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Pakistani Food Archive
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Lahore Chicken Curry
Posted on June 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweetNow we’re talking! This is a delicious curry from Pakistan. Characteristically of the country’s food, it’s spicy! It has a peppery flavour with a nutty aftertaste. It has a definite spice, but not overpoweringly so. It’s a really special curry and one that I’ve made time and again. I especially love eating it with a few roti or chapati breads, but it works equally well with a little bit of rice.
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Balti Lamb Phal
Posted on July 5, 2009 | 2 CommentsTweetThis curry can be summed up in three words. Oh. My. God. Those three words have a dual meaning too. Oh my god: this recipe never ends, and Oh my god: this is one of the spiciest thing I’ve ever eaten. I undertook this epic recipe mainly because I wanted something extraordinary for dinner tonight. I got what I wanted. The dish is absolutely amazing – a pungent, complex and colourful dish that delivers a mighty punch, absolutely brimming over with heat and flavour. It’s not for the feint hearted but it’s one of the best curries I’ve cooked in a long time. I think this dish often gets a bad rap as it’s often eaten in restaurants by noisy lager louts at 2am trying to impress their mates. The dish itself shouldn’t be written off as a novelty. It’s got a kick, but it’s got so much more going for it too!
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Saffron Rice
Posted on May 20, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Saffron rice will fancify any curry if you want to dress it up a little. I often serve it at dinner parties to add a little difference from plain boiled rice. The saffron not only adds its vibrant yellow colour but also a distinctive taste too, hard to describe – but very pleasant. I sometimes add some dried sultanas at the rice stage if the curry I’m serving is particularly peppery or spicy. This adds a little sweetness to counteract the savoury.
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Curried Lamb Shanks in Yoghurt
Posted on April 4, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Here’s a recipe for a delicious lamb shank curry. It takes it’s paste from a balti recipe I had, but uses a few different ingredients to give a rich soupy gravy that is just delicious. Lamb shanks are a great cut of meat. They’re an excellent way to ensure I don’t eat too much. It is a mental hurdle for me to physically grab two huge bones of meat and put it on my plate. It’s as close to diet food as I’ll ever get.
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Fish with Spicy Lentil Dal
Posted on January 20, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Who can fail to like dal!? It’s one of those simple foods that just keeps on giving. It’s perfect as a sauce, like in this dish with flaky white fish fillets. A lovely earthy spicy finish to the succulent fish. Very refreshing and pretty healthy too!
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Pakistani Goat Curry
Posted on July 9, 2008 | 8 CommentsTweet I’ve eaten goat a few times over the years, but never cooked it. So, when I saw how cheap it was in the local butchers I just had to snap some up. I have a cold at the minute so settled on a recipe which would give me plenty of spice in the hope it will sort me out. This curry has all the heat you’d expect from Pakistani food but the spice appears to come more from the black peppercorns than the chilli. It’s an unusual and rather delicious flavour. As for the goat, so long as you cook it for long enough it’s tender as can be. It’s pretty similar to lamb albeit a bit bonier. If the thought of eating goat fills you with horror then try this recipe using the equivalent weight of lamb shanks instead.
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Spice up your week.
Posted on July 3, 2007 | No CommentsTweet I’m all for having an entire week of curries. An all out festival of spice. If you love a bit of curry then maybe you should try my 1 week curry detox. It’s guaranteed to shift some dead weight, most likely down the toilet. It’s actually neither a diet, nor a detox but more seven of my favourite curries so far. Go on!
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