Using black rice in your idlis makes them more nourishing.
Presenting the most-viewed recipes this year.
Warm, flaky gujiya, that are just mildly sweet, are so Holi. Although they are just as popular at Diwali too.
Serve it with steamed rice, chapattis, salad and papad for a wholesome meal.
Spiced up pureed fresh corn in a kickass street food from Indore.
Craving for a traditional Maharashtrian breakfast that's delicious and healthy?
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.
Refreshing salads lick the summer heat.
A fresh salad that pairs watermelon with feta cheese is one of those classic contrasting sweet-salty combos that is delightful.
Mayur Sanap experiments with the classic Kashmiri eggplant dish that has tamarind as its star ingredient.
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.
Always lightly saute your vegetables with pasta to create a tasty offering.
Bring Easter in with a magnificent dessert at the end of your holiday repast.
Steamy weather brings a surfeit of fruit, especially in India. Each of them lends flavour and quality for drinks sipped when the mercury goes haywire.
Steamy weather brings a surfeit of fruit, especially in India. Each of them lends flavour and quality for drinks sipped when the mercury goes haywire.
A quick side-dish that's a good addition to the dal-chawal combo.
A hara mince uses a paste of fresh coriander and other herbs to give it its colour and distinctly different swaad.
No vegetables in your larder? Never mind. Worry not. Use peanuts.
The most popular and typical antidote to India's brutal summer heat is buttermilk. And it takes many delicious forms across India.
You can turn out dairy-free bites using tofu instead of paneer.
Ameya Warty feels his concoction of stuffed paneer will be a showstopper at your home every time you make it.
Simple, easy laddoos to up the festive mood.
Mushroom soup that gets its creaminess from healthy nuts.
March 21 is World Tiramisu Day. It's the day to honour that extraordinarily light, melt-in-your-mouth, boozy dessert that originated in northern Italy (some say the region of Veneto, some say further east in Friuli-Venezia Giulia).
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.
An easy recipe for a mid-week meal.
Here's a simple recipe or breakfast or as an evening snack at home.
rediffGURU Dr Deepa Suvarna, a pediatrician with 25 years of experience, debunks common myths related to health and nutrition of kids.
The runaway popular Cilbir, poached eggs served with hung yoghurt, is made umpteen ways in Turkey. Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com seasons with paprika and fresh dill.
The runaway popular Cilbir, poached eggs served with hung yoghurt, is made umpteen ways in Turkey. Hitesh Harisinghani/Rediff.com seasons with paprika and fresh dill.
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.
When the creaminess of avocado melds with the tang and spice of chilly jam and feta on toast, we have a winner.
Tindli Alu is a very basic sabzi recipe. But nutritious and tasty. Use the same recipe to make a whole variety of easy vegetables.
