This spicy fried fry served with crunchy curry leaves and sliced lemon is a crowd-pleaser.
Over the years, with some amount of experimenting, I have learnt exactly what freezes well and what does not.
Adding greens to your dal transforms it into to the best companion for your rice.
This easy, tasty pulau can be cooked in 15 minutes.
Have you ever eaten as satisfying a breakfast as potato fried up with tapioca pearls?
Pulaus can gussy up a meal, especially when you are having guests over.
The burst of cheese will take these parathas to another level.
Food blogger and Rediff reader Charulatha Rao sent us this yummy dessert recipe.
Diwali is a season in India for sweet-making. A treasure of traditional Diwali recipes from all corners of our India.
Chicken cooked up in a charred masala is a rural Maharashtra treat and tastes divine with rice or bhakri.
Weight watchers have often avoided rice for chapati. But is it the best option?
We publish readers' responses to our recipes invite. Here's how to prepare Nutty Veggies, Baby Corn Manchurian, Ghee Rice and Bitter Gourd Curd Kurma.
Go experimental while making your modaks! Try unusual stuffings and coverings.
What can you do with common leftovers -- bread, coconut chutney, dal, rice, rotis.
Jahnavi Patel shares three delicious Navratri recipes she learned from her mother Namrata Patel.
A delicious Mangalorean dish that is served with steamed rice or neer dosas.
This engineer makes modaks with scientific precision.
While the days are still not that warm, nourish your soul with two unusual khichdis.
This special Maharashtrian sweet is made by the CKP community just before Ganesh Chaturthi.
This simplest of lentil recipes had with rice and some crispy onions makes for a deeply-satisfying meal.
A popular South Indian sweet dish, it's made from rice flour, jaggery and grated coconut.
No vegetables in your larder? Never mind. Worry not. Use peanuts.
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A marriage of stuffed eggplant or brinjal and South Indian-flavoured rice has a new outcome.
The customary naadan or home-cooked meal is rather memorable fare.
Jayanti Soni and her family return each year to Bhinmal, when they can, to celebrate Diwali in her family home.
You can't go through life without a jar of South Indian tomato chutney in the you fridge.
Your mornings are made if you start them with this spiced vermicelli dish.
A special, handed-down-through-the-generations recipe of Yakhni Pulao.
Two Indian sweets magically combined into one.
An intriguing pulau that could be a great lunch fixture
Dress up any fresh seasonal greens with an imli-dal-coconut koottu-style preparation.
Make the ragi batter in advance and store it in the refrigerator. It comes handy when you're short of time in the kitchen.
Swati Sodhi, 36, a mum of two, tells us how she went from 92 kg to 60 kg in a year.
A piquant curry to jazz up steamed rice. Have it with papad.
An adaptation of one of the signature dishes of Himachal Pradesh.
Make your Diwali lovelier with this flaky, sugary traditional snack.
