potato and pea
sukha aloo matar is a dry vegetable curry, featuring potatoes and fresh peas This is a simple and popular family dish.
simple
Straightforward recipes with minimum preparation time and that do not require unusual ingredients.
potato, pea and tomato
Alu matar tamatar is probably the most popular vegetable curry in India. This dish of potatoes, peas and tomato goes with just about everything. It is ideal to serve with any non-vegetarian dishes.
puri
Puri are a fried bread made with unleavened dough. When served they should be quite light, puffy and about the size of a mango.
roasted cauliflower
This recipe for phulkopir roast is a Bengali family recipe and on high rotation in my grandmother's cuisine. It is of those simple vegetarian dishes that features the main ingredient.
simple basmati rice
How to cook plain basmati rice. This recipe will give you light, dry, and fluffy rice that can accompany almost any Indian dish.
slow roasted duck
Slow roasted duck, with moist meat, crisp skin and a chilli hit. This is a recipe for duck recheado, or pato recheado. The recipe comes from Goa, and owes its heritage to the Portuguese.
spinach and cucumber salad with yoghurt dressing
A fresh flavoured salad where the taste of the baby spinach and cucumber are brought out by the creaminess of the slightly spiced yoghurt.
spinach saag
A common Punjabi dish, typically served in winter. Palak ka saag is a lightly spiced puree of spinach.
tomato soup
Warm up a winter evening with a bowl of freshly made tamatar ka shorba, a spicy and flavoursome tomato soup from the Mughal cuisine.
tomato, lentil and tamarind soup
Thakkali rasam is a thin lentil soup with tamarind and chopped tomatoes, a traditional spice powder and a simple seasoning of tempered oil with mustard seeds and curry leaves
vegetable sambar
Sambar is a dish from the tradition of lentil and vegetable soups from southern India. This is our family recipe for a simple sabzi sambar, or vegetable sambar.
yellow dal
A very simple and basic recipe for cooking dal. This recipe for uppu paruppu or dhandar makes a great side dish or a simple meal. Another comfort food recipe.