So you know how you have to cater for different palates in your home, this recipe certainly caters for both the meat eater and those that favour chicken. This is my Mutton keema with chicken chunks and peas. I love mutton for its mature flavour and taste. I’m not keen on lamb…so for me this…
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Jhal Bhaja Chicken Spicy Dry Fry Chicken
Jhal bhaja chicken is as the name infers!A hot, spicy dry fried chicken. I love using coarse chopped chicken from my Asian butchers although I used to do it by hand with a cleaver before it became readily available. I love the chicken like this as it cooks so quick! It’s a great way to…
Bottle Gourd With Shrimps And Dill Sholpa Diye Lau Chingri
Shrimps with bottle gourd, lau chingri, is a nostalgic dish for me. Shrimps for me are the best type of prawns that you could put on a plate. Each time and every time hands on my heart. What I call shrimps are these beautiful juicy prawns that add the most spectacular flavour to curry and…
Sprats In One Pot With Tomato And Potatoes
One pot sprats with potatoes and tomato. This is a special dish. One I grew up with. One adored by my siblings and me. It’s one that reminds me of home, as a child and the burst of flavour when it was served onto our plates.It’s one that reminds me of my mum, my dad…
Doi Shorshe Diye Ilish Mach Yogurt And Mustard Fish Curry
Here is another Bengali Fish recipe Ilish Macher Doi Shorshe. Most of Bengalis love a Doi Shorshe recipe. It’s a subtle curry, with a tang from the yogurt and a nod to the mustard oil if you use it for that pungent authentic flavour. Its just as fabulous with any oil you choose! I used…
Chilli Fry Morich Bhaja
Everyone who knows me understands my love for chillies and I mean really hot chilis, the superhot’s like the Carolina repears, Moruga scorpions and all hot pods alike. I love growing my own superhot’s, it’s a passion, a hobby, a thrill and I love making hot sauces, relishes, fermented sauces and using them in curries….
Dudh Diye Macher Jhol Fish Curry Cooked In Milk
This Dudh Diye Macher Jhol or Fish Cooked in Milk is a great fish curry that works with most kinds of fish. It is a quick recipe. The light sauce has a subtle mustardy taste but amazingly there is no mustard in the recipe other than the oil. It’s one that I make often when…
Celeriac And Moong Dal Niramish
Celeriac and moong dal niramish!Not everybody likes celery, particularly if it’s raw. If you don’t like celery, you most likely won’t like celeriac either! Well I certainly don’t fit in that camp! Celeriac is one of those vegetables that is the mother of celery as I call it! I love the smell, the flavour and…
Caravan Chicken
Caravan chicken, a chicken curry using my simple spice kit I take with me everywhere and the usual produce available to everybody in our local supermarkets. Hubby and I spent a week recently off grid in a caravan nestled in the Welsh hills. It’s a beautiful hideaway, far from chaos, Covid and every day mayhem.It’s…
Bottle Gourd peel with potatoes and celeriac.
Bottle guord peeling with potatoes and celeriac. Why peels? My mum used to say that the dishes you make with trimmings and peels always taste better than the most extravagant ingredients.I have always agreed with her. She told me of an incident once during her annual stay with her siblings in India. A poor villager…