Indian

The world of Indian sweets is vast and varied, but Anupy Singla offers a homemade introduction with an instant pot recipe for carrot halwa. 

India offers a wealth of flatbreads, but one of the most common is roti, made from whole wheat flour. Try Anupy Singla's stovetop recipe. 

One meaning of chaat is "to lick," and this recipe for a mixture of spiced vegetables and legumes will make you want to do just that after eating it with your fingers. 

Biryani is a crown jewel of Indian cuisine, a dish that is often theatrically unveiled during a feast. Try Anupy Singla's version from Indian As Apple Pie.

Dal, which encompasses legumes such as lentils, peas, and beans, is a category in South Asian cuisine almost as broad as curry. Try a simple, comforting one from Anupy Singla. 

Spices are integral to Indian cooking, whether roasted whole and added straight to a dish or in the form of a blend of various spices such as garam masala. Curried chickpeas make great use of blends.

Anupy Singla's family is from Punjab. She shares a deeply spiced stovetop chicken curry from that northern Indian state that demonstrates what "curry" actually is. 

The new cooking show Indian As Apple Pie aims to bring Indian food into the home cook's everyday rotation. And if you're going to eat fiery curries, raita is a necessity. 

In a new cooking show, Anupy Singla demonstrates not just the recipes but techniques of Indian cuisine, as well as shortcuts to make it accessible during the week. 

Restaurants and chefs in Chicago are highlighting lesser-known regional cuisines and creatively incorporating global influences to broaden conceptions of what Indian food can be.

A wave of restaurants is helping showcase the diversity of Indian cuisine in Chicago, particularly spotlighting the coconut-based, seafood- and beef-heavy cuisine of the southern state of Kerala.

Sugar was first refined in India, and the country consumes more sugar than any other. Indian sweets or mithai are unlike anything else in their variety, flavors, and prepartion, but they are little-known in the West.

Onam is a harvest festival traditionally celebrated with a vegetarian feast known as sadya in the south Indian state of Kerala. Avondale's Thattu serves Keralite food, and hosts a sadya. “People are not aware of the diversity of Indian cuisine,” says the owner.

Two cousins opened the first Eggholic, a restaurant featuring a distinctive style of Indian food focusing on eggs, in Schaumburg in 2018. By the end of this year, there will be 28 Eggholics across the country. How did they do it?

“God bless the pioneers of the Indian community who brought Indian food [to the United States], but we’ve gotten settled into this greatest hits world,” says Zubair Mohajir, the chef behind the buzzy Wicker Park restaurant Wazwan.