in the kitchen with: jill donenfeld’s pondicherry toasts – Design*Sponge

Each week, we try to bring you a recipe that would fit nicely in your arsenal as a stand-alone dish or a building block. When discussing recipes with Jill Donenfeld, founder of the weekly home-chef service The Culinistas, it was revealed that Jill had spent significant time in India working on a cookbook. We thought it would be a great idea for her to share a recipe for an Indian spice mix. Enter vadouvan, a popular Indian spice used in France but originally from Pondicherry. Jill has proposed making your own spice mix and using it to flavor yogurt to create the base for crab-and-avocado-topped toasts, which she named Pondicherry Toasts for the vadouvan spice in the mix. I love the idea of learning to make a spice blend and think this will be fantastic to have on hand! — Kristina