It's not so hard to incorporate a variety of health-giving, glorious greens in your daily meals. Eight recipes that show you how.
The most popular and typical antidote to India's brutal summer heat is buttermilk. And it takes many delicious forms across India.
Swap your basic paneer mattar for delicious, creamy, melt-in-your mouth koftas.
This recipe has a wonderful royal touch.
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.
Who owns a recipe, and should one fight over its origins?
A hara mince uses a paste of fresh coriander and other herbs to give it its colour and distinctly different swaad.
Something light, refreshing and healthy at the beginning of the week.
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.
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.
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.
Skip milk, butter and eggs to make a truly delightful vegan cake.
Jackfruit season heralds the arrival of its tasty stirfry on our tables or better as part of banana leaf meals
Recipes to reach out to, when it rains and you want to bite into something deep-fried or baked...
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).
Sweet and spicy, this chutney will add a chatpata addition to your lunch/dinner.
Mango puree, chia seeds and sago make this an irresistible treat.
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.
Mushroom soup that gets its creaminess from healthy nuts.
Celebrate Mother's Day with a scrumptious mango dessert. Or a cocktail.
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.
This Muri Ghonto recipe has its origins in former East Bengal, present-day Bangladesh.
An easy, simple breakfast or brunch, that goes well with toast.
Do You Wanna Partner is frothy and funny without being loud or crude, which is something so many Indian comedies cannot manage, observes Deepa Gahlot.
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.
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.
You can make these cutlets in a microwave oven without compromising on their taste.
Why settle for one grain when you can start your day with multiple super-friendly grains.
This special Maharashtrian sweet is made by the CKP community just before Ganesh Chaturthi.
Always lightly saute your vegetables with pasta to create a tasty offering.
You will be as smitten with this Singaporean soup as I was.
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.
Bhindi, also known as okra or lady's finger, is an all-India fave. Some like it hot hot, sprinkled with chilly. Some like it crispy. Some like it stuffed. Some like it in a rich curry.
Bhindi, also known as okra or lady's finger, is an all-India fave. Some like it hot hot, sprinkled with chilly. Some like it crispy. Some like it stuffed. Some like it in a rich curry.
Fast, finger lickin' good, let this pasta salad, overflowing with veggies, brighten up your table and takes only 10 minutes to assemble, promises Mayur Sanap.
