How to cook

It cannot be denied that brown rice is vastly healthier than white rice. Here's a beginner's guide on how to cook and store brown rice.

The most famous of all Indian mushrooms is the mighty morel, but there are many other varieties. Here's how to cook mushrooms.

The secret of cooking raan lies in taking the toughest meat of the lamb and making it tender and succulent. Here are expert tips and raan recipes to cook like a pro.

Are sauteed potatoes even better than chips or just bubble and squeak without the cabbage?I was somewhat puzzled when sauteed potatoes appeared on the list of suggestions for this column. For a start, the highest ...

There are various dishes that you can make using sabudana - the healthy non-cereal carb source, which is extracted from tapioca. A common ingredient during Navratri, you can use it to make khichidi, vadas, kheer ...

Besides the quintessential rajma curry, this bean is also used to prepare an extensive range of dishes including kebab, salad and more. Whatever it is, the first step to make any rajma-based recipe is soaking ...

Save on the store-cupboard basics so you can afford more fresh food. And there really are alternatives to pasta and rice. How does the oven work?Carl Williams, BIMM Conventional ovens work by radiating heat from a ...

A summer holiday favourite perfect for the British spring's combination of scintillating sunshine and sudden sharp showers.It's funny how quick the British are to forget the damp privations of our dreary winters. The first sunny ...

If you can turn out exquisite fried eggs every single time you've got one over on most cooks. What's your secret?I embark upon this column in the full and certain knowledge that many of you ...

Many consider pilaf rice's finest hour. Do you prefer palau, pilau or plov, and do you have a trick for that all-important golden tah-dig?Pilaf is an old, old dish, the complexities of which belie the ...