‘Indian food touches your soul before it touches your taste buds’ This was another Sunday lunch special. It is a deeply spiced dish with a luscious and luxurious gravy to be scooped up with hot buttered roti. I used vegan mince here, it works well with beyond meat versus soya for this as it holds …
Seyal Maani is a warming dish, with heating, healing spices, including turmeric, garlic, chilis and tomatoes. It takes around 10 minutes to cook, and so can be made on a day where you are craving such warmth. My grandma used to make this for me when I popped in for a surprise visit and needed warming …
‘Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.’ I love discovering new ingredients in the farmers market. This year I found baby corn. Baby corn is actually the early picked maize. At this point it is softer and has less starch and sugar. I bought little ears …
‘Whenever the brain and heart fight, it’s always the liver that suffers’ The liver deserves some glory. At more than 3lbs, the liver is the size of a football and the human body’s second largest organ, behind the skin. It holds up to 13% of the bodies blood supply and is a star player in …
‘…smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose…’ This is a beautiful, tasty, fragrant recipe. It’s quick to put together and all in all takes 5 minutes prep and 10 to cook. You are really adding a lot of depth of flavor here through …
Panipuri a type of snack that originated in the Indian subcontinent. It consists of a round, hollow puri (a deep-fried crisp crepe made of chickpea flour), filled with a mixture of flavored water, chutney, potato, onion and/or chickpeas. I decided to make these for my dinner party and to create a quick and easy version. I bought …
‘Indian food touches your soul before it touches your taste buds’ This is one of my grandmother’s signature dishes, Indian Kofta Curry, the Indian version of meatballs and sauce as Mr B likes to say. I love the fragrance that comes from the layers of spicing, in both the kofta’s and the curry. My grandma …
‘I close my eyes and I want to understand where I am, cooking is about emotion, it’s about culture, it’s about love, it’s about memory’ – Massimo Bottura This is a comforting and hearty soup with a soulful Indian twist. I came up with the recipe by combing two family recipes, my uncle Joe’s carrot …
‘Good food is wise medicine’ Having indulged over the holidays, soup is back on the menu for January to get some much-needed nutrient density in and give my digestive system a break. The challenge to myself is to make some interesting soups with an Indian kick. Inspired by my grandma’s food with all the embedded …
‘When diet is wrong, medicine is of no use, when diet is correct, medicine is of no need’. Ayurvedic proverb Here is another recipe for those who are interested in learning about some new vegetables with powerful healing properties. I promised my classmates in Ayurvedic School that I would post a few of these to …
