The Great Indian Curry Hack

As a broke immigrant college student, I was heartbroken by US Indian food. So I learned how to make my own with ingredients I could find.

Niranjana Iyer
Published in
8 min readJul 9, 2019

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Photo by Jason Leung on Unsplash

It was orange, with an oil slick on the surface. In its murky depths were four submerged triangles. It was a paneer butter masala, and it was $7.99. Reader, my heart broke.

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Niranjana Iyer
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California-based writer, editor, book reviewer, and college essay consultant. Twitter: @ninaiyer Website: www.thecompellingstory.com