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A journey that started in a tiny Texas kitchen.
Masala Journey is a Houston, Texas recipe project built around family curries, street snacks and the spice tin your grandmother swore by.
2014
One spice tin, one stove
Founder Meera Patel moved to Houston with a masala dabba and a notebook of her mother’s recipes, determined to cook the food she missed with what the local grocery store had on its shelves.
Today
Twelve recipes, tested twice
Each recipe is cooked at home at least twice, on a regular stove, before it is published. If a step needs a special tool, we say so; if it does not, we say that too.
Always
Every cook is welcome
Whether you grew up on this food or are tasting it for the first time, the road is the same: toast the spices, be patient with the onions, and taste as you go.