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Get Ahead readers Zelda Pande and Nandita Iyer present their favourite summer recipes.
Rediff reader Sangita Agarwal shows you how to make it.
Divya Nair suggests five versatile ways to put your dosa batter to good use.
The perfect recipe to beat the sweltering heat.
With the mango season finally here, treat your kids to a dessert on skewers.
Readers share recipes for Majjige Saaru, Chicken Curry and Pumpkin Tonic. Share yours too!
Readers share light, easy to digest preparations that have a cooling effect in the sweltering heat. Share yours too!
Sure the rains have hit parts of South India, but as the country continues to be under the heat spell, Harnoor Channi-Tiwary belts out these dishes to beat the sun!
This simple health drink is full of fibre and low on calories.
Delicious summer recipes that are impossible to resist.
Perfect recipes for a hot summer day.
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.
This thanda thanda tamarind sherbet makes for a refreshing drink on a hot summer afternoon, says Mayur Sanap.
Make summer fun with these simple recipes.
If you're looking for cool ways to chill this summer, Namrata Thakker gives you some filmi cues.
Andhra recipes for palate-pleasing pappu or dal.
Fruity recipe solutions for the heat.
Beat the heat with these refreshing mocktail recipes.
When the heat comes rolling along, in killing waves, it's time to take out your best ammunition. Yup, we need the cooling magic of kokum in all our foods and drinks.
3 recipes that will help you beat summer blues.
Beat the heat with a bowl of refreshing salad. Chef Ranjan, Executive Chef, Hotel Sahara Star shares his recipe.
It will help you cool down on a sunny day.
During the mango season we use mangoes to make everything, starting from a breakfast juice, to a midday summer cooler, to a currry, in chaat, in parathas, in rice, as dessert or ice cream, as chutney and pickle. Every bit of a mango is used in different stages of ripening as well.
The mango season is upon us and in India we use mangoes to make everything, starting from a breakfast juice, to a midday summer cooler, to a currry, in chaat, in parathas, in rice, as dessert or ice cream, as chutney and pickle. Every bit of a mango is used in different stages of ripening as well.
You can't say no to these refreshing summer drinks.
Turn your leftover chapattis into a hearty snack.
A traditional drink for mercury impossible days.
Try out this drink on days when the heat is unbearable.
It's one big bowl of crunchy goodness.
'Modi's charisma may have weakened as last year's Lok Sabha poll results showed but in the eyes of the Sangh Parivar, it has not waned.' 'Minus a strong BJP government at the Centre for another decade and more, there is apprehension that an anti-Hindutva government could reverse many of the ideological gains that the Modi dispensation has achieved through its three terms,' points out N Sathiya Moorthy.
These delightful idlis are great for breakfast or nashta.
Mixologist Naveen Kotyankar's cocktail recipes are perfect for summer.
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