Madhur jaffrey recipes

These incredibly addictive mouth-watering chicken bits are a celebration of spices. Coated in a blend of pepper, turmeric, cayenne pepper, cumin, dried thyme, garlic powder, paprika and salt they simply dance around on your taste buds. In fact, my non-chicken eating, non-spice eating daughter went crazy for them. I was pleasantly surprised. These chicken bits can be served on their own as an appetizer, but I chose to make a meal out of them and serve them over rice. We loved these chicken…

Introduced to Kashmir by the Mughals whose cuisine was influenced by Persian cuisine, Rogan Josh consists of lamb or goat that has been slow-cooked in oil, yogurt and a mix of many different spices until it is fall apart tender. Dehli born cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey is regarded by many as a world authority on Indian food. Famed both for her bestselling Indian cookbooks and respected acting career, Madhur Jaffrey's recipes have inspired me for years — many of them so familiar to me that…

Butter Chicken. Quite easily the single most popular Indian dish of all. Imagine my surprise when I searched and scoured the internet looking for Madhur Jaffrey's Butter Chicken recipe and found only one, with directions that were about as vague as could be. Can someone please explain to me how in the world Madhur Jaffrey doesn't have an online recipe for Butter Chicken, the single most popular Indian dish? So, I messaged my fabulous friend, Deb of Kahakai Kitchen, hoping she had Madhur's…

Bhajias are a spicy Indian snack similar to pakora or potato fritters, and a popular snack food that can be found for sale in street-side stalls, especially in dhabas on highways. The basic recipes consist of chopped onions incorporated into a dough made from gram flour, a variety of spices and sometimes fresh herbs, then fried until crispy and golden brown. This recipe from Madhur Jaffrey is simple, delicious and makes a satisfying appetizer for any Indian-inspired meal. Madhur Jaffrey's…

Excellent dish from The Essential Madhur Jaffrey. The recipes in this book are foolproof and absolutely tasty, with plenty of veggie options. I served the dish with rice and a simple lettuce salad.…

Six months ago our cooking club voted in Madhur Jaffrey and I was very wary. I had never tasted Indian food before, much less cooked it m...

This traditional Indian curry is full of flavour. Madhur Jaffrey's Fenugreek chicken is easy to make & is a great spicy curry for sharing

Biryani is a lavish and celebratory meal of rice, meat, and aromatic spices. Madhur Jaffrey likes to highlight the dish even further by adding something special: saffron. “So what do you do with saffron? You just don’t plunk it in,” she says. “What I do—which I’ve learned to do from the Kashmiris—is roast it very slightly. Then put it in warm milk, and let it stay for three hours or so until the color comes out.” The result? Shining white rice adorned with gorgeous golden hues from the…

Royal chicken cooked in yoghurt by Madhur Jaffrey. This inviting recipe combines warming Indian spices with chicken, almonds and sultanas. Serve with rice.

A crisp, crackly flatbread loaded with creamy cheese and soft egg. The dough for this bread is incredibly sticky. Omani cooks often use paint chipper to spread and work with the dough on the griddle; you can also use a dough scraper.