Everyone expects Indian cooking, especially curries, to use a generous amount of oil for the sautéing portion, but here's a healthier way...

When the kids were younger I made a mildly spiced butter chicken, but as their taste buds became more armoured to heat and I was left as...

This recipe is very similar to the chicken ghee roast recipe with some modifications. One of the key things to remember is that although...

My mum-in-law maintained a simplistic, back-to-basic style of cooking and that is exactly what she dished out with this very dry...

Chicken curry generally comes with lots of gravy that you can pour over steaming rice to pretty much drown it, but sometimes you just...

A friend likened cooking crab to "adult cooking" and how true! It has taken me 30 years of independent cooking to finally attempt crab...

Sometimes when we have had too much meat but we are not ready to go vegetarian, I make egg curry, expect that instead of using hard...

The word keema means minced meat in Urdu and is associated more with Northern India into Pakistan. It is usually eaten with flat breads...

For ease of appreciation, I am calling this sardine although I always use canned mackerel cause I don't like the canned sardine that we...

If the only protein you have is a can of tuna, you won't go hungry. You can make simple dishes with canned tuna such as pasta, a dry fry...

Amma's dry mutton is a highly popular dish during special occasions. This is in fact a family recipe that was passed down to her by...

Ah..Mutton Curry, God's gift to curry lovers. Making mutton curry can appear tedious, but with some practice, I promise you, it will...

This recipe can be used for both chicken or pork. Ingredients: 3 chicken breasts (deboned and cut into 1cm cubes) 2 tbsp pepper corns...

I don't know why it is called ladies fingers. I wouldn't want my fingers to look like them, but it is what it is. Also known as okra, it...

If we are doing a proper Malayalee vegetarian meal, especially for Onam and Vishu, one of the key dishes that makes a cameo appearance is...

One of the first dishes I was ever taught to make is rasam, a South Indian spiced-sourish soup that is tamarind based. The western...

In true Keralite style, this pepper chicken recipe calls for coconut. Definitely not for someone who dislikes coconuts, as you can...

I loved my mother's squid paratel, but cooking squid can be daunting to the uninitiated. I am glad that I first made it while amma was...

Ingredients: 2 lbs lean pork - remove fat and cut into small cubes 1 large onion - chopped fine 5 pips garlic 3 cm ginger 2 tbsp chili...

Thanks to my sister-in-law, Ananthi, who supplies me with these Carter's corned mutton from Singapore. Ingredients: 1 tin Carter's...