Go beyond wishes, flowers, gifts for mothers... Lovingly prepare a meal for your mom, who must have prepared 18,000 meals for you, if not more.
Bewitching fragrances and a symphony of sounds would herald the arrival of Chauthi in the Someshwar home.
Millets, dal and a bunch of spices can be steamed together for an awesome version of this rice cake.
Not all cakes, mousses, puddings need eggs, or even sugar, and can easily be whipped up at home.
Water chesnuts can be magically converted into a toasty warm winter evening snack.
The Maharashtrian summer or monsoon answer to Undhiyo, it is a classic mixed vegetable preparation, presented by Chef Sanjeev Kapoor.
Bring Easter in with a magnificent dessert at the end of your holiday repast.
Any Odia kitchen is incomplete without the comforting flavours of Dalma, a traditional dish that combines lentils and seasonal vegetables.
Several ingredients make Goan food deliciously stand apart: Very fresh seafood. The use of organic vinegars and sometimes feni (the typical Goan liquor) too. Grated coconut. Signature masala pastes. Many types of meat.
Can Christmas be any more festive with this magnificent dessert all the way from Romania?
A meal of hilsa curry with vegetables mixed in, poured over steamed rice, can make your Sunday perfect.
Get cookie baking this Christmas! Make scrumptious cookies for the season
The most popular and typical antidote to India's brutal summer heat is buttermilk. And it takes many delicious forms across India.
A fresh salad that pairs watermelon with feta cheese is one of those classic contrasting sweet-salty combos that is delightful.
Parathas made from buckwheat, water chestnut flour and alu have a different texture, and an altogether unusual taste.
Basic fermented rice is served up with a wide range of ingredients to make a wonderfully, comforting meal.
Mayur Sanap experiments with the classic Kashmiri eggplant dish that has tamarind as its star ingredient.
Chickpeas, darkened with tea leaves and spiced up with cinnamon, bay leaves and other spices is a fine accompaniment to puris, bhature, rotis or even rice.
Will you try the actor's version of the popular Mumbai street-side snack?
After 40 days of Lent -- when Christians all over India forego meat, seafood and eggs and sometimes additional favourite items like desserts etc -- Easter lunch is time to break fasts. It's often a cosy family lunch with traditional meat dishes. But larger spreads are also planned with a variety of tempting items. Let us help you plan it...
Our sweets feature now often on international food sites. The New York Times carry their recipes frequently. So does BBC Food. Cook's Illustrated made Indian sweets their cover feature late last year. TasteAtlas highlighted kulfi and rasgullah places. World over folks are discovering just how delicious our sweets are -- so creamy, so milky, so enjoyable.
Eating after fasts is about lightly-prepared foods, like sauteed green banana sabzi.
Corn rotis fried in ghee with white butter-topped mustard greens has a firm place in culinary heaven.
Have you ever tried tossing up a simple chickpea salad with a wine and apple cider dressing? It bumps it up to the gourmet category.
Is tomato the most loved vegetable maybe after potatoes? We need tomatoes in much of what we cook, be it pizzas, pastas, soups, curries, sandwiches, salads, dals, rasams, sabzis, raitas, sambars. Tomatoes provide health with taste -- they have plenty of antioxidants that help fight inflammation.
How to make a satisfying comfort food from leftovers.
Warm, flaky gujiya, that are just mildly sweet, are so Holi. Although they are just as popular at Diwali too.
These hot and crispy vadas are perfect with hot chai.
There's no reason why you can't recreate street chaat recipes in your kitchen and make them healthier and more hygienically.
Every round of tossing colour and playing Holi is punctuated with a tall cold glass of Thandai.
Every round of tossing colour and playing Holi is punctuated with a tall cold glass of Thandai.
It's not so hard to incorporate a variety of health-giving, glorious greens in your daily meals. Eight recipes that show you how.
Whether you're a peanut lover or just looking to add more protein options to your menu, you have come to the right place. Choose from any of these 15 recipes for a tasty dish that toasts the humble singdana or mungfali.
Time to surprise your family and friends with a really unusual dessert.
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