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When life gives you lemons, make lemon pickle! Here is an easy lemon pickle recipe to make during the lemon season. When kept away from sunlight, this pickle can last years, if not decades! Why Lemon Oorgai Is the OG If there is one pickle recipe that unites all of India, it has to be…
Little curds are shy. As Earth slumbered into a long winter, the ground was frost-laden and cold. Growing a cauliflower may be a hard one for the beginner. But not a worry in a garden where fairies guard every bud and bloom. As if they understood, the leafy jackets protect and barely show what’s inside….
My Kale Vadai recipe takes inspiration from one of my favorite childhood memories of being propped up on my grandmother’s kitchen counter, watching her dole out hot masala vadais for our family get-togethers. These bite-sized pockets of fried lentil were steaming hot but packed a ton of flavor with minimal ingredients. Yes, the recipe was…
Home-cooked Indian fare is not the typical naan and curry you see in restaurants. Indians do not make greasy bhatures or ghee roasts on the daily. Instead, you will find something as simple and comforting as a plate of Rasam rice and urulai kari. Rasam, to the uninitiated, is a healing, medicinal broth. But this…
