A mildly-spiced, sans too much garam masala 'hotel'-style potatoes with peas in a thick gravy that goes well with butter naans.
Ishtu is light on the tummy and usually served hot or warm. It goes well with idlis, dosas and appams.
A peanut stuffed snack invented for winter evenings with garam chai.
Dr Dinesh Jain shares some valuable tips.
Buttery papparadelle buried under a wild mushroom sauce and topped with shavings of fresh Parmesan cheese is a meal made in heaven.
You would be surprised how wonderful homemade Pav Bhaji tastes and you can monitor the salt and butter.
Tangy and sweet, it will be a lovely addition to your weekend spread.
Fresh vegetables in a green coconut curry with basmati rice is a sumptuous meal.
Make this hummus over the weekend, and have it with bread, pita or fresh veggies for the next few days as a healthy snack.
A hearty filling vegetable soup made with simple ingredients.
This recipe, handed down from my grandmother, marries a yoghurt gravy with okra or bhindi.
Assassin's Spaghetti, or in Italian Spaghetti All' Assassina, gets its name not from the murder you commit on the pasta -- because you actually kill off the spaghetti by burning it crisp -- but from the levels of red chilly that will do in the eater.
Lebanese Fattoush Salad is light, nutritious and delicious.
Stuffed rice paper rolls are light, nutritious, unusual and yum.
Do you know how to buy the best lady's fingers? Or choose the best cauliflower?
Reshma Aslam tells us how to whip up a popular South Indian dish for breakfast.
We invite readers to share their recipes with us! Deepti Jain wrote in to us and showed us how to make Fried Coconut Rawa Idli
This Mexican breakfast is bursting with textures and flavours.
This New Year, impress your guests with these classic recipes that have been given healthy twists.
Hot weather calls for bringing on the salads, colder the better.
'It was a machinery of death. A large number of Hindus were first converted and then persecuted from 1560 all the way to 1812!' says novelist Richard Zimler.
Start your day on an upbeat note with two good-for-you recipes.
Sarah Todd's bhel puri was a treat for the MasterChef judges's taste buds.
His mother was so furious with him that she made him eat karela for lunch and dinner for an entire week.
Celebrate Lohri with traditional Punjabi recipes.
This recipe deserves a spot on your breakfast menu.
The monsoon calls for a bowl of simple, nourishing, soup.
Why settle for the ordinary, when you can try out something traditional on Makar Sankranti?
Get transported to Bengal with this simple, yum meal.
Whip up spreads on the double, especially when supplies run low.
It is refreshing, fresh, summery and incredibly tasty.
As part of our ongoing series, we invite readers to share their recipes with us! Deepti Jain shows us how to make Pasta in White Sauce
Chef Aditi Handa, who is deeply invested in baking, makes the most delicious sourdough.
Ahmedabad is home to the strangest of cuisines and is a city of contrasts, if you look beyond the tourist places.
Passion and not getting distracted by temporary failures are the keys to success, Gurbaksh Chahal, 27, told the 18th conference of the Network of Indian Professionals held in Toronto last month.
Modi's irrigation push in the Budget is aimed at scoring on the political front along with achieving growth targets
Whoever thought an Australian chef would represent India so beautifully in the MasterChef kitchen?
Each region in India has its own culinary narrative that speaks through its distinct dishes. Each cuisine packs within itself, textures, layers, ideas and historical nuggets so that all of Indian food cannot be pigeonholed together to say that there is one Indian cuisine. A fascinating extract from Sonal Ved's Whose Samosa Is It Anyway?.
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