Category: Side dishes
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Easy Bengali Zucchini Sabzi with Panch Phoron Spice Mix
This zucchini epitomises the best of Indian home-style cooking, simply spiced and freshly made. You will never find this kind of vegetable sabzi on a typical Indian restaurant menu, it’s far too simple and homely. It uses the Bengali five spice mix panch phoron, a mixture of – cumin, fennel, fenugreek, nigella and mustard seeds.…
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Crunchy Chinese Celery Salad with Spicy Chilli Crisp
We don’t celebrate celery enough. How many times have you bought half a bunch of celery because you couldn’t work out to with the rest of the bunch. This salad solves that problem for you: it tastes sensational, uses five large stalks of celery, but it also keeps excellently in the fridge for a few…
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Quick Carrot and Cucumber Pickle Recipe
I love pickles and quick pickles are so good because you can whip them up with very little effort and you know exactly what’s in them. This pickle makes an excellent side to all coconut based curries, it’s great on sandwiches of all kinds and I’ve also used it in Vietnamese Banh Mi style rolls…
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Easy Indian Carrots and Green Peas with Fresh Coriander | Aromatic Vegetarian Side
Peas (almost always frozen) were a staple vegetable when I was growing. I’m still partial to peas as a vegetable and I always have a packet of frozen peas in the freezer, though I don’t dish them up for dinner quite as much as my mum used to. I particularly love peas and rice as…
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Bill Granger’s Sweetcorn Fritters with Salsa
When I was a kid, my mum used to make corn fritters for Sunday supper. If there was any lamb left over from the lamb roast on Saturday night, she would make lamb fritters as well, but the corn fritters were always my favourite. I don’t think she ever used fresh corn; they were always…
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Pomegranate Salsa: Perfect Side for Indian, Mexican, or Middle-Eastern Meals
It’s pomegranate season and pomegranates are something you can’t have too much of in your life. One year I’m going to take a crack at making my own pomegranate molasses but in the meantime I just use them as much as possible of the while the good times last. This pomegranate salsa is really sensational…
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Easy Beetroot Relish with Coconut Sugar and Oil
I had a number of different recipes that I wanted to post (creating a jumble of possibilities) but decided not to post any of them, instead, making do with this quick beetroot relish. It’s the end of summer and the time of year when I start thinking about using the surfeit of summer produce to…
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Delhi Style Sweet and Sour Pumpkin Recipe by Madhur Jaffrey
Pumpkin is one one of my favorite vegetables but a lot of Indians I know seem to loathe it – probably because during monsoon season, it is one of the few vegetables available and they get completely sick of it by the time they reach adulthood. I survived a childhood pumpkin glut when my Dad…
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Greek Briami Recipe: Delicious Vegan Casserole
I made this briami last week while I was up the coast for a wet and wild week away. Despite the rain, we still managed to have a great holiday catching up with family and friends. We enjoyed a few sunny patches and our last full day was miraculously sunny (though too cold for swimming)…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 