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Gobi Manchurian: great balls of China?

Sarah and Doug Season 2 Episode 69

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In this episode... You know we love weird food and this is a weird one. How do make a Chinese and Indian cross over dish? How do you elevate it? Oh - and did we mention it's cauliflower? Yeah, how do you make THAT tasty? Tune in to find out!

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Dixit, Neha. “From Gobi Aloo to Gobi Manchurian: Celebrating 200 Years of the Cauliflower in India.” Scroll.in, 2022.

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