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🇮🇳 Hindi · Intermediate Level 2

PART 1 · LESSON 7 OF 30 · 30 MINUTES

Dadi ji's Recipes

A winter morning in the Lajpat Nagar kitchen with Noah's notebook open: Dadi ji's instructions for her pumpkin and her lentil dumplings, less sugar, a slow flame, soak at night and grind in the morning, write it and taste it, and the first plate is hers.

Audio instruction: English

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THE STORY

The kitchen of the Sharmas' house in Lajpat Nagar on a winter morning; Dadi ji calls Noah beta and says the familiar you, and Noah says the polite you to her.

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बेटा, कद्दू में कम चीनी डालना.be-taa, kad-doo men kam chee-nee daal-naa.Beta, put less sugar in the pumpkin.
दादी जी, घी कितना?daa-dee jee, ghee kit-naa?Dadi ji, how much clarified butter?
धीमी आँच पर पकाना.dhee-mee aanch par pa-kaa-naa.cook it on a slow flame
जितना हाथ कहे. धीमी आँच पर पकाना.jit-naa haath ka-he. dhee-mee aanch par pa-kaa-naa.As much as the hand says. Cook it on a slow flame.
जल्दी मत करना.jal-dee mat kar-naa.Don't hurry.
और दही भल्ले, दादी जी?aur da-hee bhal-le, daa-dee jee?And the lentil dumplings in yoghurt, Dadi ji?
दाल रात में भिगोना.daal raat men bhi-go-naa.soak the lentils at night
दाल रात में भिगोना, सुबह पीसना.daal raat men bhi-go-naa, su-bah pees-naa.Soak the lentils at night, grind them in the morning.
कल मुझे फ़ोन करना.kal mu-jhe fon kar-naa.Call me tomorrow.
यह सब लिख लूँ?ye sab likh loon?Shall I write all this down?

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