One of the ‘Top 10’ questions relating to food, is ‘how to cook rice’, and it is one of the culinary questions that I am regularly asked to explain. Although we explain how to cook rice on our cookery workshop, it is still a subject worthy of further clarification. As someone of North Indian heritage, […]
You don’t need a lot of equipment for indian cookery, but here are our top cooking utensils that are essential for cooking Indian food at home. A mincing plate – A mincing plate is a stainless steel plate that works like a grater, which allows ingredients to be completely minced down. A mincing plate that […]
How to make yoghurt An overriding memory of my teenage years is the late-night ritual of making dahi, which is the Punjabi and Hindi (Indian languages), word for yoghurt, and pronounced ‘day’. It’s a very simple and straightforward process, and requires no special equipment at all, so here’s how to make yoghurt… All that was […]
How to make ghee I was taught how to make ghee, as a young girl, by my mother. When it was time to make ghee, my mother would send me to the local shop to collect the case of New Zealand Anchor butter that she had ordered. I’m sure that the staff at the shop […]
Punjab is known as ‘The bread basket of India’ due to the vast amount of crops grown in this rural area, which provides 80% of India’s produce. As the master region of breads, Roti (also known as chapatti) is the daily bread that accompanies each meal. Roti is an unleavened flatbread from Punjab India, and […]
Indian dairy-free swaps: dairy-free alternatives for commonly used dairy ingredients in Indian cookery There are two types of reactions your body can have to food groups: allergies and intolerance’s. They are both very different reactions all together. An allergy is an immune response, and an intolerance is when a person’s body doesn’t produce the enzyme […]