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Delayed Saffron Summer opening announced
Reigate restaurant showcase for Indian haute cuisine Saffron Summer, a sister restaurant to the award-winning eponymous Indian fine dining restaurant in Chessington, is to open in Reigate in Surrey on Tuesday 14th July. The restaurant which occupies the site of the former Clove restaurant at 15 Church Street in Reigate, had originally been due to open…
Read MoreShababs Balti Restaurant Birmingham
Shabas Balti Restaurant in Birmingham’s Balti triangle is opening this weekend and here’s the steps they’ve take to make sure their clients are safe when they visit.
Read MoreNaunits Gujarati Street Eats
It’s always great when you discover a new source of street food and we were lucky enough to come across Naunit’s Gujarati Street Eats this weekend on a visit to Bury Market. Specialising in a range of traditional vegetarian Gujarati snack foods I tried their Channa Chaat special which came served on top of a…
Read MoreBalti Recipe (a real one)
This Balti recipe comes from chef Zaf at Shababs in the Balti Triangle in Birmingham so its as real as a Balti recipe can get.
Read MoreAjwain (Carom)
Ajwain, also known as carom, ajowan, omam, omum, ajvain or Bishop’s weed (depending on where in the world we’re talking) is a spice belonging to the Umbelliferae (or Apiaceae) family, some of whose other members are cumin, dill and caraway. The ajwain plant’s shrubs appear feather-like, and the plant itself grows very quickly, reaching up…
Read MoreSri Lankan Chicken Curry
A tasty and medium spicy tamarind chicken curry recipe originating from Sri Lanka.
So we wanted to try a good tamarind chicken based recipe and a hunt online brought us to this Sri Lankan Tamarind Chicken recipe on the feed feed website from Anjana Devasahayam.
Read MoreChicken Madras BIR Style
Our guest chef recipe today is from Shah Malek who is the chef director of Rivaaz Lymington and Thali Ho Indian Kitchen.
He describes this dish as “a classic and delicious Indian restaurant curry. The madras in my opinion is the most underrated curry on the menu, however, it’s full of flavour and is always my personal “go to” comfort curry. It’s packed with flavour and that slight citrus burst from the lemon juice just finishes it off beautifully. “
Read MoreSupport your local Curry Restaurant
As lockdown eases and the date for restaurants re-opening approaches, now is the time for us all to step up and support our local curry restaurants. They will be taking staff off furlough so their costs will be going up and this is on top of months of low or zero income, so they’re bound…
Read MoreBIR Style Chicken Tikka Vindaloo
British Indian Restaurant (BIR) style curries have a large and enthusiastic following across the UK as curry lovers aim to reproduce their favourite restaurant dishes at home.
This is a great style of curry cookery and you can get some great results, but you usually need some preparation before hand to make some of the ingredients such as curry base sauce.
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