Indian Home Cooking
Sample Recipes from Indian Home Cooking
This is my favorite rasam. The broth is made with water in which legumes (I use yellow split peas) have been cooked, and it has a very li...
Simple Lentil Dal with Fresh Ginger, Green Chiles, a...
This tempering oil, with fresh aromatics as well as dried spices, gives the lentils a deeper, more complex flavor. I like using small hot...
Warm Lentil Salad with Coconut and Tomato
In this recipe, I play the role of a well-trained French home cook or, for that matter, any savvy home cook. I use the leftover cooked sp...
Spicy Squash, Eggplant and Lentil Stew
This is my adaptation of a famous Parsi dish. At first, the lovely spices in the stew taste subtle and familiar. Then, as you keep eating...
This is the way I make rice for most everyday meals at home. It’s not quite as elegant-tasting as rice pilaf, but it’s the si...
Stir-Fried Cauliflower and Potato with Crunchy Benga...
This is one way that I make cauliflower when I’m cooking for intimate parties at home. I’ve combined spices that are commonly...