Here’s a delicious recipe for Potatoes cooked with Okra in a flavorful base of spices, garlic, and onions.
Category Archives: Asia
Over the past 40 years, I have travelled the world and experienced different cuisines that I have tried to recreate at home. This meant talking to chefs/cooks in their kitchens to get them to explain how they prepared their dishes. At home, I experimented to try to recreate their dishes. One lesson I learned very quickly was that getting hold of the right ingredients was key. This meant finding and exploring specialist grocery shops around west London, where I live. For most spices, I travel to Southall and buy in bulk. For Chinese, Malaysian, Japanese, Korean and Philippine ingredients, I […]
Bumburet chilli chicken
One of Baghdad’s best dishes is Masgouf (مسقوف), grilled fish spiced with salt, pepper and tamarind, then placed in a metal grill and barbecued in front of an open flame on the pavement. Served with rice, cooked with tomato paste, or prepared with saffron, salad, and pickles, it is a delight. The fish is cooked near the coals of the fire altar, a common feature shared by all Masgûf restaurants. The said “altar” typically consists of a big open-air area centred by a raised, podium-like sandbox that is either round, octagonal or sometimes rectangular and in the middle of which […]
