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Healthy Mango Chutney
This recipe uses a whole fresh mango so gives enough for 4 people at least. Peel the mango, remove the stone, chop off the mango flesh and cut into small cubes. Add to a mixing bowl and add the chopped red chilli, white wine vinegar, chopped ginger, curry powder, nigella seeds and fresh coriander (leave…
Read MoreBeetroot Shami Kebabs
This vegetarian shami kebab recipe is an adaptation of one from Meera Sodha‘s excellent recipe book “Fresh India“. I have modified it to avoid the use of any oil and replaced the paneer with quark. This makes the recipe lighter and was a bit of an experiment but I was really pleased with the end results.
Read MoreBusting Some Myths About Cider
The team at Cider is Wine are on a mission to change our perception of cider and curry not being a good match and have put together this piece for Curry Culture on the subject. “Of course there’s no such thing as ‘curry’” This will come as a shock to the many Brits who patronise the 12,000 or so ‘curry restaurants’ that contributed some £5 billion to the UK economy in 2019, and to all those who continue to buy ready-prepared curry dishes in the hundreds of thousands from our supermarkets. For those interested in how this misnomer came about, curry is actually an anglicised form of the Tamil word kaṟi meaning ‘sauce’ or ‘relish for rice’…
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