By NIMMI RAGHUNATHAN
It’s a cauldron of contradictions. Fine dining that eschews pretentiousness; self-confessedly luxurious but affordable; Indian, except leaning international. Royal India works to challenge you and winds up satisfying you.  Indian restaurateurs usually have an urgency about them.  Looking busy, fielding calls and touting their food - 

By Alka Trivedi
For Rasmalai
5 cups milk
1/2 cup sugar

By Shami Shah
Ingredients
5-6  Flakes of Garlic finely chopped
2 Thai green Chilies finley chopped

Published by Page Street Publishing
Inspired by her love of food and family, food writer, blogger and author Swayampurna Mishra shares her favorite Indian dishes in her cookbook My Indian Kitchen: 75+ Authentic,Easy and Nourishing Recipes for Your Family. She invites you into her kitchen to share unforgettable mouthwatering food, all made convenient for today’s busy...

By Deepali Bhagat 

• 1 cup – brown rice - soak in the hot water
• 1 cup – red and white quinoa
• ¼ cup – chana dal – wash and soak

BY RENU ANAND
Ingredients
8 to 10 Serrano chilies (deseed them if you don’t want too spicy; you can also use Jalapenos)
8 to 10 curry leaves...

By KANKANA SAXENA
In her first cookbook, Taste of Eastern India, author Kankan Saxena shares the tastes of her Bengali roots in Northeastern India, and the dishes she grew up eating, ranging from comfort food to street food. With accessible ingredients and helpful tips. Kankana recreates her favorite Begali recipes and all of their sweet, sour, bitter and spicy flavors.

BY NIMMI RAGHUNATHAN
The thing about Indian food is its variety and adaptability. The potato is made into a curry in every home; still in each home, just the sleight of the cook’s hand or a pinch of a different spice, yields a marvelous new dish. Indian chef Sanjeev Kapoor takes full advantage of this, picking up a host of flavors from across gastronomic...

​BY MANSI MOTWANI
LOS ANGELES, CA - ‘Kitchen Queens’, a community of cooking aficionados in Artesia is hosting an Author Meet-and-Greet on March 11 with Nandita Godbole. A native of Mumbai, India, Godbole is an indie cookbook author currently residing in Atlanta, Georgia. Her latest book ‘Not For You: Family Narratives of Denial &...

By SMITA AMIN
Ingredients
10 Fresh skinless chicken drumsticks 
2 tablespoon plain or Greek yogurt ...