A Desi Girl

What I made for lunch today--

mango lassi:
Bottom layer: grapes and toasted almonds

then raita, then garbanzo beans, and then the curried chicken

"Desi Girl" is the name of a song in which I have learned some choreography to in my Bollywood dance class. A desi girl is an American born Indian girl. I have decided that I am a pseudo-desi girl. My friend likes to sing "Caucasian girl" instead of Desi girl when we listen to the song.

Anyway, today my delightful Bollywood dance partner in crime came over to practice. I decided I'd make an Indian dish for lunch. I almost made chicken vindaloo as an homage to Outsourced. I found a fantastic recipe on epicurious.com. It was so good, I now want to make Indian food all the time. I bought garlic naan at Trader Joe's, and I made up my own recipe for a mango lassi.

Here is the recipe for the curried chicken, spiced garbanzo beans, and raita: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Curried-Chicken-Salad-with-Spiced-Chickpeas-and-Raita-243206

For the mango lassi, I blended mango, mint, nonfat plain greek yogurt, and skim milk. I used about 2 oz of yogurt, between 1/2 and a whole cup of milk, 5 or so mango sliced that Trader Joe's sells pre-cut, and a some mint. I think I should have added more mango.