Sweet Potato and Spinach Curry

Instead of a bland, one-note dish, this complex vegetarian curry has a multilayered profile and a genuine kick.

Dinner Tonight: Moroccan Spinach and Chickpeas

I had assumed that the mixture of spinach and chickpeas was solely an Indian combination. The creaminess of the spinach is a perfect match for the hearty chickpeas, and with the addition of a few spices, it could turn into a satisfying full meal. Well, it turns that if you change some of those spices and add an interesting new thickener, you can end up in Morocco with a completely new dish. It's kind of astonishing.

Eggplant Curry - South Indian Brinjal Curry

South Indian Eggplant Curry - roasted eggplant simmered in a strongly spiced curry sauce so it soaks up flavour and collapses into a delicious mush. SO GOOD!

Vegetable Curry

One of those rare real curries made with spices found at everyday supermarkets. Make this mixed Vegetable Curry with your choice of vegetables!

Dinner Tonight: Spicy Sweet Potatoes with Lime

Crispy baked sweet potato wedges with a tangy yogurt sauce.

Potato and Pea Curry (Aloo Matar)

A curry perfect for the winter months, when root vegetables are in abundance.

Chickpea, Coconut, and Cashew Curry

This 30-minute curry is intense with garam masala and ginger cooled by coconut milk and ground toasted cashews.

Spiced Eggplant With Tomato and Mustard Seeds

Spices, tomato, and mustard give this easy vegetarian eggplant dish heat and zing.

Beyond Curry: Dry Masala-Stuffed Eggplants

Each type of eggplant has its own unique character and consequently its own style of preparation. The fuller, dark purple ones are roasted, the longer lavender ones are sliced and fried and the small black ones become tiny morsels bursting with the flavors of stuffed spices.

Beyond Curry: Khichdi with Eggplant Fritters

If Indian food is just chicken tikka and biryani to you, then please keep reading. In India, food varies from region to region, home to home, and religion to religion. And it's not all spicy and complicated. Most Indian food is surprisingly simple to make and very, very rewarding to eat. In this new Indian cooking column, I'd like to introduce you to the real food we cook and eat at home. For starters, khichdi, a sort of one-pot comfort meal of rice, lentils and vegetables.