Indian cuisine

See-Pyan, or Burmese chicken curry

November 3, 2010 Food & drink

There are a lot of different types of curry out there, but I tend to stick to the Indian or Pakistani varieties, with maybe the odd Thai green curry every now and again. To me, the Indian sub-continent is the spiritual home of the curry, but that doesn’t mean that other regions don’t make astonishingly [...]

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Sri Lankan Red Beef Curry

June 2, 2010 Food & drink

Most meat-based curries from the sub-continent use lamb, mutton or goat as their core ingredient. Beef isn’t used widely, mainly for religious reasons…the Hindu sacred cow is never destined for the pot. Traveling around India, you quickly become used to the sight of cows wandering around the streets, unflustered by the traffic mayhem around them, [...]

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Saag Murgh, or chicken and spinach curry

February 14, 2010 Food & drink

Saag Murgh is a classic Indian combination of spinach and chicken. A Punjabi favourite, and another superb recipe from Madhur Jaffrey.

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Indian lamb kebabs

July 14, 2009 Food & drink

These skewers of lamb are perfect for the barbecue and make a good alternative to the normal barbecue standards of burnt sausages and undercooked chicken. They’re easy to make, and cook in just a few minutes. It’s better if the lamb is cooked slightly pink. The flavourings here are most definitely Indian, a heady mix [...]

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Bhuna Gosht, or lamb bhuna

June 15, 2009 Food & drink

‘Bhuna‘ is a particular Asian cooking style where a sauce is reduced and reduced until it is so thick that it just clings to the meat, making the meat appear ‘browned’. Dishes cooked in the bhuna style are rich and pungent, the flavour of the spice mix concentrated down by the fierce reduction of the [...]

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Gosht Achar, or lamb curry

May 10, 2009 Food & drink

India and Pakistan are home to some of the world’s best pickles, all types of fruit and vegetables preserved in a fiery mix of spices, citrus juices and oils. The best are little more than sliced chillis with lime, oil, mustard and turmeric. They’ll blow you away. Literally. In Hindi, ‘achar‘ means pickle, and gosht [...]