Some common Indian spices and herbs used in a tadka are cumin seeds, mustard seeds, caraway seeds, curry leaves, green or red chilies, peppercorns, bay leaves, cinnamon, coriander seeds and nigella ...

Anupy Singla built her career on storytelling, working as a broadcast journalist before shifting to documenting her family’s recipes and making Indian food accessible to a larger audience. “Indian as ...

Indian cooking blends tradition with technique, where methods like tempering, roasting, and slow cooking unlock deep flavors.

The prospect of cooking Indian can easily overwhelm, considering the array of unfamiliar ingredients, techniques and seasoning combinations. How many other culinary styles, for instance, commonly call ...

I often think of spring as the season of rebirth and renewal. But for the chef Asma Khan, growing up in India, it was always late summer that replenished the cracked earth and drove down the ...

Aimee Levitt is a freelance writer in Chicago. Madhur Jaffrey initially became a cookbook author, she writes in the first line of An Invitation to Indian Cooking, “as a gradual maneuver in ...