Brisket is marinated Goan style, then seared and slow cooked for hours with onions and chillies, once cooked its stored overnight in the fridge…. Then skimmed for excess fat and oven roasted with onions and potatoes. The brisket just falls apart and the gravy is delicious. Perfect to serve as a main or even in …
Indian Short Ribs
Beef short ribs are marinated with salt, ginger and garlic paste, mustard oil, spices, green chilli and simply cooked on a nice hot BBQ. This cut of meat was introduced to us by a good friend Pamela Vasandani so many years ago. I remember eating it for the first time, fascinated how thinly the meat …
Blackcurrant & Pistachio Ice Cream
If you don’t have an ice cream machine, go out and get one! These little miraculous machines can make small quantities of delicious creamy ice cream and you can take a basic vanilla ice cream and turn into pretty much anything. With a slew of Blackcurrants in my backyard, I decided to enhance this ice …
Blackcurrant Mojito
Inspired by a great blackcurrant syrup I made together with Mint, I’m going to be treating my friends to this great Blackcurrant Mojito! Cheers to a great summer – well a strange summer. With COVID-19 all around, we are gathering in small groups. But life is always a reason to celebrate and I love to …
Blackcurrant Syrup
My obsession with Blackcurrants is an old one. You can check out the Jam recipe hereAlso check out my Blackurrant & Pistachio Cookies here Blackcurrants are one of the most delicious berries I’ve ever tasted. Every year I make and bottle jam and this is enjoyed year round. This year because of the cold spring …
Sev Puri Cones
Your local chaatwalla bhaiya ji can move over. Sev Puri dough is wrapped onto cones and fried till crispy and then stuffed with a chatpata Potato filling, with Chutney and topped with crispy Sev. If you’re familiar with Indian street food – Sev Puri is a crispy flour disk, topped with a spicy potato mixture …
Chicken Kothu Roti
Kothu roti is literally one of my new favorites! I ordered it last year from a take away restaurant as I had heard one of my friends refer to this dish often and fell instantly in love. Through my research and development with this recipe, I learned that although this is a very easy dish …
Spicy Sri Lankan Chicken Curry
This Sri Lankan curry is spicy and intense and is perfect used on it’s own but I also like to use it in a Kothu roti. In this recipe, chicken is sautéed with onions chilies, curry leaves, ginger & garlic and spices and submerged in pureed tomato. I’ve traveled to the tip of India to …
Godamba Roti
These paper thin Sri Lankan flatbreads are made with white flour. It gets it’s elasticity from it’s soaking in oil. Once soaked, the roti is stretched by either flipping, stretching or stacking them one on top of the other and rolling. Follow the video to learn the tips and tricks to make this in your …
Mango Margarita with a Tajin spice rim
Summer is here! I repeat! Summer is here and Mango is in season. Time to sweeten up the old classic Margarita with some golden yellow pulp – but that’s not all, this will be served with a Tajin rim. If you’re not sure what Tajin is it’s a Mexican spice blend that you can use …