1,158 sue ding recipes

Homemade lavash crackers topped with sesame and poppy seeds, baked crisp and golden. A thin, crunchy flatbread that breaks into rustic shards for serving with butter, dips, or cheese.

Lamb with cashew curry blends ground cashews, dried red chilies, and toasted whole spices into a fragrant masala simmered with yogurt, saffron, and tender lamb cubes. Restaurant-style Indian cooking at home.

Bharwan bhindi, Indian stuffed okra pods packed with toasted coriander, cumin, fennel, garam masala, and ground almonds. Pan-fried in ghee for a spicy, crisp-tender side.

South Indian green prawn curry with a fresh ginger-garlic-scallion paste, coconut cream, mustard seeds, and fennel. Plump prawns simmered until just tender. Serve over rice.

This dish is very, very hot. It may not seem so at first, but the spices have a cumulative effect that builds up over the course of the meal.

Authentic Mangalore pineapple curry with dry-roasted sesame, fenugreek, coconut, and a mustard seed tadka. A sweet, spicy, and tangy South Indian side dish ready in under an hour.

Modern hardtack made with flour, masa harina, wheat germ, and oats for a more nutritious survival bread. A shelf-stable cracker that keeps indefinitely in airtight containers.

Pickled baby corn on the cob in a sweet-sour brine with turmeric, celery seed, and garlic. Refrigerator pickle that turns sunshine yellow and lasts a week.

Sem Pullao with green beans, basmati rice, mustard seeds, cumin, and turmeric cooked in one pot. A fragrant Indian vegetarian side dish ready in 40 minutes.

Reduced-sodium sliced dill pickles canned in a vinegar-sugar brine with celery seed, mustard seed, onion, and fresh dill heads. A USDA-tested low-salt canning recipe.

Chinese cabbage salad with crunchy ramen noodles, toasted almonds, sesame seeds, and sunflower seeds in a warm sesame-rice vinegar dressing. A potluck favorite with serious crunch.

Russian beef borscht is a deep-ruby vegetable soup built on shredded beets, cabbage, carrots, and cubed beef simmered with dill, bay, and tomato paste. A classic Eastern European comfort bowl that improves overnight.

Kashmiri spinach (haak) with asafetida, turmeric, cayenne, and a homemade garam masala of black cumin, cardamom, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon. A deeply spiced, vegan North Indian side dish.

Lamb cashew curry with a homemade masala paste of cashews, chilies, saffron, poppy seeds, and whole spices simmered in ghee and yogurt. A rich, aromatic Indian lamb dish.

Indian eggplant curry with peas and cilantro: a vegan dry-fry baingan masala built on tempered mustard and cumin seeds, turmeric, and cayenne. Soft, almost buttery eggplant served over rice, topped with bright green peas.

Bombay cashews roasted with freshly ground coriander, cumin, hot paprika, cinnamon, and nutmeg. An addictive Indian-spiced snack that keeps for two weeks.