Puy Lentils with Spices and Tamarind

If you want an easy dish to whip up for a mid-week meal, you may want to consider this recipe if you enjoy some spice with your lentils. Ju...

Black-Eyed Peas with Coconut Milk, Curry Leaves and Spices

Serving black-eyed peas with collard greens is apparently good luck for the New Year. It's a tradition in the American South and aroun...

Mung Beans with Fresh Mustard Greens

This simple and spicy mung bean dish is my second foray into cooking with mustard greens. I've quite fallen in love with the fresh pe...

Tamarind Chutney with Coconut, Mint and Parsley

Chutneys and sauces are pretty much a necessary and staple pairing for many savory Indian appetizers and flatbreads. Store-bought chutneys...

Rice and Lentil Indian Pancakes

Here we go again. More Indian savory pancakes, this time a spicy and filling thin pancake made with a seasoned rice and dal or lentil batt...

Spiced Red Lentil, Barley and Vegetable Soup

There are times when you don't plan ahead for dinner and you have to make do with staples, unless you want to run out to the grocery s...

Peach Lime Lassi

The first baskets of fresh brightly-colored local peaches may have coincided with a spell of intensely hot and humid weather, but the way ...

Black Mustard Seed Rice (Kadugu Sadam)

This is a spicy rice dish and it paired well with a spicy lentil rasam . It has been a while since I have shared a spiced up grain dish in...

Indian-Style Macaroni and Paneer Cheese with Spinach

One of the most interesting chapters of my highly treasured copy of Raghavan Iyer's 660 Curries is the section entitled "contemp...

Vegetarian Samosa Cakes with Tamarind Chutney

Happiness to me often comes in the form of savory Indian appetizers, such as samosas. I never can resist playing around with the classic p...