Mutton Kolhapuri….Fiery Lamb Curry

This is a fantastic curry, and not for the faint hearted, lovers of mild curries need not apply this is the real McCoy and needs to be cooked long and low without taking your eye off of it for too long, its strong on Chillie hot hot hot. This curry not only tastes the part, it […]

Pao Bhaji… Much better than street food

This is a fantastic little dish regarded by most as street food and as such on the streets of Mumbai one of the foods that feeds a nation everyday. The recipe fearured here is the most simple version and is open very much to your own interpretations in terms of you can add peas, carrots, […]

Shrikand….Yoghurt of the chilled out kind

This is yet another great secret in the world that is sweet things, Indian food does sweet is usually something that is quite rare , especially if it is if it is done well, and this is one of those recipes that if you are prepared to take your time and to follow the recipe, the end result is better […]

Caril de Galhina…. Chicken,Coconut, Coconut and more Coconut

The following dish as the title suggests is heavily based around coconut it is a rich and creamy dish that will knock your taste buds for six. It is a traditional Goan curry although on my many trips there I have never seen it on any restaraunt menu, perhaps I’m not looking in the right places. […]

Khumb Hara Pyaz….Spring Onion & Mushroom Curry

How many ways are there to curry a mushroom?? Come on it’s a serious question, as those who follow me will realise at the moment I am looking very closely at my fungi, or is that Fungal friend, this being the third recipe to use the mushroom, my wife telling me that there is a punnet or […]

Batani Kadala Kari….More than Mushroom & Peas

My inner vegetarian grows in strength almost daily and that inner struggle with the carnivore goes on safe in the knowledge that Vegetarianism will never win fully but my love of the non meat will grow equally beside it.Vegetarian or not my love of the mushroom that humble fungi has always been with me and […]

Does your Dosha Do it!

It is very difficult to write about indian cookery without bumping into Ayurvedic ideas and practices, some may argue it is pure hocus pocus others that it is the word, but all would agree that it is the spirit and the spiritual in all that tastes and does so much good behind the cooking. I do […]