You can slowly build up spices over six to nine months by adding ajwain, jeera, coriander, cardamom and cinnamon powders for flavouring different recipes, says Madhavi Bhardwaj.
Food blogger Kathryn Kannampuzha shares an interesting recipe.
Andhra recipes for palate-pleasing pappu or dal.
Characterised by simple flavours and local ingredients, Manipuri cuisine is about fish, rice and green leafy vegetables.
Stuffed Karela or Bharwa Karela is a much-favoured dish. Bitter gourd is given a neat slit, deseeded, filled with a spiced onion-tomato-garlic stuffing, before frying.
Chef Xavier Fernandes from Um Doiss Tres in Mumbai shares his special summer recipes.
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The Aussie all-rounder 'invests' in himself with help of a Mumbaii-born chef Velton Saldanha.
Try your hand at yummy dry fry Mangaluru clams. Or attempt this delicious Bengali preparation of prawns with taro leaves.
This special biryani from north Kerala is known far and wide for its distinctive taste that comes from the use of a distinctive rice.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought response from the Uttar Pradesh government on a plea challenging the state's directive mandating the display of QR codes on all eateries along the kanwar yatra route, which reveal the names and identities of the owners.
Chef de Cuisine Shadab Ahmed of Sofitel Mumbai BKC shares two simple and delectable recipes.
The humble garlic is a treasure trove of health benefits.
Two special dishes to include in your Onam feast.
Did you know that garlic reduces the chance of miscarriage in women?
Winter greens served up with corn rotis must be had once before the cold weather departs.
The hit jodi of aloo and palak with a delicious tadka of garlic! What's not to love?
Very small prawns can be made into a kind of chutney that greatly soups up your average meal.
Two types of cabbage give this Chinese rice its crunchy but excellent flavour.
Over the years, with some amount of experimenting, I have learnt exactly what freezes well and what does not.
rediffGURU Dr Shyam Jamalabad offers advice on how to improve your dental health and hygiene.
To feel better on a chilly day, dine on this soul-warming veggie soup.
Red Square and VDNKh easily rank among the most striking places I've visited -- both for their historical significance and architectural splendour.
My admiration for Russian culture, vision and ambition grew with every step as I clocked the miles, Nitin Sathe tells us after a visit to Moscow and St Petersburg.
A bench of Justices M M Sundresh and N Kotiswar Singh said it was not going into the other issues over display of names of the hotel or dhaba owner and the QR code, Tuesday being the last day of the Kanwar Yatra.
Dr Rajeshwari Panda, head of the dietetics department at Medicover Hospital, shares a list of foods that promote gut health.
Dr Aniket Mule, consultant, internal medicine, KIMS Hospitals, offers practical advice to protect yourself from mosquitoes and water-borne diseases like malaria, dengue and chikungunya.
Garlic export from India has come to almost nil this year. Traders attribute this trend to increased domestic demand and higher production cost here.
Chicken cooked up in a charred masala is a rural Maharashtra treat and tastes divine with rice or bhakri.
Paneer is for air fryers too. And lightly cooked Western-style meals.
Soft on the inside, crisp on the outside, falafels taste divine eaten piping hot, dipped in hummus or rolled in pita or a flatbread.
This flavourful mutton curry marries the flavours of Mangalore, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Chicken mince, arbi, mushrooms and bok choy in one neat package. Delicious!
A simple, one-pot dish of fragrant basmati rice, spices and fresh fish.
'For 40 years, India valued only technical skills. IITs, coding -- that became everything.' 'Soft skills were sidelined. But those are the skills that will keep you employable now, not technical skills.'
November is the start of the soup season in India. A bowl of garam garam soup is the just the way to kick off an evening.
The use of freshly-made mango pickle makes all the difference to this recipe for a yum paneer starter.
A zesty, fragrant chicken curry for a lovely Sunday lunch.
Healthy food = healthy mind and body.
It's spicy, buttery and utterly delicious.
