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The first step to learn any type of cooking is to know the basic. To cook an Indian dish you will know about the spices and flavors.

For cooking a gravy or curry, spice like turmeric, whole coriander, cumin, garam masala, salt, sugar and red chilly powder are required. Make paste of them and put in hot oil. When a nice smell comes out and oil separates from the gravy, add water to boil for some minutes. One can also use chopped onion, paste of ginger and garlic, while frying.

Most of the dishes needs popping up of whole roasted spices like cardamom, cinnamon, whole cumin seeds, whole coriander seeds, whole mustard seeds, etc. You have to heat the oil. Then put one or combines spices according to the dish to bring out the flavors from them. Once they pop-up, you can put other paste or chopped ingredients.

Other important parts of Indian food are coconut, mustard paste, cashew paste, poppy seed paste and curd. You can add one of these things or by combining few of them in a dish to make a whole new dish.

Dal or pulses are very easy to make. First, boil and cook it. You can cook it with vegetables, too. After it has been cooked properly, next part is to add flavor to it. Take another pan and put oil to heat. Put onions or tomatoes or other dry seeds and let them crackle. However, in India there is variety of pulses available, which should be known first.