Indian Recipes

Mango Rabri (Milk Pudding with Mangoes)

A listless sun glares down on a parched earth. An ominous lull. Not even bird song greets my fatigued soul. ...

Jackfruit is in profusion this summer. The nondescript sapling Dada and I discovered in the backyard quite ...

When my fishmonger calls me this morning to inform that he has (finally !!) managed to get fresh shol maach, ...

The fledgling jackruit tree Dada and I had discovered quite by chance one nondescript evening as we chased ...

I yearn for something feisty this morning. Tear-jerking spicy yet sinfully enticing. Grey foggy winter ...

I seek inspiration this morning. Something novel. Something I have never attempted before. I sit ...

Grandma is not addicted to her paan. (betel leaf) It's only those time-stops-still afternoons, once, maybe ...

I sit on the welcoming red oxide floor of Grandma's bedroom, the windows overlooking the verdant garden open ...

The incredibly bony virtually inedible gada of the prized chitol maach rests on a kansa thala in front of ...

The laal shaak resting pretty on the kitchen counter draws me to a listless afternoon decades back. The ...

Needless to reiterate, we Bengalis love our fish. And over hundreds of years, we have been intrepid ...

The plump line-caught Bay of Bengal prawns that rest on my kitchen counter this morning pose infinite ...