The recipes pay homage to her royal Mughlai ancestry and follow the route of the Darjeeling Express train from the busy streets of Bengal, through Calcutta, where she grew up, and along the foothills of the Himalayas to Hyderabad. There are Feasts For Friends for when you want to show off a little and Celebratory Feasts to feed a crowd.

From the star of Chef’s Table, Ammu honors Asma Khan’s family and her mother in particular, with recipes and personal recollections of food from her childhood. Apart from the fact the first time you discover that they have an accent that is different from you, their food tastes tend to be different. Perfect for: Anyone with an interest in authentic Indian food, home cooks looking to shake up their midweek meal repertoires, dinner party enthusiasts, and fans of food memoirs and food writing.I chose the Indo-Chinese Chilli Chicken, which was the perfect one-dish dinner for a rainy evening in, with easy-to-source ingredients and a simple process.

An all-women team of housewives runs the kitchen at Darjeeling Express, which has been featured in Time Out, Harper’s Bazaar, the Guardian, and numerous others.You have this with rice, with roti, I've even suggested leftover keema being made into patty, put it in a puff pastry and bake it. I could not resist trying the saag ka raita – a spicy spinach and yoghurt dip which is so versatile and colourful. To understand all of that, you can read those articles (perhaps start with this particularly illuminating one authored by Anna Sulan Masing).

There is a page or two at the beginning of each chapter and a short paragraph or two at the beginning of each recipe. Asma started a supper club from her home in 2012, and since then she has been revolutionising the UK food scene launching a pop-up restaurant in Soho in 2015 and the acclaimed eatery, Darjeeling Express, in 2017. Ammu’ really shows you how you can really be someone incredible by cooking,” says Khan, of her latest work. In India, everyone thinks this is our native food and it doesn't help right now because it becomes very political. He finds it spicy, so I've had to adapt, and I think it's great because that chapter allows people to introduce Indian food to children, to people who've not had a lot of Indian food.Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you. Asma Khan: It was very hard to criticize Ammu because she was just so kind, it was very hard for people to criticize what she was doing, which was quite crazy for her time, just to come back at 3:00 in the morning after doing events. From the same section of recipes from Khan’s childhood, I made a pan of til wale aloo (spicy sesame potatoes) which I took round to my son who was ill with Covid.