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Though Indian food has a reputation for long-simmered sauces and complicated dishes involving fleets of bowls with chopped herbs,...

Chicken cooked in a tomato sauce is one of the great culinary equalizers. Almost every cuisine around the world seems to make a version...

These tart little flavor bombs are a great way to add a burst of citrus to a salad, to season a piece of fish, or add to a dish of...

Sometimes all you need for a perfect meal is for two ingredients to come together happily. I’m a big believer in the maximalist appeal...

I got this recipe from Parinitha Manudeva who, along with her husband, run the Devangi Athithya, a bed and breakfast in Thirthahalli, a...

Some dishes are just so perfect that you don’t need to mess with them. But, then of course you do. Çilbir is the perfect example of a...

Although I say this about every Indian cuisine under discussion, I have to state, with renewed vigor, that the Bengalis really do have...

If you’ve ever browsed the meat case at your local butcher around the holidays, then you’ve seen the few plump, round capons that many of...

This salad perfectly bridges the gap between summer and fall. Instead of treating romaine with kid gloves, we dial up the heat and grill...

Add a little color and zest to your winter soup repertoire with this coconut-rich cauliflower soup. Adapt the garnishes to your own...

This is a great, easy-to-make dish that feels familiar and comforting but gets a little kick in the pants from the addition of sweet...

Of all the wonderful recipes in The Saffron Tales, perhaps the most magical is fesenjoon, an alchemical dish that combines walnuts,...

Breakfast takes all sorts of shapes and comes in a dizzying array of flavors. This recipe, for a stir-fry of basale soppu, comes from a...

Lakshmi Sudhakar (L) and Sudha Venkataraman (R) An ongoing column that explores the wide, wonderful world of home cooking. Every cuisine...

Breakfast is one of the most criminally undersung aspects of Indian cooking. Indian breakfasts are rarely, if ever, sweet. They use of a...

One of the many unexpected delights of cooking Indian food is the chance to incorporate dishes, almost in their entirety, into more...

As we get into the dog days of summer, the temptation to resort to an all-salad diet is strong. There's fantastic produce at the markets,...

Indian pickles are a wildly different beast from their Western counterparts. They’re fiery concoctions made out of a variety of...

A poem should be written on the uses of leftover rice. There’s something wonderful about how something so humdrum can get turned into...

It is a rare dish that can take you to another place and time. Every time I make a batch of my mother’s sorpotel, an unctuous stew of...