Mowgli Street Food: Stories and recipes from the Mowgli Street Food restaurants

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She is the founder of Mowgli Street Food and shares her passion for simple, honest cookery on the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and BBC Radio 4. She gave up her 20-year career in law (she had been the first female Indian barrister in Liverpool) to build Mowgli Street Food. The Indian chip butty is one of my favourite dishes that is enjoyed by the whole family , perfect comfort food and the butter. Rub the tandoori masala into the diced chicken then, in a separate large non-stick frying pan set over a medium-high heat, fry for 6 minutes or until the chicken starts to change colour and brown at the edges.

Place the cauliflower on the baking sheet and roast it in the oven for 45 minutes–1 hour, or until cooked through. Here, aubergine/eggplant replaces the traditional mutton and soaks up the flavours of the sauce just as beautifully. If you wanted to make this an even more hearty dish, you could serve it on a bed of warm whole grains. The dough has to be exactly the right density and needs to be dry enough to form a tight, waterproof final fry. For a pretty pink colour, try to find a genuine Indian rose syrup (in the Asian aisles of supermarkets or in Indian grocers).

All the recipes are meals that range from light lunches to substantial dinners; all you need to do is accompany them with one of the simple sides suggested in the introduction, which could be rice, noodles, potatoes or a chapati wrap. From the Mowgli Chip Butty to the iconic Yogurt Chat Bombs, Mother Butter Chicken to Calcutta Tangled Greens, this is the definitive collection of Mowgli's signature street food dishes to recreate at home. I used a very spicy garlic chilli chutney instead of the mowgli chutney on the roti and as a dip on the plate. When Nisha started sharing her ideas for a new cookery book encapsulating this approach on her Mowgli Instagram channel during the spring 2020 lockdown, she was thrilled by the hugely positive response.

There are now 6 Mowgli restaurants around the UK, beloved for their fresh and tasty Indian home cooking (and famous Chip Butties). Proper Homestyle Lamb Curry Tutorial | Proper Homestyle Lamb Curry Tutorial - Turmeric chilli garam masala and then I upped the Cumin and the coriander powder. Either way, it is the perfect dessert for entertaining as it can be made ahead of time and is super easy. From showstopping slaws to the ultimate Aloo Ghobi, Mother Butter Chicken to Calcutta Tangled Greens, each dish truly captures the smash-and-grab zing of Indian food.and the service is of unparallelled loveliness" --Giles Coren, The Times Magazine You may also be interested in. Having visited the two Mowgli restaurants when staying in Liverpool i was hoping there would be a way to copy their fabulous food, especially the fenugreek kissed fries and the sticky wings, now i can thanks to this book, each menu is so easy to follow and the pictures make you just want to cook, well worth a read. We can go a couple of days on bangers and mash but then we start to sneak adulterants into our grub to get that spice hit.

I used not the best quality fish (supermarket batch frozen) and I had to make sure it was defrosted drained and dried throughly.Stir the ground turmeric, chilli powder, salt, sugar, lemon juice and the canned tomatoes into the aubergine mix and fry for a further 6 minutes until the oil has started to split out of the tomatoes. When you’re ready to cook, preheat the oven to 200°C/gas mark 6 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment. This is the food that Nisha Katona cooks at home: punchy and delicious Mowgli-style recipes that take you from couch to curry in 30 minutes or less. My parents were, as were many first generation immigrants, keen horticulturalists who grew spinach, beets, radishes, squashes . It is the Indian equivalent of a burger, with spicy mince and peas served in a bun piled with some tangy salad.