Quick and simple. This is unlikely to be the best chowder you've ever eaten, but it's a simple, reliable and good-tasting soup. Takes less than 30mins.

This recipe suggests starting the dish on the hob then putting in the oven. My oven is on the blink so I just left it on the hob, topping up with water as necessary, until the pota...

When the spices were frying off, the kitchen smelt fantastic. When I first started eating the soup I was a bit disappointed as it wasn't that strongly flavoured, but as it got a bi...

Quick and tasty - pasta with a sauce of yogurt, mint, lemon zest, peas. A good storecupboard staple.

Potatoes marinated in seasoned yogurt, then fried off until the yogurt makes a nice crust. The flavour of the seasoned yogurt is delicious. I actually ate this with some yogurt on...

Dryish potato curry with a tomato sauce. Simple to make (although the recipe told you to make a spice mix and then didn't tell you when to add it to the rest of the recipe...). It...

Good, quick basic rasam recipe. When it says 'a lemon-sized piece of tamarind pulp'... think small lemons!

Tasty panir recipe. But I would add the peas from frozen and closer to the end. Not very authentically Indian, but personal preference.

Quick and tasty.

Yum! only four ingredients, and very very tasty.