Mayur Sanap experiments with the classic Kashmiri eggplant dish that has tamarind as its star ingredient.
This sweet is vegan, gluten-free and not very sugary.
It's spicy, buttery and utterly delicious.
Try out this drink on days when the heat is unbearable.
The most popular and typical antidote to India's brutal summer heat is buttermilk. And it takes many delicious forms across India.
Warm, flaky gujiya, that are just mildly sweet, are so Holi. Although they are just as popular at Diwali too.
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.
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.
It's not so hard to incorporate a variety of health-giving, glorious greens in your daily meals. Eight recipes that show you how.
Date palm jaggery and tapioca go into making this delicious pudding.
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.
From Uttarakhand comes a simple, tasty meal.
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.
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 hara mince uses a paste of fresh coriander and other herbs to give it its colour and distinctly different swaad.
Nuts, whiskey, dark chocolate, milk chocolate, cream... Can anything be more wicked?
Mango shrikhand with garam puri is a classic combo.
Have some chatpata chaat is always fortifying.
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.
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).
Chicken cooked up in a charred masala is a rural Maharashtra treat and tastes divine with rice or bhakri.
This delicious bowl of coconut milk kheer is hard to resist.
Overripe bananas, fit for discarding, can make the most gorgeous addition to a chocolate cake.
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.
A healthy recipe with coriander seeds and nuts.
The most satisfying venture is to turn leftovers into tasty, fresh dishes. Kitchen recycling has its own joy. It reduces food waste, saves time and calls for great culinary imagination.
Mushroom soup that gets its creaminess from healthy nuts.
The most satisfying venture is to turn leftovers into tasty, fresh dishes. Kitchen recycling has its own joy. It reduces food waste, saves time and calls for great culinary imagination.
Go experimental while making your modaks! Try unusual stuffings and coverings.
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.
The very thought of certain deep-fried snacks gets your digestive juices going. Why not make them healthier?
A raseela aloo that incorporates nutritious drumsticks.
Darker varieties of millets are rich in beta-carotene, a powerful antioxidant that your body turns into vitamin A to boost your immunity, according to WebMD. A good source of fibre, protein, prebiotics, cooking with millets, an ancient grain, is the enlightened way.
When the urge for pakodas starts up every variation of this irresistible snack deserves to be savoured. And believe us when we say the varieties are limitless. All species taste best with a steaming cup of chai.
Unresolved succession plans and informal ownership structures are fuelling bitter family fights across India's corporate boardrooms.
