Featured Recipes Archives

Balti Chicken (Shababs)

Shababs Balti Chicken Recipe This is the Chicken Balti recipe as demonstrated to me by Zaf Hussain at Shababs restaurant in the Birmingham Balti Triangle. Please read this article about cooking Balti before attempting the dish. There’s something refreshingly unique...

Dhal Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Made predominately from lentils, this Indian staple dish is comforting, nutritious and appetising. In my version, rather than using a tarka (whole spices tempered in hot oil then poured over the dhal at the end to complete the dish), the oil and spices are added at...

Kalimirch (Black Pepper) Curry Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Kalimirch Black Pepper Curry Black pepper (Hindi: kali mirch) ceases to be the understudy and comes forward to play the lead role in this pungent medium strength curry featuring a creamy sauce balanced with lemon juice and chef’s ‘special herbs and spices’. This curry...

Chilli Cheese Toast Recipe

by Richard Sayce

This quick and easy chilli cheese toast snack is fantastic any time, but is a proper treat after a boozy night out! It’s very versatile: you can use whatever leftovers you have and as usual with my recipes you can add as much chilli as you like. This recipe one...

Phaal Curry Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Phaal Curry Recipe The famous and usually excruciatingly hot phaal is a curry to be handled with extreme caution. There are some hotter curries out there (as always), but my recipe holds back no punches, so if you like the idea of being proverbially slapped in the...

Adrak (Ginger) Curry Recipe

by Richard Sayce

Adrak Ginger Curry Recipe In my opinion the hearty and fiery ginger root (the Hindi word is ‘adrak’) merits a specially dedicated curry of its own. My version is a medium-hot curry featuring an abundance of fresh ginger and is complemented with onions, green pepper,...