Cook your summer weather sabzis before the season goes.
Recipes that we learned from our Mothers are almost sacred for us, especially when we no longer have them with us anymore. Here are 14 wonderful Mummy recipes Our Mummies often don't write their recipes down but every time our Ammas make a particular dish, it's more spectacular than the last time they made it! Without doubt, right? We were fortunate to get a few of our Ammis to jot down how she made a certain oh-so-yummy preparation
Reduce your reliance on gas usage and distribute the cooking of your meals between your toaster, microwave, electric kettle or air-fryer.
Andhra recipes for palate-pleasing pappu or dal.
In the summer, eat light, fresh meals so that your digestive system is not over burdened.
What tastes better with dahi-rice, dal-chawal or puris than the season's newly-made home pickle?
These delightful idlis are great for breakfast or nashta.
Sweet and spicy, this chutney will add a chatpata addition to your lunch/dinner.
The best summer foods of India
Refreshing salads lick the summer heat.
Jazz up your summer lunch plate with this tangy potato curry.
Readers share recipes for Majjige Saaru, Chicken Curry and Pumpkin Tonic. Share yours too!
The star ingredient of many a delicious preparation is, of course, cheese!
Welcome the king of fruits with an unusual cake.
A great way to end an Indian meal, it's usually had during summer. But with mangoes still available in the market and raw mangoes usually available year round, you can give this refreshing drink a try.
A glass of well-made gazpacho is more refreshing than a Bloody Mary or a lassi.
Get transported to Bengal with this simple, yum meal.
Readers share recipes for Papaya Shake and Kharbooja Special. Share yours too!
Rice goes down far lighter and smoother in summer when turned into a cooling Thayir Sadam.
The genesis of India's most-loved dish may go to canny cooks in the Mughal era, notes Sandeep Goyal.
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?.
International Tea Day is a good occasion to brew a special pot of chai.
Sarah Todd's bhel puri was a treat for the MasterChef judges's taste buds.
'They say our mothers lay the early foundation on which we build our dreams and lives. This holds true for me.' Kotak Mahindra Bank CEO Uday Kotak tells us about his mom's wonderful cooking.
Miss World 2024 will be crowned in India soon. Long before Aishwarya Rai and Priyanka Chopra, Yukta Mukhey and Diana Hayden, a beautiful woman from Bombay was crowned Miss World. In 1966. Reita Faria was India's first Miss World. Vaihayasi Pande Daniel/ Rediff.com met the 80 year old in Dublin recently, still as elegant, still as attractive as she was all those years ago.
Rishabh Pant was appointed captain of Delhi Capitals at the start of the season after regular skipper Shreyas Iyer, under whom the team reached final for the first time in the last edition, was out of action due to a horrific shoulder dislocation that required a surgery.
Saturday marks the Zoroastrian New Year or Navroze. Coomi Selod shares with us these special recipes that are prepared on this special day.
Aseem Chhabra remembers Master Chef Floyd Cardoz who died of coronavirus in New York on Wednesday.
MasterChef Australia Season 13 winner Justin Narayan speaks about his Indian roots.
Giants like Pepsi and Coke are fast losing shelf-space to healthier, functional options.
Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd), former general officer in commanding, 15 Corps, explains what may have happened during the Indian Army's anti-terrorist operation in Kashmir in which four soldiers and one policemen, including the commanding officer 21 Rashtriya Rifles, made the supreme sacrifice for the Motherland.
What better way to know a place than to learn its cuisine? Learn the art of working with terracotta and stoneware clay... ...If it's textiles that turn you on, a holiday in Jaipur could be just the thing for you.... ...Add an extra dimension to a holiday in spiritual Dharamsala by immersing yourself in Tibetan art...
The NITI Aayog has big plans for Indian sport.
Here's this week of truly crazy and mad stories that will make you laugh.
Vishu invokes fond memories of childhood writes Divya Nair/Rediff.com
Prem Panicker, a keen follower of the game and one of cricket's finest writers, analysed, debated and dissected the four semi-finalists on the Rediff World Cup Chat on Monday.
