A word on spices in Indian recipes

Indian recipes not only call for a lot of spices, but they also want them to added at specific points in the cooking procedure -- beginning, before-the-middle, middle, after-the-middle, end. Not only that, but you also have to add a whole bunch of them at a certain point without pause and go right on cooking.

The only way I have found to get around this is to pre-measure all the spices into small bowls or dishes.I then line the dishes up in the right order -- trying to remember at which end of the line I'm supposed to start. That way, I can just throw in the whole dish at the appropriate moment and go on cooking.

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