New Delhi, April 4 -- Come summer, and one ingredient comes back to take its place under the sun. This along with kalonji (black cumin) and black sesame seeds, can be called the men in black in your pantry, and are easily mistaken for each other, especially if you open the kitchen cabinet in a half-asleep or sleep-deprived state. They are the perfect use case for labelling your bottles. I'm talking about sabja, also called tukmaria or basil seeds.

An ingredient that goes into falooda and Madurai's jigarthanda is now doing its lap of fame due to The Great Indian Social Media Recipe Propagation System.

With all due respect to our ancient sciences, I must make a point about sabja, the claim that it regulates body temperature and the whole ...