Aubergine, glorious aubergine!
A recent trip to the beautiful old city of Istanbul has left me mesmerised and deeply touched. This stunning city has much history to offer and the breathtaking hilltop views of the tranquil blue seas is picture perfect in every conceivable way. The city is rife with street traders selling everything from rugs to […]
Bombay Potatoes (Aloo)
Bombay Potatoes, likely to have originated in Southern Indian, is a dish which has been adapted more for the British palette. However, I have found the off-the-shelf, watered down version of ‘Bombay Potatoes’ far from palatable. What I have created here is a more intensely flavoursome dish which uses the Eastern Bengali blend of five […]
Wholesome Indian Rice Pudding (Kheer)
So here it is! The promised Jaggery recipe – a healthy home made recipe made with a pure and unrefined whole sugar, jaggery (a.k.a ‘goor’ or ‘gur’). Unlike sugar though, jaggery comprises longer chains of sucrose which means that it releases energy slowly over a longer period of time and therefore does not induce the […]