Recipes
Main Dishes
Curries, biryanis and other substantial dishes for the centre of the table.
Chicken and Lemon Biriyani
This Chicken and Lemon Biriyani recipe comes to you courtesy of Opies and is the perfect family meal for 4.
Not too spicy but still with plenty of interesting flavours we love a biryani and this version adds a nice lemony twist that you can very depending on your own personal tastes.
Pondicherry Duck
This fine dining duck recipe comes courtesy of guest chef Awanish Roy who is the Executive Head Chef of Saffron Summer.
An Indian “haute cuisine” restaurant, this recipe is their interpretation of a very popular duck dish from Pondicherry, an erstwhile French Colony in India
Balti 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.
Sri 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.
Chicken 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. “
BIR 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.
Railway Lamb Curry
Railway lamb curry comes from curries served on the railways in India to First Class passengers, generally British, who liked the idea and taste of curry but couldn’t take the heat.
So this a relatively mild curry that contains potatoes as well as lamb making in not unlike a traditional British lamb stew with an Indian twist.
Goan Fish Curry
This delicious Goan fish curry recipe comes to us courtesy of guest chef Anjula Devi and is taken from her recipe book Spice for Life.
Anjula explains “this is one of the best fish curries which my Dad taught me to cook. It requires raw green mango which most Indian greengrocers sell.”
Nawabi Chicken Korma
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 “The original Chicken Korma. This is the dish that has been adapted to make the Korma that is served in so many of the Indian restaurants up and down the country. It’s delicious with any breads or rice and is perfect for kids too!”
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