About Aaj Kya Banau
Last updated 9 November 2026
Aaj Kya Banau (“what should I cook today?”) helps Indian home cooks decide what to make. It lists 4,699 recipes from every part of India and the world, each with its region, main ingredients, an estimate of nutrition per serving and, for 4,699 of them, cooking videos by home cooks and chefs.
How a recipe gets here
Each dish starts from a published recipe by an Indian cook or food site. We record its name, region, meal and main ingredients, link the best cooking videos, and estimate its nutrition. We do not copy other sites’ methods; the videos show the method, credited to their creators.
Veg and non-veg labels
We follow Indian food labelling: a dish with meat, fish, egg or gelatin is non-vegetarian. Egg dishes are marked “contains egg”. When an ingredient is unclear, we label the dish non-vegetarian, because a wrong “veg” label is the worse mistake.
Nutrition numbers
Calories, protein, carbohydrates, fat and fibre are estimates for one typical serving, worked out from the main ingredients. Oil, ghee, sugar and portion size change them, so treat them as a guide for comparing dishes, not as a diet plan.
Videos
Videos are matched to each dish and checked: removed, private, non-embeddable and off-topic videos (songs, vlogs, unrelated dishes) are taken out. You can watch them here through YouTube’s player; the creator keeps the views.
Our last full data review
On 9 November 2026 we reviewed the whole catalogue: we fixed dishes whose ingredients or nutrition belonged to another dish, corrected mistranslated names, re-labelled about 340 dishes that were wrongly marked vegetarian, merged 46 duplicate dishes, removed 2,071 broken or irrelevant videos, and grouped regions, ingredients and tags so that every list on the site is consistent.
Body-type guidance
The Know Your Body quiz follows the traditional Ayurvedic idea of three doshas. It is general information, not a medical test.
Found a mistake?
Tell us at [email protected] with the recipe link, and we will fix it.