After graduating from Northwestern, Aarti Sequeira started her own cooking show on YouTube and has since become a Food Network mainstay, winning the sixth season of Food Network Star in 2010 and beating out the competition on Chopped All-Stars, Cutthroat Kitchen: Superstar Sabotage and Guy’s Grocery Games. But sharing her love of food with others remains top of mind for Sequeira. Here are two dishes close to Sequeira’s heart: her family's special tandoori chicken and raita recipes. Inspired…

Aarti Sequeira enjoys a flourishing career as a chef and TV personality, but she is also a grounded individual, valuing her family, her faith, and her heritage.

Aarti Sequeira, TV personality and Compassion sponsor, shares what she has been cooking at home and what she thinks God might want to teach us during this time.

Time is limited during the Holidays so Aarti Sequeira has a quick and easy week night chicken dinner to please everyone.

Aarti Sequeira's simple chicken curry recipe is easy to prepare and packed with classic Indian curry flavors thanks to a mix of garam masala, cumin seeds, bay leaves, fresh ginger, chiles, turmeric and paprika.

The humble cauliflower makes such a dramatic entrance when you roast it whole and bathe it in what we call “makhani” (MUKH-a-nee) sauce, a Punjabi name for butter-tomato sauce. This gravy may seem familiar to you if you're a fan of butter chicken, so I'd suggest making a double batch and freezing the extra for those weeks when you know you need a simmer sauce for chicken or vegetables in your back pocket!

I don't know why it is, but I am not a fan of American-style omelets. I love eggs scrambled, coddled, poached, soft and hard boiled . . . but there's something about that thick carpet of egg in omelets that just doesn't sit right with me! Perhaps it's because this is the first omelet I ever had- thin (but not as thin as a crepe-like French omelet) and packed with fresh flavors. It's the kind of thing I whip up at almost any hour of the day (it's really great after you've been out and had one…

Food Network personality Aarti Sequeira’s Fish Tacos are a quick and easy weeknight meal.

I'll never make spinach-artichoke dip without it.