Sambar: Lentils Cooked with Vegetables and Typical Spices in a South-Indian Style
An easy guide to make sambar powder and a generic sambar at home!
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Away in the Kitchen
- Oct 30, 2021
- 8 min
Banana Flowers cooked 2 ways: Mocha'r Ghonto and Kadali Bhanda Patua
Two traditional, simple and delicious preparations of banana blossoms that leaves you asking for more!
Away in the Kitchen
- Sep 10, 2021
- 9 min
Rajma Chawal: Red Kidney Beans served with Rice
A homelike Punjabi style preparation of red kidney beans along with a few morsels of history and memories!
Away in the Kitchen
- Jul 10, 2021
- 9 min
Poda Pitha: Burnt-Base Rice Cake from Odisha
A rice cake from Odisha that lies at the heart of its ancient history and continues to be made and served in homes and temples.
Away in the Kitchen
- Jun 12, 2021
- 10 min
Kasrod ka Achaar: Indian Style Fiddlehead Fern Pickle
This fiddlehead pickle fermented in coats of mustard is a facet of Jammu's Dogra community's food proficiency sealed in many bottles.
Away in the Kitchen
- May 18, 2021
- 10 min
Dalma: An Odia Style Preparation of Lentils with Vegetables — 2 Ways
Odisha's quintessential preparation of lentils with vegetables is ancient, and food of the gods and people alike.
Away in the Kitchen
- Mar 29, 2021
- 11 min
Chorchori | Charchari: A Bengali Style of Cooking Mixed Vegetables
At its core, a chorchori is a minimally spiced Bengali mix veg dish which is extremely flexible in terms of ingredients.
Away in the Kitchen
- Mar 23, 2021
- 8 min
Saag Chole: Greens cooked with Chickpeas
To mixed greens, Auntie would add boiled chickpeas and let the mixture slowly cook to a thick consistency. The tadka was typically Punjabi.
Away in the Kitchen
- Mar 8, 2021
- 8 min
Chicken Jhol: Chicken cooked in an onion-tomato based Homestyle Gravy
The chicken gravy is loosely spiced with subtly caramelized onions and has a streak of acidity from tomatoes or yogurt, or sometimes both.
Away in the Kitchen
- Jan 4, 2021
- 11 min
Kathal ki Biryani: Jackfruit Biryani
This recipe is a keeper. It brings together the Awadhi and Hyderbadi styles of making biryani, and is neither too spicy nor too bland.
Away in the Kitchen
- Nov 20, 2020
- 10 min
Indori Poha
What sets the Indori poha apart from any other poha is the addition of sev or bhujiya and the typical poha masala.
Away in the Kitchen
- Oct 6, 2020
- 9 min
Blueberry Lemon Cake
The story of blueberry is in many ways the story of the Indigenous people of North America.
Away in the Kitchen
- Sep 27, 2020
- 8 min
Nabhe Wali Machli: Fish cooked with Lotus Roots in a Tangy Gravy
How beautifully the Kashmiri bibis added lotus roots to a summer fish curry of Nabha, something that's hardly known today.
Away in the Kitchen
- Sep 20, 2020
- 8 min
Ram Rochak Tarkari: An Odiya Style Gravy of Mung Bean Dumplings, Eggplants and Potatoes
Ram Rochak Tarkari — potatoes and eggplants cooked in earthy and fragrant spices to form a thin gravy, topped with mung bean dumplings.
Away in the Kitchen
- Sep 11, 2020
- 9 min
Shahi Paneer: Paneer cooked in Cashew Nuts and Tomato Gravy
Shahi Paneer bearing the insignia of Mughal cuisine, associates royalty with the use of nuts, saffron, yogurt, milk and cream in it.
Away in the Kitchen
- Aug 26, 2020
- 6 min
Baingan Chokha | Baigana Poda: Smoky Mashed Eggplant
A chokha or poda is a much simpler affair, rather bland if not for the pungent mustard oil, and common in Odisha, West bengal, Bihar and UP.
Away in the Kitchen
- Aug 16, 2020
- 7 min
Pav Bhaji
Jump to Recipe Print Recipe Food has always been the biggest and perhaps, the strongest source of nostalgia for me. There is a subtlety...
Away in the Kitchen
- Jul 24, 2020
- 7 min
Khumbi ki Biryani: Mushroom Biryani
This recipe is an aromatic blend of mushrooms (khumbi in Hindi) with long grained rice.
Away in the Kitchen
- Jul 19, 2020
- 5 min
Sai Bhaji: Greens and Lentils cooked in Sindhi style
Sai Bhaji is made of three key ingredients, greens, vegetables and lentils.
Away in the Kitchen
- May 9, 2020
- 3 min
Dhaba Style Dal Fry
If you have ever taken a road trip in India and haven't eaten dal fry at a dhaba on a highway, your journey is incomplete.
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