Maunika Gowardhan

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Maunika Gowardhan is an Indian chef, food writer and author of Indian Kitchen: Secrets of Indian Home Cooking and Thali: A Joyful Celebration of Indian Home Cooking. Follow her on Instagram @cookinacurry

Recent articles by Maunika Gowardhan

Two bowls of dhal next to a plate of rice and a wooden bowl with chilli and herbs

Tarka dhal

A bowl of chilli paneer fry with a silver spoon on a wooden table

Chilli paneer fry

Rajasthan laal maas

24 Indian curry recipes

A blue rusted board topped with a platter of lamb chops covered in a ginger paste

Meat and poultry

Lamb chop curry (Andhra chintakaya chaap)

A metal pan filled with a bean curry with green herbs on top

Butter bean curry (Gujarati Rangoon na vaal)

A plate topped with chicken thigh curry with white rice on the side

Meat and poultry

Home-style chicken curry (Tariwalla murgh)

A savoury pie with a slice cut out of it

Fish and seafood

Goan prawn and coconut pie

A batch of biscuits cooling on a wire rack

Nankhatai (cardamom biscuits)

Keralan chicken curry in a serving dish

Keralan chicken curry

Ragda pattice with chilli garlic chutney

Chilli garlic chutney

Ragda pattice with chilli garlic chutney

Tamarind chutney

Ragda pattice with chilli garlic chutney

Ragda pattice

Maharashtrian amti dahl

Maharashtrian amti dahl

Creamy Indian Chicken Curry

How to celebrate Diwali

Hariyali fish tikka

Fish and seafood

Hariyali fish tikka