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5 Yummy Dishes Made With Leftovers
Rediff.com6 days ago

What can you do with common leftovers -- bread, coconut chutney, dal, rice, rotis.

Recipe: Vegetable Singapore Curry Laksa Soup
Rediff.com18 Apr 2024

You will be as smitten with this Singaporean soup as I was.

Recipe: Summer Fig Rocket Salad
Rediff.com11 Apr 2024

Figs in a salad? Gorgeous to the tongue.

Recipe: Zelda's Pasta Minestrone Soup
Rediff.com4 Apr 2024

The zestful, satisfying mixed vegetable Italian soup makes for a special meal.

Recipe: Kashmiri Methi Chaman
Rediff.com1 Apr 2024

The Kashmiris know how to make paneer best.

Recipe: Air Fryer Dahi Baras
Rediff.com26 Mar 2024

This favourite Holi dish can be made without deep frying the baras or bhalles.

Recipe: Bok Choy Rice Porridge Soup
Rediff.com11 Mar 2024

A popular Chinese green like bok choy does very well in soup too.

4 Recipes For Wonderful Green Tomatoes
Rediff.com6 Mar 2024

Green Tomato Days are here. Make the most of them.

Recipe: Baked Apple With Salted Caramel Syrup
Rediff.com1 Mar 2024

Apples when stuffed, baked, and gussied up with a rum salted caramel syrup and ice...

Recipe: Zelda's Raspberry Strawberry Rum Trifle
Rediff.com1 Mar 2024

Strawberries, rum, whipped cream and more -- what better way to welcome Valentine's Day?

Recipe: Zelda's North-South Vangibath
Rediff.com20 Feb 2024

A marriage of stuffed eggplant or brinjal and South Indian-flavoured rice has a new...

Recipe: My Grandmother's Daliya Upma
Rediff.com8 Feb 2024

This simple kind of upma, made from cracked wheat, is a great beginning to a day.

Memories Of Railway Puri and Alu Curry
Rediff.com31 Jan 2024

There's nothing more satisfying than a meal of freshly fried puris served with a spicy...

Recipe: Zelda's Mushroom-Stuffed Ravioli
Rediff.com24 Jan 2024

Making ravioli is slightly more time-consuming than rustling up pasta, but the results...

Recipe: Heart-Healthy Hola Sabzi
Rediff.com17 Jan 2024

Raw green chickpeas is nicest lightly boiled with chopped onion. But try this take.

Recipe: Heart-Healthy 15-Minute Lilva Samak Pulau
Rediff.com12 Jan 2024

A one-pot meal packed with nutrition and taste.

Recipe: Sarson Ka Saag & Makki Ki Roti
Rediff.com1 Jan 2024

Corn rotis fried in ghee with white butter-topped mustard greens has a firm place in...

Christmas Recipe: Gingerbread Men
Rediff.com19 Dec 2023

These men make Christmas jolly.

No Pasta in Italy!
Rediff.com8 Dec 2023

Pasta procured in Italy cooked up with lightly braised vegetables that can be mimicked...

Recipes: 10 Simple 20-Minute Sabzis
Rediff.com4 Dec 2023

Tindli Alu is a very basic sabzi recipe. But nutritious and tasty. Use the same recipe...