14 articles
Sonia Sharma follows the festival's last day through Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Ahmedabad and Chennai, with the trade routes behind the food and two home recipes you will not find in a sweet shop.
By Sonia Sharma||6 min read
Crispy Lat Mai Paneer — Indo-Chinese dry chilli paneer — made at home during lockdown: paneer fried golden and tossed with soy sauce, chilli sauce, and vinegar.
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Two pantry-staple recipes for lockdown cooking: quick masoor or moong dal on the stovetop and soothing rice congee — minimal ingredients, easy steps.
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Chocolate-peanut butter dessert, mango ice cream, kulfi and more — six summer sweets that need zero cooking and just a fridge. Full recipes linked.
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Back in 2012, a 99-cent Android app promised to rescue Thanksgiving with tandoori turkey, kalakand, and five more fusion recipes. The idea outlived the app.
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Three simple cucumber preparations for hot weather: a cucumber-radish raita, a quick kachumber-style salad, and a cucumber-mint cooler.
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Cottage cheese packs ~28g protein per cup at ~163 calories. Here are sweet and savory ways to eat it — from breakfast bowls to lasagna swaps.
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Volume 8: spring calls for restraint — vivid-green palak paneer, cold cucumber-mint raita, simple basmati, and thin roomali roti.
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A rainy-spring Friday menu: lamb keema with browned onions and peas, hand chapati, a carrot raita — and a glass of something cold.
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Lunch decides your afternoon. Six healthy lunch formulas — Indian and global — built on protein, fiber, and vegetables, each ready in 20 minutes or less.
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Diwali is October 26th — here are three easy, no-fail sweets to make at home: Sandesh, Kesar Shrikhand, and Coconut Ladoo.
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Two ways with peak-season watermelon: a frozen margarita with lime salt, and a spicy watermelon-corn salad with chaat masala.
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Four lunch salads worth adding to your rotation: warm lentil, white bean and tuna, chickpea with tahini, and shaved fennel with citrus.
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Sweet potatoes with mustard seeds beat sweet potatoes with marshmallows. An Indian American Thanksgiving: two generous cuisines, one table.
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