There are lots of (very virtuous) reasons to love chickpea flour, AKA gram flour, Bengal gram, and besan flour – to mention just a few, …
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Cured salmon and a kimchi tomato salad: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for no-cook cooking | Food
In sweltering summer, turning on the stove is about as appealing as stepping into a sauna, but (wo)man can’t live on ice-cream alone, so here …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for baked courgettes with lemongrass, plus mushrooms, courgettes and toasted crumbs | Vegetables
If you grow your own courgettes, you have the opportunity to pick them small – barely thicker than your index finger – and eat them …
Aubergine dip, chicken skewers and beans with dill: Yotam Ottolenghi’s Persian recipes | Food
No shopping list delights me more than the one I write when I’m planning to cook Persian food. Aubergines and walnuts, pomegranate seeds and rose …
Fried sardine pitta and baked pomegranate salmon with kisir: Melek Erdal’s Kurdish recipes | Turkish food and drink
Kurdish food is a tapestry, much like Kurdish people. We absorb from and imprint on the spaces we inhabit. It is no coincidence that our …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for cucumber, avocado and basil tabbouleh, and honey panna cotta | Food
It might be jolly useful to have a summer salad up your sleeve that is both light enough for summer but also substantial – the …
Apricot and goat’s cheese, lamb with peach chutney: Yotam Ottolenghi’s stone fruit recipes | Summer food and drink
There’s something particularly special about cooking with stone fruit. Eaten raw, they can sometimes disappoint; catching an apricot or a peach at its absolute best …
One-pan pescatarian: three low-fuss fish recipes from Tom Walton | Fish
There is something truly magical about one-pot cooking – it screams comfort and nourishment, and you always feel like you’re winning when producing flavour so …
Keralan curry and kulfi: Sonal Ved’s Indian mango recipes | Indian food and drink
In Indian kitchens, mangoes are sacred. We wait all year for the ripest fruit, relishing it from seed to peel. You’ll find high praise for …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for pork chops with chilli-plum jam, and plum and almond pie | Fruit
There was no sign of dessert. (I’m going back a bit now.) We looked anxiously at one another, wondering if our hosts had forgotten, or …
Coconut curry and peppered tofu: Riaz Phillips’ vegan Jamaican recipes | Caribbean food and drink
There’s lots I crave about Jamaican food, beyond jerk and curried meat. At cook shops, tucked away in shopping plazas, on highway roadsides and up …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for roast red peppers with chickpeas, and lemon and raspberry squares | Food
The scorching red days of high summer mean plates of roasted scarlet peppers and basil, vermilion salads of tomatoes or watermelon and bowl after bowl …
Roast chicken, a yoghurt dip and crispy fritters: Yotam Ottolenghi’s tomato recipes | Food
The problem with tomatoes, at this time of the year, is that they can make me lazy. They’re just too good as they are: sliced, …
Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for cooking with peaches | Summer food and drink
If you luck out with a peach that is rosy, unblemished and ripe, sink your teeth into it and enjoy its sublime sweetness immediately, without …
Civan Er’s recipes for a Turkish summer spread | Food
Chilled grilled aubergine soup Prep 10 minCook 35 minChill 2 hr+Serves 2 4 big aubergines (about 1kg)3 red romano peppers4 garlic cloves, peeled and crushedJuice …
Berries, meringue cakes and fools: Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for summer desserts | Food
Summer always feels a bit like playtime, which is why summer desserts – essentially an excuse to consume fruit and berries, booze and cream – …
Tamal Ray’s recipes for sesame and za’atar eggs and butter bean crudaiola | Eggs
Cooking may be a pleasure, but sometimes it needs to be quick. These are two of my go-to, low-effort meals. The eggs are what I …
‘Defrost and dump’: slow cooker recipes for the time-poor | Australian food and drink
One of our favourite ways of utilising our precious time is to make a meal fresh and prep a freezer bag of uncooked ingredients at …
Balinese or barbecue? Carl Clarke’s recipes for spicy chicken | Indonesian food and drink
These two dishes are perfect summer meals, whether cooked low and slow on a barbecue or in the oven. The spatchcocked chicken is very simple, …
Nigel Slater’s recipes for apricot cake, and summer fruit frozen yoghurt | Food
Summer puddings are a doddle: ripe peaches torn apart and dropped into glasses of chilled muscat; strawberries, halved and tossed with passionfruit juice; melon sprinkled …