Darina Allen: Three Indian street food recipes to try at home

Pilgrims come from far and wide, some over 700km, to worship in this holy place, to give thanks to the Narmada for their life, or to scatter ashes of loved ones in the sacred river

Darina Allen: "Tourists are often scared to eat street food but that’s where one gets the real taste of a country."

Back from India, we fortunately managed to miss a lot of that dreadful weather. We stayed at our beloved Ahilya Fort, overlooking the Narmada River in the small rural town of Maheshwar in Madhya Pradesh.

It’s right out in the country, almost two and a half hours by car from Indore. Our bedroom overlooked the ghats on the river’s edge where there is constant activity from pre-dawn to dusk and beyond.