Picture a weekday evening when the dal is simmering, the sabzi needs stirring and the rice has to be ready at the same time as everything else. An electric rice

Think of a Sunday morning with besan cheela, a paneer bhurji and a plate of masala uttapam, all before anyone asks for tea. One pan can do all three if

Picture a festival weekend: atta for forty puris, two kilos of onions for the sabzi, carrots grated for halwa, and a bucket of coconut chutney, all before the first guest

Think of a Tuesday dinner: two onions, four tomatoes, a handful of coriander, ginger, green chillies and a bunch of beans, all before the tadka. A vegetarian Indian kitchen does

Every dish on this site starts on a burner. The dal simmers on one, the pressure cooker whistles on another, and the tawa waits on the third for the rotis.

In most Indian homes the tawa is the one pan that never goes back in the cupboard. It makes the morning parathas, the lunchbox rotis and the dinner phulkas, and

No appliance in an Indian kitchen works harder than the mixie. It grinds the coconut for a chutney, the soaked dal for a batter, the dry masala for a sabzi

An Indian vegetarian kitchen runs on prep. Before a single pan goes on the flame there are onions to be diced, tomatoes to be broken down, ginger and garlic to

For most Indian homes, the OTG is the first real oven the kitchen ever owns. It is what turns a gas-only kitchen into one that can bake a birthday cake,

Nothing in an Indian kitchen works as hard as the pressure cooker. Dal, rajma, chana, rice, potatoes for a sabzi, a quick batch of steamed idlis: most of what gets