I used to skip the tadka step when I was in a hurry, tossing raw cumin and mustard seeds straight into the dal. It never
My mother’s cure for almost everything growing up was a glass of warm turmeric milk – a scraped knee, a cold, even just a rough
Every year, a few weeks before Ganesh Chaturthi, my grandmother would start practicing her modak pleats, insisting hers had gotten rusty since the last festival.
Soaking rice before cooking, letting dal sit in water for a few hours, leaving almonds in a bowl overnight — these are things most of
There’s a particular smell that means dinner is close in a lot of Indian kitchens — an eggplant charring directly over an open flame, skin
