This refreshing cooling dip goes perfectly with spicy shaks and biryanis. Easy to whizz up in a few minutes, all it takes is a few ingredients. Ingredients: 1 500ml pot greek yoghurt½ a cucumber, grated20 seedless black grapes, finely chopped (optional)1 tsp jeeru (cumin), roasted and coarsely groundPinch of nimak (salt), to taste Method: Chuck...Read More

Around the world people have been celebrating the Hindu festival of Holi this week. Holi marks the beginning of spring and huge parties and processions take place with everyone throwing coloured powders and coloured water at each other in an epic paint fight – hence the popular name, a festival of colours. Everyone wears white...Read More

Today is the start of Holi and many people celebrate with bonfires, prayers, popcorn and mithai (sweet desserts) before the main event of throwing coloured powders all over each other tomorrow. Our family traditionally makes Mithi Sev this day and when my Nanima was growing up in Kenya, she would make the vermicelli from scratch;...Read More

Today I’m going to share with you my all-time absolutely favourite shak; Aka Ringra Buteta Nu Shak. Yes it takes a bit of time to prepare, but boy is it delicious and nutty and full of flavour. Just thinking about it makes my mouth water… (even though I’ve literally just had some leftovers…) We generally...Read More