Parippu Vada (lentil fritters)

Parippu Vada (lentil fritters)

This is a simple South Indian style recipe by one of our Guest Chefs, Sheba Promod.

Parippu vada is a savoury snack, which can be enjoyed at any time of the day and goes really well with a hot cuppa!  These lentil fritters are crunchy, mildly spicy and somewhat meaty in their texture.  This quick and easy recipe is made from a combination of sweet and spicy flavours.

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Curry Ice Cream to celebrate the Jubilee

Chocolate ice cream

In Celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee a Soho gelateria is offering something even stranger than any of Heston Blumenthal’s creations, coronation chicken ice cream. It’s not something that temps me at all, but creator of this frozen concoction, Chef Jacob Kenedy said he devised the unusual flavour of ice-cream as a ‘light-hearted’ celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. I…

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Eat Curry to lose weight?

Bowl of red lentil curry

If another day of reaching for the salad leaves you feeling glum, there is an apparently much more enjoyable way to shift those unwanted pounds.  Researchers at Canada’s Laval University are alleging that curry can infact make you lose weight as opposed to gaining it. They have discovered that a chemical found in chillies (called…

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Spicy fish and cucumber salad

Spicy fish and cucumber salad

This spicy fish and cucumber salad is a Southeast Asian dish with a contrast of different flavours including sweet, sour, spicy and savory all mixed together.  This salad is made from plain white fish which is used as the base of the recipe and strips of cucumber are thrown in for a sweet and cool…

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