This dish is for fans of creamy, coconut milk-based soups.
Make your chai time exciting with deep-fried kachcha kela fritters!
Give a healthier and tastier upgrade to your regular thalipeeth.
In Tamil Nadu a steamed, spicy delicacy, looking like a modak, is made for Vinayak Chaturthi.
It's one big bowl of crunchy goodness.
Any Odia kitchen is incomplete without the comforting flavours of Dalma, a traditional dish that combines lentils and seasonal vegetables.
Not all cakes, mousses, puddings need eggs, or even sugar, and can easily be whipped up at home.
Incorporating millets into your breakfast is always a good idea.
Pair this with bhaat or steamed rice for a simple, sumptuous meal.
The Maharashtrian summer or monsoon answer to Undhiyo, it is a classic mixed vegetable preparation, presented by Chef Sanjeev Kapoor.
Corn rotis fried in ghee with white butter-topped mustard greens has a firm place in culinary heaven.
Bring Easter in with a magnificent dessert at the end of your holiday repast.
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.
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.
The most popular and typical antidote to India's brutal summer heat is buttermilk. And it takes many delicious forms across India.
There's no reason why you can't recreate street chaat recipes in your kitchen and make them healthier and more hygienically.
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.
Quick, flavourful, wholesome... This egg recipe is a lifesaver when you come home on an empty stomach!
Warm, flaky gujiya, that are just mildly sweet, are so Holi. Although they are just as popular at Diwali too.
A soupy, spicy, tasty soul-warmer to light up monsoon days.
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.
Yoghurt and kheera or cucumber go together beautifully in this Pahadi raita.
Diwali Recipe: Shilpi's Makhane Ki Kheer
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.
These delightful idlis are great for breakfast or nashta.
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.
This sweet is vegan, gluten-free and not very sugary.
It's spicy, buttery and utterly delicious.
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.
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.
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