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This curry builds flavor in layers rather than dumping everything in at once.

This one-pot pulao brings prawns, brinjals, and baby potatoes together with basmati rice in a lightly spiced coconut base.

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This peanut butter chicken curry is a quick weeknight dinner made with tender chicken, coconut milk, red curry paste, and peanut butter.

This is a stuffed green chilli curry where the chillies are fried until blistered, then simmered in a rich sesame, peanut, and coconut gravy spiked with tamarind.

This chicken Panang curry starts with chicken marinated in curry paste, then builds flavor in layers with lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, coconut cream, fish sauce, and Thai basil.

These deep-fried chicken fritters pack roasted gram and coconut right into the filling, which keeps the inside tender while the gram flour coating crisps up golden.

This coconut milk based curry gets its richness from a two step milk extraction that delivers both depth and silkiness.

This is one of those South Indian sweets that asks for time but gives back more than effort put in.

This Mangalorean Catholic curry relies on a toasted spice paste that carries sesame seeds, peanuts, and chickpeas along with coconut and chillies.

This is a South Indian coconut milk and yogurt curry that uses freshly ground spices and gets its body from a toasted dal paste instead of flour or cornstarch.

This creamy South Indian dessert combines ripe nendram bananas with tapioca pearls in sweet jaggery and coconut milk.

This coconut and peanut based gravy sticks to chicken pieces without turning watery, which makes it ideal for serving with parotta or dosa.

This fried rice takes the usual stir-fry route but switches plain water for coconut milk, which gives the grains a subtle richness without turning the dish heavy.

Our cast iron chicken fajitas come together with only 20 minutes of hands-on cooking to create the perfect summer dinner on the patio.

This recipe uses grilled prawns instead of deep frying, which means you get the sweet crunch of toasted coconut without any oil heaviness.