Authentic Indian Recipes

Spicy Tomato Chutney

This spicy tomato chutney recipe is ideal when you have garden-fresh tomatoes. It's spicy and sweet with ginger, garlic, chili powder, and curry paste.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 👥 32

Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken tikka masala made easy with this delicious recipe. Marinate chicken in yogurt and spices, grill, then simmer together in a tomato cream sauce.

⏱️ 140 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Vegan Sweet Potato Chickpea Curry

This chickpea curry recipe made with sweet potatoes, spinach, tomatoes, and coconut milk uses fragrant Indian spices to make a delicious vegan meal.

⏱️ 30 min 🔥 Medium 👥 6

Naan Bread Margherita Pizza with Prosciutto

This naan bread pizza is topped with green onion, garlic, mozzarella cheese, tomatoes, prosciutto, Parmesan, and fresh basil for a quick, easy meal.

⏱️ 25 min 🔥 Medium 👥 2

Authentic and Easy Shrimp Curry

This is a home-style South Indian shrimp curry recipe from my husband's family. It is simple and quick to make. It contains no coconut so is not sweet, just mostly juicy and as hot as you like it. Serve with basmati rice or an Indian flatbread.

⏱️ 35 min 🔥 Medium 👥 5

Vegetarian Coconut Curry with Tofu

Chock full of veggies and drenched in a sweet and mildly spicy coconut milk-based sauce, this vegetarian curry dish is a comfort food for any fans of healthy eating.

⏱️ 75 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Lamb Shank Vindaloo

Lamb shanks are slow cooked with garam masala, ginger, paprika, cayenne, onions, and garlic for a tasty variation of an Indian-style vindaloo recipe.

⏱️ 740 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Curry Stand Chicken Tikka Masala Sauce

This tikka masala sauce is bright orange and richly flavored with onion, garlic, spices, tomato sauce, and cream, cooked with tender chicken chunks.

⏱️ 80 min 💪 Hard 👥 6

Paneer Tikka Masala

This paneer tikka masala has chunks of paneer cheese cooked in butter with onions and peppers in a creamy, perfectly spicy tomato curry sauce.

⏱️ 60 min 💪 Hard 👥 6

Roasted Vegetable Curry with Pumpkin

This tasty curry dish combines roasted sweet potatoes, beets, and chunks of pumpkin with an amazingly flavorful tomato-based curry sauce--try it over white rice!

⏱️ 80 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Sweet Lamb Curry

This sweet lamb curry recipe is a mild, fragrant mix of lamb, raisins, and apples, and yields a flavorful, slow-cooked curry perfect for fall.

⏱️ 120 min 💪 Hard 👥 6

Dalgona Coffee (Whipped Coffee)

Make your own light and creamy whipped coffee to serve over milk when you can't get to a cafe or coffee shop.

⏱️ 5 min ⚡ Easy 👥 1

Vegetable Curry Couscous

A variety of colorful veggies like red bell peppers, carrots, and leeks make this interesting couscous side dish versatile. Raisins, currants, curry powder, and sliced almonds on top add touches of exotic flavor.

⏱️ 45 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Spinach and Tomato Dal (Indian Lentil Soup)

This red lentil, spinach, and tomato dal (Indian lentil soup) recipe makes a hearty and healthy dish that leaves you satisfied without overfilling you.

⏱️ 110 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Tandoori Chicken

This tandoori chicken is made with an authentic Indian recipe that marinates the chicken overnight in yogurt with the perfect blend of spices.

⏱️ 425 min 💪 Hard 👥 4

Grilled Masala Chicken with Vegetables

Make this Indian-inspired chicken dish on the grill--or in the oven--for a flavorful dinner with minimal cleanup.

⏱️ 50 min 🔥 Medium 👥 4

Thai Shrimp and Clam Curry

This Thai shrimp and clam curry with lime and basil gets a subtle kick from red chile paste; spoon over brown rice for a satisfying dinner.

⏱️ 45 min 🔥 Medium 👥 4

Tandoori Masala Spice Mix

Homemade tandoori masala spice mix, a staple for Indian butter chicken, is easy to make at home with a flavorsome array of 11 different spices.

⏱️ 5 min 🔥 Medium 👥 8

Coconut Curry Pumpkin Soup

This vegan pumpkin soup recipe includes curry powder and coriander and uses coconut oil instead of butter and light coconut milk in place of cream.

⏱️ 60 min 🔥 Medium 👥 6

Peanut Curry with Chicken and Basil

This peanut curry with chicken and basil recipe is a creamy, thick peanut and coconut curry sauce simmered with chicken, vegetables, and Thai basil.

⏱️ 55 min 🔥 Medium 👥 4

Vidalia Onion Straws (Onion Strings)

Thinly sliced sweet onions are soaked in buttermilk, dredged in a spiced flour mixture, and deep-fried to delicious perfection in this recipe for sweet onion straws.

⏱️ 80 min 🔥 Medium 👥 8

Beef Samosas

This samosa recipe makes a spicy ground beef filling with potatoes and peas for homemade samosas, deep-fried until crispy for a savory Indian treat.

⏱️ 120 min 💪 Hard 👥 18

Indian Coconut Chutney

This delicious coconut chutney is made mostly in the food processor and is a great side for Indian cuisine, or even chips.

⏱️ 20 min 🔥 Medium 👥 16

Kulfi

Kulfi is a delicious Indian ice cream dessert flavored with cardamon; this recipe is easy to make with condensed and evaporated milk and whipped topping.

⏱️ 500 min 💪 Hard 👥 24