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Leafy greens are an essential part of Indian cooking, showing up in everyday meals as well as in unique regional specialities.
A zesty, fragrant chicken curry for a lovely Sunday lunch.
Nothing uplifts a winter evening like soup.
Chicken cooked up in a charred masala is a rural Maharashtra treat and tastes divine with rice or bhakri.
The sensational desi burger is trending!
Let's venture to deeper Tamil Nadu and sample two dishes that showcase the famous Chettinad cuisine -- a chicken curry and a rice pudding.
Cook a full meal of intriguing Arunachali food and surprise a foodie loved one.
As the sun sets in a riot of colours during the days of Ramzan, the call to prayer is heard and Indian streets are transformed into places of both faith and feasting.
From coastal rasois to hill homes, festive dishes are usually special to a family and so are the grand meals that families gather for and sit down to eat either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day.
Serve it with steamed rice, chapattis, salad and papad for a wholesome meal.
Bappi Lahiri realised disco was a winning ticket and escalated his game with several more dancefloor perennials. Soon, every film producer and music director in town was down with disco fever. On what would have been Bappi Lahiri's 73rd birthday this November 27, Dinesh Raheja rewinds to the late music composer's halcyon days.
A Bombay shaadi with singing, dancing, prayers and great food!
According to Swiggy, Indians ordered an average of 95 biryanis per minute.
The world is full of daring delicacies that we are not sure we would like to take a bite of. One person's culinary delight might be another person's food horror show.
While most kofta curries are made with lamb, Hitesh makes his dish with chicken meatballs.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and Deputy CM D K Shivakumar shared a breakfast of 'nati koli saaru' at Shivakumar's residence, in an apparent show of unity amid a simmering power tussle in the state Congress.
Spaniard Sergio Garcia has apologised after a "fried chicken" jibe aimed at world number one Tiger Woods during a European Tour awards dinner on Tuesday.
The feud between world number one Tiger Woods and Sergio Garcia deepened when Woods described the Spaniard's "fried chicken" jibe as "wrong, hurtful and inappropriate" on Wednesday.
This flavourful mutton curry marries the flavours of Mangalore, Karnataka and Maharashtra.
Perk up your weekend with a very different Malaysian-inspired dish.
The holy month of Ramzan is here and Reshma Aslam is sharing her favourite recipes with us. You too can contribute to this series!
Serve them as a teatime or cocktail snack or a yummy side to a special meal.
Whether it's adding richness to festive desserts or lending silkiness to everyday meals, malai brings an unmistakable depth of flavour to a dish, lifting it into the realm of the scrumptious.
Across continents and cultures, people unknowingly cook similar dishes -- same idea, different ingredients or different method of preparation. Many Indian favourites have surprising global twins that nearly mirror our flavours, techniques or eating style.
This classic Maharashtrian dish is made without onions.
Food safety has hit headlines in India after government food safety inspectors found excess lead in packets of Nestle's Maggi instant noodles.
Care for a hot broth to welcome Father Christmas?
Mint, fried potatoes and yoghurt elevates this easy recipe for a spicy chicken rice.
The burst of cheese will take these parathas to another level.
You can substitute the chicken with paneer for a vegetarian kebab.
Chicken Ghee Roast goes well with neer dosas, steamed rice, dosas, appams, idiyappams, plain biryani or chapattis.
The biryani, happily, was the very definition of simple. light-textured, with a subtle tomato-ey twang, it reminded me a lot of a North Indian pulao. The flavour whack came from the sweet-sour Khatta Baingan simmered in a gravy of tamarind, jaggery, fried mustard seeds, and spices, served with it.
The classical Middle Eastern snack gets a chicken twist.
Would you take up a food challenge to make chicken momos with healthy ingredients?
Why just eat noodles and samosa separately when you can combine them together for a tasty treat?
Kadhis made from yoghurt have many avatars all over India. It takes on countless forms. Creamy and thick in the north with the addition of besan and malai-wallah dahi. Coconut-rich in the south or the thinner Mor Korumbu. Much sweeter in the west.
