Indian grocery store in Knoxville?

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I am trying to round up some crucial ingredients for various Indian dishes, and every time I call that place on Ray Mears Blvd. to check the hours I get this weird garbled recording saying it is closed, I think. For a while he said "until April 15" and now he says "until June 15." Does anyone know the scoop, or is there anywhere in this area I could buy ghee, black salt, frozen pre-fried paneer, among other things? Thanks in advance.

[DnB]

Sutherland Ave. Holyland something market I think is the name. They have just about any spice, ingredient you might want.

I'm pretty sure that's the name. I know it's on Sutherland on the right side as you go towards Kingston Pike. I can't verify thay have frozen pre-fried paneer, however.

[Sappho]

Making your own ghee is simple. If you want to. If you don't know how, I'd gladly tell you.

[earlnemo]

Is there still a little Middle Eastern grocery beside Ali Baba? (umm. Emtobel #4!)

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The place on Sutherland kindly referred me to the Ray Mears place... they had some spices I needed, but not the things I listed. Sappho, I will take up your offer to enlighten me about ghee.

[Sappho]

Boil four sticks of unsalted butter and then turn down the heat. let it simmer, the milk solids will evaporate and settle. Keep an eye on it! Takes about 20 minutes. Remove it from the heat. Then you skim off what floats to the top. You can let it cool a bit if you want. Then you pour the golden liquid (not the whitish solids in the bottom) through a fine sieve into a ceramic pot or glass container. I use a glass canister that has a wide top, something easy to get into.

With the lid on, it will keep on the countertop without needing to be refigeration.

There it is... Delicious Ghee!


PS I was told there was an Apna Bazzar in Ktown. Don't know if that's true, the stores in other states are pretty good.

PSS Sag Paneer and Eggplant Paneer are pretty easy too!

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Thanks, Sappho! I will give it a try. http://www.fredsgarage.net/gifs/icon_smile.gif

[Hildegard]

Holy Land is mostly Arab and Mediterranean. There used to be/maybe still is a place called Taj Mahal. I never went in there but with a name like that I figure they sell Indian groceries. I would have a hard time believing there wouldn't be an Indian place on Sutherland anyway, since Golf Range and Sutherland Apts were (in my student days at least) popular residences for Indian students.

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OK - Apna Bazaar is the shee-it for all groceries Indian. Located on the corner of Downtown West Blvd. and Kingston Pike in that shopping plaza on the left (as you are heading toward the theater). They had everything on my list, plus more goodies. Thanks, Sappho! I must have been calling some defunct store.

[Sappho]

OK - Apna Bazaar is the shee-it for all groceries Indian. Located on the corner of Downtown West Blvd. and Kingston Pike in that shopping plaza on the left (as you are heading toward the theater). They had everything on my list, plus more goodies. Thanks, Sappho! I must have been calling some defunct store.

Good to know. Thanks for the report.
I ate nothing but Indian food for about four years. Ayurvedic. I got very spoiled by a great cook!

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there is also a new store to me at the walker springs shopping center. appears to be mostly chineese, but they have many other items.

I liked the live fish swimming that you can pick to eat. it reminds me of the international stores in atlanta but a little smaller.

[Bird Goddess]

Jerusalem Market on UT campus also carries some Indian groceries. They are one of the shop located on the ground floor of Shelbourne Towers.

The defunct grocery you were trying to contact on Ray Mears was a great store back in the day. While the owners' son was an engineering student in TX, he technically survived an armed robbery, but the gunshot wound to his head left him blind, paralyzed and a vegetable. His parents brought him home to Knoxville and cared for him until he died a month or so later. They tried to continue operating the store, but they couldn't handle it anymore.