Indian Cooking, like any other cuisine, has its own list of cooking techniques and equipment that are needed to get things working in the kitchen. To follow the recipes, it is essential to understand the terms. Several recipe writers feel that a little gets lost in the translation to English, and they use the original terms.

We naturally have tools of the trade, and the list that I have here is more practical for the twenty-first century lifestyle rather than what used to be found 4,000 years ago.