A Simple Breyani
The only authentic thing about this recipe is that the rice and meat is cooked together, but it is much simpler than a real breyani, …
Dinka's Cookbook
Tried and Tested Recipes
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Crustless Mixed Vegetable Quiche
Use almost any vegetables of your choice, just ensuring that you have the total amount of vegetables specified in the recipe; green beans are very good as are peas, also broccoli. …
Lamb and Tomato Koftas
This is an excellent recipe for informal entertaining, and can also be served as cocktail finger food – in which case use whole cocktail tomatoes and only 2 meatballs per skewer. …
Sesame Chicken Fingers
This is wonderful finger food, but also makes an excellent light meal served with an Asian vegetable stir fry or a couple of salads and noodles or rice. …
Luxury Naan Breads
These are magic with any curry, and are actually pretty good with almost anything. …
Budget Naan Breads
These are quite acceptable and very good with a curry, but for a real treat (unfortunately a fairly unhealthy one) try the Luxury Naan Breads. …
Thai Green Curry Chicken Salad
This dish has a fantastic taste, but, unfortunately doesn’t look as good as one would like it to – actually, to be honest, it is, more or less, the colour of green sludge. …
Moroccan Lamb Kebabs with Aioli
Warm and spicy, a taste of North Africa. Sautéed Potatoes with Prunes and Apples and a salad go very well with these kebabs. …
Watercress Sauce
This sauce can only be made a couple of hours ahead of using, and is fabulous served with the twice-baked carrot and cardamom soufflés – just zig-zag a spoonful of the sauce onto the warmed plates, and plop the soufflé on top and serve. …
Pesto Vegetable Coleslaw
The dressing of this salad poured over just broccoli makes a pretty good salad as well. In fact I prefer it, because I’m not a lover of raw cabbage. …
Coleslaw with Tahini Dressing
An unusual coleslaw, and also an excellent sambal for any kind of curry. …
Layered Salad
There are many variations on this theme of a layered salad, which is not tossed with its dressing, but I’ve found that this one is the most popular. …
Chocolate-Yoghurt Cake
This cake is so tasty that family members will go to war for the sake of it. Mouth-wateringly sumptuous. To die for. …
