This creamy, smokey pasta goes best with a glass of chilled white wine. Cheers!
A popular Chinese green like bok choy does very well in soup too.
Make the ragi batter in advance and store it in the refrigerator. It comes handy when you're short of time in the kitchen.
This light, tasty preparation can be eaten with ghee rice or even by itself.
My grandmother made a fragrant, simple wheat halwa that I often hanker for. For its taste and the memories it brings up.
Slightly different from more standard egg sandwiches, the garlic and cheese adds a different flavour.
Cook up a batch of this healthy, low-calorie soup and serve it with crusty bread or chicken sandwiches.
The lemon is marinated for six months in a jar with sea salt.
Lebanese Fattoush Salad is light, nutritious and delicious.
This light zucchini quiche is versatile and zucchini can be swapped for any other vegetable.
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The recipe for a wonderfully tasty classic Cacio e Pepe pasta.
If you have never tasted Hyderbadi Mirchi Ka Salan you have missed something in life.
Dress up any fresh seasonal greens with an imli-dal-coconut koottu-style preparation.
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This recipe is a take on the dish that was served up to us in a quaint pub in the tiny village of Rostrevor in the very pretty southeast corner of Northern Ireland, overlooking the Carlingford Loch.
An Irish soup designed for the Indian palate.
You will be as smitten with this Singaporean soup as I was.
These breakfast fajitas can be made with chicken too instead of egg. For a vegan or Jain version use 250 gm tofu crumbled instead of egg.
Fresh vegetables in a green coconut curry with basmati rice is a sumptuous meal.
Whip up spreads on the double, especially when supplies run low.
This versatile lentil salad can be a whole meal by itself or an accompaniment to a light evening repast.
The star ingredient of many a delicious preparation is, of course, cheese!
Fried eggplant or baigan in a sandwich? Much, much more yum than you could possibly imagine.
A mildly-spiced, sans too much garam masala 'hotel'-style potatoes with peas in a thick gravy that goes well with butter naans.
Stuffed rice paper rolls are light, nutritious, unusual and yum.
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.
The best summer foods of India
Crunchy cabbage, yoghurt-based makes Mor Kuzhambu served with ghe rice, fried fish and rice papad makes for a satisfying dinner.
Pasta procured in Italy cooked up with lightly braised vegetables that can be mimicked in India.
It's great as a quick breakfast, lunch or snack.
This versatile Thai red curry takes any kind of vegetable or protein in it and is served with steamed rice and garnish.
Any vegetable, when stuffed in a wheat covering and fried crisp with ghee and served with a dab of white butter, becomes fit for a king's banquet.
Buttery papparadelle buried under a wild mushroom sauce and topped with shavings of fresh Parmesan cheese is a meal made in heaven.
Don't make these basic mistakes while cooking Western or continental food.
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