Here's how to make a Navratri Pizza at home from scratch. Happy feasting, fasting!
Valentine's Day 2017 is right round the corner. Here's an intimate 3-course menu for two.
Good quality alcohol and food make for good table-mates. But booze and food mixed together are an even better combination for connoisseurs of fine eating.
Britain is a place of comfort foods, the dishes are mostly non-fuss and the emphasis is always on enhancing the natural flavours - perhaps this is why a lot of their food is so flavourful.
Eggplant can be adapted or mixed with several flavours.
A Hungarian meal always begins with leves (soup). This is usually something relatively light such as gombaleves (mushroom soup) or something with goose liver dumplings.
Navratri fasts give you a chance to detoxify by eating foods that are light on the stomach and can be digested easily. Here are a few dishes that could be made differently with global inspirations, using ingredients typically consumed during Navratras.
These quick and healthy recipes combine fresh ingredients with pantry staples for a complete meal you'll feel great about eating, and even better while rustling up, because you actually beat the clock putting it together.
There are a few dishes that you can easily rustle up at home within 10 minutes. My secret is to always have the refrigerator stocked with some pre-cooked items - perhaps done in the morning or afternoon - so that the actual dinner preparation saves ...
Before spices happened to them, food in Continental Europe was often bland. Spices helped dishes become more complex.
Chef Ashay is a popular culinary consultant and was the Executive Head Chef, at A Ta Maison, Private Members Club, New Delhi. He studied at the Institute of Hotel Management in Goa as well as IHMES Hotel Institute in the Isle of Man, UK, where he also apprenticed with Manx chefs. A Culinary Arts Diploma from The Hammersmith and West London College, in 2007, followed. Austrian Michelin star Chef Herbert Berger chose him to work at No. 1 Lombard Street, London. Ashay has worked with culinary giants like 3 Michelin star and OBE Chef Raymond Blanc, 2 Michelin star Chef Shane Osborne, 2 Michelin star Chef John Campbell, Chef Tom Hempstead, and Chef Gordon Ramsay at the reputed Savoy Grill. After that he joined the renowned British Chef Mark Hix at the Tramshed in Shoreditch, in 2012.