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Recipe: Zelda's Edamame Truffle Rice
Rediff.com22 May 2024Edamame + truffle oil + basmati rice = an exquisite combo.
Recipe: Traditional North Indian Jackfruit Pickle, Mango Pickle
Rediff.com15 May 2024What tastes better with dahi-rice, dal-chawal or puris than the season's newly-made home pickle?
Have You Cooked With Your Mother? I Did
Rediff.com10 May 2024Mother's Day reminded me of how my mom learned to cook Indian food.
5 Yummy Dishes Made With Leftovers
Rediff.com2 May 2024What can you do with common leftovers -- bread, coconut chutney, dal, rice, rotis.
Recipe: Vegetable Singapore Curry Laksa Soup
Rediff.com18 Apr 2024You will be as smitten with this Singaporean soup as I was.
Recipe: Zelda's Pasta Minestrone Soup
Rediff.com4 Apr 2024The zestful, satisfying mixed vegetable Italian soup makes for a special meal.
Recipe: Air Fryer Dahi Baras
Rediff.com26 Mar 2024This favourite Holi dish can be made without deep frying the baras or bhalles.
Recipe: Bok Choy Rice Porridge Soup
Rediff.com11 Mar 2024A popular Chinese green like bok choy does very well in soup too.
4 Recipes For Wonderful Green Tomatoes
Rediff.com6 Mar 2024Green Tomato Days are here. Make the most of them.
Recipe: Baked Apple With Salted Caramel Syrup
Rediff.com1 Mar 2024Apples when stuffed, baked, and gussied up with a rum salted caramel syrup and ice cream, taste sublime.
Recipe: Zelda's Raspberry Strawberry Rum Trifle
Rediff.com1 Mar 2024Strawberries, rum, whipped cream and more -- what better way to welcome Valentine's Day?
Recipe: Zelda's North-South Vangibath
Rediff.com20 Feb 2024A marriage of stuffed eggplant or brinjal and South Indian-flavoured rice has a new outcome.
Recipe: My Grandmother's Daliya Upma
Rediff.com8 Feb 2024This simple kind of upma, made from cracked wheat, is a great beginning to a day.
Memories Of Railway Puri and Alu Curry
Rediff.com31 Jan 2024There's nothing more satisfying than a meal of freshly fried puris served with a spicy raseela potato preparation.
Recipe: Zelda's Mushroom-Stuffed Ravioli
Rediff.com24 Jan 2024Making ravioli is slightly more time-consuming than rustling up pasta, but the results are unbeatable, taste-wise.
Recipe: Heart-Healthy Hola Sabzi
Rediff.com17 Jan 2024Raw green chickpeas is nicest lightly boiled with chopped onion. But try this take.
Recipe: Heart-Healthy 15-Minute Lilva Samak Pulau
Rediff.com12 Jan 2024A one-pot meal packed with nutrition and taste.
Recipe: Sarson Ka Saag & Makki Ki Roti
Rediff.com1 Jan 2024Corn rotis fried in ghee with white butter-topped mustard greens has a firm place in culinary heaven.