almond, lettuce and fig salad
A fig salad with some subtle spice from the chaat masala, and flavour and texture from almonds. An amazing, yet simple salad, anjeer ki salat could become one of your favourites, just as it was for my grandmother.
mild
Recipes that have few, if any, spices.
butter chicken
This is the original Mughal butter chicken. Murgh makhani is not a curry, like restaurants serve, but is pieces of grilled or baked chicken coated in a sauce.
chicken korma – lucknavi style
This chicken korma, or murgh kurma is the definitive Mughal recipe - a mildly spiced, delicate and elegant dish.
roasted cauliflower
Phulkopir roast is a Bengali family recipe for roasted cauliflower and on high rotation in my Grandmother's kitchen. It is of those simple vegetarian dishes that features the main ingredient.
vegetable korma
Vegetable korma is aromatic, flavourful vegetarian dish from the kitchens of the Mughal emperor Akbar. This dish, shahi navratan korma, is an exemplar of Mughlai cuisine.