In most Indian homes, lunch doesn’t really feel complete without a tall glass of chaas at the end of it, especially once the heat sets
Methi is one of those ingredients that shows up in an Indian kitchen in about five different forms – fresh leaves in a sabzi, dried
I have stood at more Indian kitchen counters than I can count, chopping onions for the tadka, eyes streaming, while someone inevitably tells me to
I cannot remember a single tadka in my mother’s kitchen that did not involve a handful of curry leaves going into hot oil first. They
Every year as the weather starts to shift, my grandmother would bring out a jar of homemade amla murabba and insist we all have a
My grandmother cooked almost everything in clay pots, dal, rice, even her pickles were stored in earthen jars. For years our family cooked mostly in
Every festival season in my house, the sugar jar sits mostly untouched while the jaggery box gets refilled twice. My grandmother never really explained why
I used to think the rise in idli batter overnight was basically magic – one day it’s a flat, watery mix of rice and dal,
With Onam around the corner and sadya spreads all over my feed, I keep noticing the same detail in every photo: no plates, just banana
The first monsoon rain always makes me crave a plate of hot pakoras and masala chai, but my grandmother had a different reaction – she’d
