From mild to spicy, these easy curry recipes bring bold flavor to your kitchen—no takeout required, just simple ingredients ...

Sri Lankan Curry Powder. 1 cup coriander seeds. Advertisement. 1/2 cup cumin seeds. 1 tablespoon fennel seeds. 1 rounded teaspoon fenugreek (aka methi) seeds. 1 2-inch cinnamon stick, broken into ...

1. Wash the crabs thoroughly and remove the gills. Using a large knife, split them down the middle, cracking the legs so gravy can penetrate. 2. Toss the crabs with turmeric powder, cayenne powder ...

While garam masala and curry powder can be found in many home kitchens, you may not know which to use in your next recipe. Here's everything you need to know.

At my parents’ home in Kurunegala, Sri Lanka, as at many others across South Asia, curry leaf trees grow in the backyard, suffusing the air with a slight earthiness. That scent only intensifies ...

Yield: 4 to 6 servings. Total time: 45 minutes. Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups masoor dal (red lentils) 1 teaspoon ground turmeric. 1 teaspoon ground cayenne ...

As any fan of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain knows, food is more than raw ingredients. To understand a bowl of noodles or a perfectly formed dumpling, a foodie must understand the people who make ...

First, there are those cashews, which are not nuts at all but technically fruit; they’re the drupe seeds that extend under the apple of the cashew tree.

When her parents immigrated to Connecticut from Colombo, Sri Lanka, in 1973, they brought with them their fiery curries, coconut sambols and countless rice dishes.

Mary Anne Mohanraj missed a lot of things when she went off to college, but the thing she was most homesick for was her mother’s cooking. When her parents immigrated to Connecticut from Colombo ...