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Coq au vin blanc
View recipe: Coq au vin blancI always used to make coq au vin with red wine but I find this white wine version more elegant and it doesn’t overpower the delicate flavour of the chicken. The sauce is so delicious that you could make it separately and add chopped leftover cold chicken just to ring the changes. Serve it with…
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Chestnut and chorizo soup
View recipe: Chestnut and chorizo soupThis is one of those homely and rustic Spanish soups that’s just perfect for a family lunch over the holidays. Make sure you buy an extra bag of chestnuts for your Christmas store cupboard, keep some chorizo in the chiller drawer draw and you’ll be able to whip up a big pan of this in…
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Chennai chicken curry
View recipe: Chennai chicken curryThe star ingredient in this curry is the fenugreek in my Chennai spice mix; the method of cooking onions and then adding ginger, garlic and chilli paste with some thick yoghurt before the other ingredients is the one I picked up as a student from my Asian flatmate’s Mum. Once you master that classic technique,…









