Credits & Sources

The recipes on What I Can Cook With are everyday home recipes. They come from traditional home cooking and our own recipe research, which includes studying how home cooks make a dish, such as in public cooking demonstrations. Every recipe is written in our own words and checked before it goes live.

Read how we choose and check recipes in our Editorial Policy. If you believe a recipe is too close to your own work, please contact us and we will review it.

• USDA FoodData Central — nutrition values per 100 g, from the United States Department of Agriculture.
• Wikipedia — general background on ingredients. Each ingredient page links to the sources used for it.

For official advice on safe food and healthy eating (good food habits) in India, we point our readers to these government resources:

• FSSAI – Food Safety and Standards Authority of India — the national food safety body. Its consumer section has food safety information for everyday buyers.
• Eat Right India — an FSSAI programme with simple tips for safe, healthy and sustainable (planet-friendly) food.
• ICMR – National Institute of Nutrition — India’s nutrition research institute (study centre), which publishes the Indian Food Composition Tables (IFCT 2017).

These are independent government bodies. What I Can Cook With is not linked to them or approved by them; we list them only as trusted places to learn more.

Some images on this site, including the default ingredient group pictures, are made with AI tools. They are illustrations (artwork, not photos) and may not look exactly like the real dish or ingredient.