Made with chickpea flour and packed with vegetables and spices, North India's uniquely version of a savory pancakes is a traditional breakfast or tea snack, but we can't help wanting to serve it up as a vegetarian main course.
Food Network staffers sit down to enjoy a variety of frozen delights from Trader Joe's including Chicken Tikka Masala, Mandarin Orange Chicken and more.
Guy Fieri hits all the marks with these spicy spinach, onion and potato fritters coated in a housemade yogurt sauce at Anita's Kitchen in Bend, Oregon.
A very lively group of competitors go after the $10,000 prize with gusto. In the appetizer round, distaste for a processed food in the basket inspires some creativity and some defiance. In the entree round, chefs try to find success combining the Indian snack food known as far far and the bird known as squab. While one chef appears to have a clearer plan than the other in the final round, whose corn flakes dessert will taste better?
Four talented junior chefs are ready to prove their expertise in the kitchen to judges Marc Murphy, actress Debby Ryan, and Geoffrey Zakarian. In the first round, there's a run on tortillas in the pantry as the young competitors figure out what to do with "poor man's lobster" and a sweet surprise. An Indian tea snack and a lean meat are two of the ingredients in play in the second round, and chocolate and vanilla mingle for dessert!
Hungry plus angry equals hangry! These battles celebrate the foods we crave when "hanger" strikes, and the baskets are filled with super spicy items, including one of the hottest peppers on earth for the first round. An unapologetically hot Indian dish finds its way into the entree basket, and, in the dessert round, some classic spicy candy is part of the puzzle as the last two chefs push hard to impress the judges with their final plates.
On this trip, Guy Fieri's hanging out at real-deal mom-and-pop spots. In Logan, Utah, a family-run Indian joint hooked up to a gas station with Dad dishin' out specialties from his homeland. In Burlington, Vt., a dumpling house born out of a legendary food cart where mother and daughter are serving up authentic flavor, and in Denver, a neighborhood landmark where Mom leads the whole family in cookin' up Caribbean-soul favorites.
For chefs Aaron Sanchez and Roger Mooking, Heat Seekers is a tongue-testing odyssey to discover the most delicious and dangerous spicy food in the country - and figure out why it's so much fun to eat. In each city, they discover the secrets of everything from Mexican to Korean to Indian cuisine then subject themselves to a test of who can handle the heat. What results are either tears of laughter or tears of pain... Usually, it's both.