Lightly cooked cucumber side dish flavored with mustard and fresh lime. Quick and easy vegan-friendly recipe.

A classic Punjabi style winter veggie pickle. This achaar can transform any boring meal into a celebration for the palate.

Mustard oil gives this potato salad a distinctive kick. Get to know this ingredient with the wasabi-like heat.

Yellow split peas cooked along in a pot of rice and mashed with onions, chillies, coconut and mustard oil.An easy to cook recipe at home.

Indian vegan meal: khichdi, potato cauliflower stir-fry, fresh carrots, jackfruit pickle.

Parwal chokha - in which pointed gourd is boiled, mashed and seasoned with chilies, mustard and lime. A Bihari cuisine favorite!

Pointed gourd (parval) bhujiya, cooked in mustard oil with a tempering of fenugreek.

Sattu chokha - roasted gram flour balled up with oil and spices. Protein-rich comfort food from Bihar. No cooking, or artistry needed!

Tender and crisp green beans lightly stewed in a garlic tomato sauce.

Tomato pickle in mustard oil and vinegar works beautifully as a spicy dip for stuffed parathas.

Green papaya side dish that's light, tangy and full of nutrition. Only five ingredients and a breeze to make. [vegan]

Aloo posto – potatoes cooked in poppy seed paste, with mustard oil and five spice tempering. A delicately flavored Bengali vegan dish.

Crispy spicy plantain fry - easy to make side dish for a simple Indian vegetarian meal.

Sattu is a Bihari staple food & these parathas are a healthy breakfast option to go for.

Head of Rohu or Catla Fish is cooked with green cabbage & few spices resulting a lip-smacking curry which can be relished with steam rice.

Yam and mustard chutney that is served with chapatis, sambhar and spinach saag. [Indian vegan meal]

Sweet and sour red pumpkin “bharta” with jaggery and Indian spices

Hari Mirchi Achaar...Indian style spicy fresh green chili pickle with spices and mustard oil

Rui Macher Tel Jhol/ minimal effort and ingredient Bengali Fish curry flavored with nigella seeds & green chilies and cooked in mustard oil

A delicious Pumpkin and prawn curry (Kumro-Chingri Torkari) cooked in mustard oil or veg oil flavored with Indian five spice Panch Phoron.

Kosha Mangsho/ Bengali Dry Fried Mutton...to die for, to kill for!!

This is my take on Shorshe Bata Maach or Bengali Mustard Fish for our non-Bengali friends or non-Indian friends.