Category: Dinner
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Spicy prawns with courgettes
This is one of my all-time favourite recipes and perfect for when you’ve got a glut of courgettes in the summer. I’ve been making this dish for years and it’s based on a Madhur Jaffrey recipe from one of her very first TV shows. This is not only delicious and fresh-tasting it’s also relatively low…
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Beef rendang with cucumber, onion and lime relish
This rich Indonesian beef rendang is traditionally a dry dish with the sauce clinging to the meat pieces, but I like to make it with a less reduced and runny sauce because it’s just so delicious. There are many recipes for this spicy, coconut flavoured dish because it’s so famous but you can easily make…
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Lamb stew with aubergines and mint
Long before any of the current hipster chefs started promoting the delights of Middle Eastern food, there was Claudia Roden. She was the Cairo-born writer who, many years ago, introduced me and countless others to making wonderfully authentic Turkish, Persian, Lebanese and Moroccan dishes at home. I’ve pimped this one up a little as I…
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