From coastal rasois to hill homes, festive dishes are usually special to a family and so are the grand meals that families gather for and sit down to eat either on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day.
What is Christmas without some traditional food?
Christian communities across different states of India have unique family recipes for home-cooked meals to celebrate Christmas,
In the days leading upto Christmas, cooking and baking reaches a peak at so many homes across India. Try these authentic Indian recipes for the holiday season.
Tell us what's special for Christmas in your hometown.
Journalist and founder at Northeast Odyssey, Hoihnu Hauzel shares her recipe. You can share yours too!
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Ivan Crasto offers his family's recipe for Goan semolina cake and Chocolate Fudge.
Have a special dish that you have been cooking every Christmas?
Tell us what you are cooking for Christmas this year. Share your recipes and photographs.
Presenting a traditional recipe from the state of Tamil Nadu.
Anita Aikara shares her aunt Joyce Benny Meledath's recipe of milk pudding.
Rediff readers share their traditional recipes. You can share yours too!
Patcy N shares her mom Amey Fernandes' Pork Roast recipe.
In the days leading upto Christmas, cooking and baking reaches a peak at so many homes across India. Try these authentic Indian recipes for the holiday season.
These recipes are simple and will give a festive twist to your Christmas party.
It's time to share your favourite Christmas recipes!
The unique East Indian community of Mumbai is one of the city's oldest Catholic communities. Their Christmas celebrations have a distinctive blend of Portuguese influence, Maharashtrian roots and age-old family traditions.
Ronjita Kulkarni shares her mom Swati Das' recipe for a Christmas Raan Roast
Tell us what you'll be cooking this year for Christmas.
Special Christmas cocktail recipes shared by Gurpreet Singh, beverage manager of The Westin Mumbai Garden City.
We bring you traditional Christmas recipes from homes across India.
This special biryani from north Kerala is known far and wide for its distinctive taste that comes from the use of a distinctive rice.
Can a Mallu Christmas celebration ever be complete without mutton stew and appam for breakfast?
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Mini Mohan shares a Christmas recipe for cake lovers.
Chitra R shares some traditional festive recipes from Tamil Nadu.
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Anita Aikara shares her mother's special recipe.
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What tastes better with dahi-rice, dal-chawal or puris than the season's newly-made home pickle?
Two traditional treats to ring in the Christmas festivities.
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Genslin Vinodh shares some special recipes from her hometown.
'If we can't celebrate life itself, it is not a festival anymore, but one's ignorance of what's happening around us.'
Two traditional Christmas recipes for you.
Two homemade treats that will transform your Christmas celebration into a glorious one.