Badami Pasanday

Mughlai cuisine consists of dishes developed in Medieval India at the centres of the Mughal Empire. It represents a combination of the cooking style and recipes of Central Asia and North India. The Mughlai cooking styles is used in the traditional cuisine of north India (especially Agra and Delhi), Hyderabad, Dhaka and the Karachi. The cuisine is strongly influenced by Central Asian cuisine, the region where the Turco-Mongol Mughal rulers…

Murgh Makhani

Kundanlal Gujral, the founder of Moti Mahal restaurant in Daryaganj, New Delhi, was the first to bake chicken in a tandoor, creating the biggest invention in north Indian cuisine, the “Tandoori Chicken”. He also invented “Makhani gravy”, the mother of North Indian gravies, thus transforming Tandoori Chicken into delicious Murg Makhani or Butter Chicken. It…

Sarson ka Saag

Nothing is more quintessentially Punjab than Sarson ka Saag and Makki ki Roti, it’s an earthy hearty food abundant in flavour, nutrients and colour; much like the land and the people it belongs to. The local cuisine of Punjab is heavily influenced by the agriculture and farming lifestyle prevalent from the times of the ancient Harappan civilisation. Locally grown staple foods form the…

Saas ni Machhi

The simplicity of complex flavours in this Parsi fish curry ‘Saas ni Macchi’ feels like a symphony on the palate. According to the Qissa-i-Sanjan (account of the early years of Parsi settlers on the Indian subcontinent), the Parsis fled to India from Iran, in mid seventh century, due to reasons of religious freedom. They were allowed to settle in…

Mangalorean Kori Sukka

Indian west coast has been influenced for centuries by trade, invasion and asylum seekers. This coastline, which spreads from Mumbai to Calicut, boasts of a vast range of dishes, from  multiple culinary styles, which is an amalgamation of local taste and foreign influences. Dishes in south India used variety of local grown spices from time…

Rara Gosht

Rara Gosht (pronounced as Rada Gosht too) is a rich Mughlai dish which is said to have originated in the kitchen of Nawabs of Awadh (todays Lucknow) like innumerable other delectable dishes famous globally. Each Awadhi dish had its own combination of spices and a specific way of cooking, which was never compromised with. But…