austin City Limits Music Festival weekend two. His fav bite was a head scratcher and the carb loading was stellar as well.

Lamb Vindaloo: a go to recipe Like a lot of you, my first experience with Lamb Vindaloo was at an Indian restaurant. My parents immigrated from Bangladesh and our lamb curries were just called . . . lamb curries. Indian restaurants in the US are notoriously monotonous with their carbon copy menus, lunch buffets and decor. Which is more a reflection of the American appetite for Indian/South Asian food for that “ethnic option”. Well times are changing. Diners are becoming ...

A Pakistani curry specialty with a Texas twist.

The Butter Chicken Recipe This is it. The reason I tell people to buy an Instant Pot: the butter chicken recipe from famed Instant Pot Food Blogger Urvashi Pitre who literally is called “the butter chicken lady”. The first time I tried this I told my wife we aren’t ordering Indian takeout anymore. Yeah, this is a good one . . .

An Easy Dal Recipe This easy dal recipe post has been a long time coming. Dal is the comfort food of my people. Growing up in a Bengali household in the Midwest in the 1980s, “Indian food” was seldom something we would go out for. It was the food we ate at home on weeknights and on weekends at friend’s homes. It was a cuisine I took for granted until I went off to college and found myself 2000 miles ...

The Vitals: recipe: Instant Pot Lamb Dum Biriyani  difficulty: medium – lots of spices/ingredients, a fair amount of prep if you’re not used to making Indian food on the daily health rating: indulgent. If you do this right with fatty lamb, whole milk yogurt and white basmati rice, you hit a cheat meal 4 sho  time: Instant Pot time 6 minutes + natural pressure release. 30 minimum minute marinade time. 1 hour prep.  Much to my chagrin, the wifey scored ...