Category: Meat main courses
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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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Mrs Martin’s carbonara
Spaghetti carbonara is one of those super-quick and easy to make suppers that uses just a few ingredients and tastes sublime. The secret to dishes like this is that the individual ingredients must be of very good quality. Pancetta, good quality spaghetti not supermarket ‘value’ varieties, Parmesan (made of cow’s milk) not cheddar (or any…
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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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