Oven Roasted Spicy Chickpeas – Garam garam chana

At one of my cookery lessons, I was showing my class how to make chick pea curry. The discussion led to all the other recipes people could use boiled peas in and a lot of Read More …

Couscous with Healthy Vegetables

Couscous – the food’s so nice they named it twice. -Dale Whenever I read posts of bloggers from India, I get really envious when they mention the meals they have cooked to take in their Read More …

Heart Shaped Samosa puffs

I am in love with these………… Ready made pastry has made cooking so much easier and creative too.  so for Valentine’s Day, I decided to create heart shaped vegetarian pastries using a very simple Samosa Read More …

Balti Curry

Hurrah for the good old  British curry invention  – the Balti curry As you know, at the moment my passion is my cookery classes.  I am learning so much by teaching adults one evening a Read More …

Bhakhri with carom seeds

Bhakhri is a crispy slightly salty almost biscuit like Indian bread which can be eaten with any curry.  It’s salty and crispy and tastes good hot or cold.   I  have posted a recipe for Read More …

Peas and New Potato curry in tomato sauce (mutter bateta nu shak)

Everyone has a comfort food they like to have when they are unwell.  I had a really bad cold last week and didn’t want to eat anything too spicy so I made this  peas and Read More …

Vegetable Curry stuffed with toasted Spices, Oats, Nuts

My husband’s favourite curry is the Gujarati Undhiyu so this recipe is very similar to the Undhiyu but I have not used as many vegetables as one uses in  Undhiyu. The stuffing used in this Read More …

Tortilla wraps with Quinoa, vegetables and nuts

I have seen a lot of recipes with Quinoa and I was keen to try some recipes with it as it is highly appreciated for its nutritional value;  its protein content is fairly high –though not Read More …