Make Ripe Mango Patishapta Without Fuss
Adding ripe mango to the familiar patishapta makes an easy new dessert for the mango season.
Adding ripe mango to the familiar patishapta makes an easy new dessert for the mango season.
Rosti, Switzerland's crisp-edged potato pancake, can be made at home quickly with a handful of ingredients.
Ripe mango malai kulfi, combining the natural sweetness of mango with a thick, creamy malai, is easy to make at home with a few ingredients.
CookingA home recipe for ripe mango sandesh, published in July 2026 at the height of the mango season, cooks blended mango in ghee with sugar, milk powder and mawa until the mixture thickens and can be shaped.
Crisp samosas with a spicy shrimp filling make a change from the usual afternoon snack.
Juicy ripe mangoes still in the market at the end of summer can be turned into soft, fragrant poa pitha at home.
VegetablesKoshari, Egypt's national dish of rice, lentils, pasta, chickpeas and crispy onions under a tangy tomato sauce, can be made at home with simple ingredients; UNESCO added it to its intangible heritage list in December 2025.
CropsHilsa rubbed by hand with onion, turmeric, chilli, crushed green chillies and mustard oil, then braised covered in a little water, makes hand-mixed hilsa bhuna in 7 to 10 minutes, a recipe published in the monsoon hilsa season of July 2026.
CookingOn 4 July 2026, at the height of the jackfruit season, Jagonews24 published a simple recipe for jackfruit payesh, a rice and milk pudding sweetened and scented with chopped ripe jackfruit, cardamom and cinnamon.
CookingFeijoada, a slow-cooked stew of beans, meat and sausage, is a popular dish of the West African island nation of Cape Verde. Here is the recipe Jagonews24 published in July 2026.
Small-fish chorchori in mustard oil is a nutritious, quick home-style dish to eat with hot rice at lunch.
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CookingCubed pineapple and cucumber tossed in lemon juice, black salt, kasundi and green chilli make a sweet, sour and hot salad. Jagonews24 published the recipe in late June 2026, in the pineapple season.