Indian recipes: easy step-by-step recipes

Kerala’s signature dish: deep-fried chili fritters

Large, green chili peppers coated in a spiced chickpea flour batter, fried until golden brown: a crispy snack from Kerala, perfect for tea time.

⏱ 30 min
👩‍🍳 Easy
💵 $0.20/serving

Muttamala, son of the cardamom-flavored egg

Average score* 65/100

Desserts

Muttamala, son of the cardamom-flavored egg

A Malabar delicacy: poached egg yolks in a cardamom-scented syrup, served with a steamed meringue cake.

⏱ 1 hr 10 min
👩‍🍳 Hard
💵 $0.54/serving

Sesame-crusted chickpea and banana with jaggery

Average score* 74/100

Desserts

Sesame-crusted chickpea and banana with jaggery

Two Indian sweets: grilled besan laddus (fried chickpea balls) cooked in ghee, and a banana puree cooked with jaggery and scented with cardamom.

⏱ 50 min
👩‍🍳 Medium
💵 $1.57/serving

Average score* 83/100

Drinks

Refreshing jasmine-flavored syrup

An aromatic Indian drink: jasmine flowers infused in a sugar syrup, with a hint of lemon, served very cold over ice.

⏱ 2 hr 55 min
👩‍🍳 Easy

“Muttai bonda,” or “fried egg doughnut,” is a popular street food in India.

Average score* 94/100

Snacks

“Muttai bonda,” or “fried egg doughnut,” is a popular street food in India.

An Indian sweet from Kerala: half-hard-boiled eggs immersed in a thick batter of spiced besan (chickpea flour) with chili peppers, then deep-fried to a go…

⏱ 1 hr 5 min
👩‍🍳 Easy
💵 $0.62/serving

Mango smoothie with ripe mango, yogurt, and coconut

Average score* 79/100

Vegetarian

Mango smoothie with ripe mango, yogurt, and coconut

A Kerala-style mango and mulberry curry, cooked with spices, coconut, and ground cumin, followed by a yogurt sauce, and finished with a mustard-based "tad…

⏱ 45 min
👩‍🍳 Medium
💵 $0.95/serving

Crispy Indian Murukku, made with rice flour

Average score* 75/100

Snacks

Crispy Indian Murukku, made with rice flour

A traditional snack from southern India: roasted rice flour and lentil urad, mixed with sesame seeds and butter, then pressed into spirals and fried until…

⏱ 1 hr 15 min
👩‍🍳 Medium
💵 $0.55/serving

Average score* 95/100

Snacks

hard-boiled eggs, deep-fried

An Indian snack: hard-boiled eggs cut in half, coated in a spiced besan (chickpea flour) and rice batter, and then fried until golden brown.

⏱ 1 hr
👩‍🍳 Easy
💵 $0.62/serving

Average score* 51/100

Drinks

Homemade black grape wine

A very simple homemade wine: black grapes crushed, sugar, boiled and cooled water, and a small amount of yeast, all fermented together for twenty-one days.