This week Jeff interviews Pooja Jain, a cooking teacher at the Cooking Block in Redlands. She tells Jeff about her background growing up in and living in several regions of India. Jeff talks to Pooja about her Mumbai street food cooking class and gets a chance to watch her conduct her class.
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Cooking Block Website
Pooja Jain on Facebook
Pooja Jain is the cooking instructor at the Cooking Block in Redlands. She specializes in Indian Cuisine
Pooja’s hands-on cooking class
Pooja’s spices
During the class, cooking block owner, John Shrader shows how the Indian Cheese Paneer is made.
Paneer cheese cooking
Paneer out of the pan
In this class Pooja shows them how to prepare Mumbai Street Food: Roti Rolls, Pav Bhaji, Vada Pav, Chana Chaat
Pooja shows the class how to roll out roti
Learning to prepare Roti
Making Roti
Roti making