#polesapart series Jump to Recipe Leaves Make things Steamy by Aralyn Beaumont is part of the book, You and I Eat the Same: On the...

semolina roasted in ghee to an earthy brown, topped with thrice the amount of water and almost the same amount of sugar -I cannot think of a

Whether made as a longstanding pickle using oil or as an instant version without oil, it comes together with minimal spices and salt.

An easy almost no-cook formula to make mash like chutneys from charred or smoked veggies like tomatillos, eggplants, gourds, squashes!

A delicious and easy recipe to make a typical North-Indian green chutney along with a guide to variate the recipe and make herb chutneys

Perfect with a good cuppa and a book, it brings me joy every time I bake it. Make it and treat yourself this season.

A fruity rasam made in a similar manner as a tomato rasam to tickle your senses!

Four easy ways to prepare delicious dishes with bottle gourd.

Three ways of making easy stir fries with bitter gourd.

This fiddlehead pickle fermented in coats of mustard is a facet of Jammu's Dogra community's food proficiency sealed in many bottles.

You will never go wrong with fiddleheads no matter what you do! This stir fry with minimum pantry staples is my favourite!

With few spices at disposal and a solid Dutch oven or pressure cooker, it takes about 30 minutes to make this pulao.

Odisha's quintessential preparation of lentils with vegetables is ancient, and food of the gods and people alike.

How this moringa leaves rasam recipe landed in my mother's kitchen is somewhat up in the air. With a lot of residue it's a sure treat!

Cape gooseberries are summer days bundled in wings and wrapped in a hue of yellow, and this easy chutney keeps them well for long.

At its core, a chorchori is a minimally spiced Bengali mix veg dish which is extremely flexible in terms of ingredients.

To mixed greens, Auntie would add boiled chickpeas and let the mixture slowly cook to a thick consistency. The tadka was typically Punjabi.

Sooji upma, Indian semolina made into a breakfast delicacy is one such dish that entails an understanding of how flavours balance each other

The chicken gravy is loosely spiced with subtly caramelized onions and has a streak of acidity from tomatoes or yogurt, or sometimes both.

This recipe is the simplest kind of recipe to cook taro in typical north-Indian flavours, and has a typical Punjabi influence