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Indian food. The way it’s supposed to be…home made & delicious.

Indian Cookery School

Learn to cook authentic Indian food in our kitchen, for yours.

Indian Cookery School

We teach how to cook Indian food at our Birmingham & Manchester cookery schools.

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Fish Pollichatu and Cho Cho Rice. An iconic Kerala

Fish Pollichatu and Cho Cho Rice. An iconic Keralan steamed fish dish paired with a completely made up rice dish. That's the beautiful thing about food - you can make it yours and I encourage my SHIKSHAK students to do exactly that 🧡. I grew up eating "Cho Cho" and thought it was a classic Indian dish. Turns out Mum completely made it up, named it and it became part of her cookery repertoire. I loved passing it on to my students during our live class last week. It has South Indian flavours and so paired amazingly well with the melt in mouth Keralan Pollichatu. The fish was steamed in parcels sandwiched in a fresh onion/ginger/tomato/chilli & curry leaf paste 🤩. Did you grow up eating anything that was unique to your family kitchen?!

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Happy Holi! Sadly the celebrations are on a halt t

Happy Holi! Sadly the celebrations are on a halt this year so I've turned to the making and eating of Papdi Chaat which, in my opinion, is Holi on a plate! If you want to know how to make some lip smacking Indian Street food, THIS is such a great dish. We start with the papdis which are flakey pastry thins (I like to make extra - they make excellent chai snacks). We then layer with potatoes & chickpeas. Sweet, spicy & cooling chutneys go on next. Finally, we finish with pomegranate, coriander & sev potato crunchy noodles. Oh and a sprinkle of chaat masala 🤩. Sound good?! If do, you can find the recipe in this month's issue of @tescofood OR check it out on their website #linkinbio. For SHIKSHAK members, you can enjoy a detailed step by step recipe video in our recipe library 😀👨‍🍳👩🏾‍🍳

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I've spent most of the week infront of the 💻thi

I've spent most of the week infront of the 💻this week (admin is a 🐝) and so recipe testing in the kitchen yesterday felt like a bit of a treat. Aloo Dum and Luchis is what I made and it filled the hole in my soul 🧡. If you have never heard of this dish let me enlighten you! Aloo Dum is a spicy, flavour packed potato curry from Kolkata that is mopped up with Luchis - deep fried puffed breads which are flaky, soft and crisp - all at the same time. We are talking lick your plate clean, comfort food heaven 😍. I will be teaching how to make this dreamy combo at next Friday's SHIKSHAK live cookery class. If you would like to join the class, but are not a SHIKSHAK member - do not worry- you can now buy a place and join us via Zoom! More info and booking link in bio.

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A massive smile for 2 reasons. Firstly - it looks

A massive smile for 2 reasons. Firstly - it looks like our in person cookery classes will be resuming very soon!🤞🏽🤞🏽For those with cookery class credits and vouchers, expect an email from me shortly. You get priority booking. If you don't have a credit, sign up to the newsletter (link in bio) to get an update when the new calendar goes up. Secondly - I have two SHIKSHAK recipe video shoots scheduled in this week.
Both reasons result with me ending up in my happy place...in the kitchen & teaching 👩🏽‍🍳🌶💻🍛
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Still thinking about the Goan Fish Coconut Curry w

Still thinking about the Goan Fish Coconut Curry we cooked during last Friday's cookery class over on SHIKSHAK.co.uk 🤩. One of my students enjoyed it so much, she made it the following evening for dinner too! I love Goan flavours..the tamarind and coconut work so well together in this dish. FUN FACT: you may know that Goa is an ex Portuguese colony but did you know it was the Portuguese who brought the chilli to India from South America?? 🌶🌶🌶. Save this post & feel free to drop that in when conversation is running dry at your next social zoom date!

Kichadi = a rice & lentil dish designed to hug you

Kichadi = a rice & lentil dish designed to hug your stomach, making it perfect for snow day 🌨. I like to serve mine with crispy aubergine, yoghurt, pickle & poppadoms 😍. It's made in 10 minutes so we're talking guilt free fast food. I've been creating a lot more recipe videos for SHIKSHAK centred around teaching speedy Indian cookery. Cooking Indian food is not supposed to a laborious task...you can easily make a gorgeous full Indian meal in less than 30 minutes! If you want to know more, check out my Indian cookery platform - SHIKSHAK (link in bio). I've also got a special V Day discount code running for 20% off any gift voucher or subscription for the spice lover in your life 💝. Use LOVESPICE20 in the checkout. 🌶🎁 > 🍫🎁. Just sayin. Expires 16th Feb.
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So much fun teaching my Keema Pau recipe last nigh

So much fun teaching my Keema Pau recipe last night! Less fun having a WiFi outage just before I went live - but thankfully the 4g prevailed 😅. Thanks for joining my lovely SHIKSHAK members - we are cooking our way through lockdown together 💪👨‍🍳👩🏽‍🍳🍛.

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A huge thank you to everyone who joined me for las

A huge thank you to everyone who joined me for last night's special lockdown LIVE Channa Masala cookery class - we had an international crowd! If you want to continue joining monthly live classes & want to access to more of my recipes, head on over to www.shikshak.co.uk. My code LOCKDOWN25OFF expires tonight at midnight. Use it in the checkout for 25% off any subscription plan or gift voucher! 👩‍🍳👨🏼‍🍳🌶🍛. Let's cook & get through lockdown together 💪

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