Aloo Paratha
Whole wheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and roasted crisp in ghee on a hot tawa.
12 recipes
Whole wheat flatbread stuffed with spiced mashed potato and roasted crisp in ghee on a hot tawa.
A thick, spongy South Indian pancake made from fermented rice-and-lentil batter, topped with a generous char of onion.
Crisp, golden rice-and-lentil crepes cooked thin on a hot tawa and folded over a turmeric-yellow spiced potato filling, served with coconut chutney and sambar.
Semolina and curd steamed on the spot with no fermentation — MTR's wartime idli, ready inside the hour.
Split Bengal gram simmered with spinach and finished with a garlic-cumin tadka.
A silky, blitzed carrot-and-ginger dressing poured over crisp iceberg, cucumber and tomato — the starter salad every Japanese steakhouse serves before the grill even heats up.
Everyday toor dal, tempered with garlic, cumin and curry leaves — the dal that actually shows up on Indian tables more often than anything else.
Basmati rice and mixed vegetables simmered together with whole spices into one fragrant, fluffy one-pot meal.
Boiled potato cubes tossed with whole cumin, ginger and green chili in a quick North Indian stir-fry.
Roasted semolina simmered soft with a mustard-and-curry-leaf tempering, finished with peanuts and a squeeze of lemon.
Taro fried hard in mustard oil with carom seeds, finished sharp with amchur.
Baby apple gourds slit into pockets, packed with a toasted coriander-cumin masala, and simmered in a light onion-tomato base until fork-tender.