Macaroni cheese is a classic and surprisingly easy to make. Forget the packet stuff, once you realise how easy this recipe is and how much better it tastes you’ll never look back. Mac cheese has got a bit of a bad reputation for being a bland ready meal but it needn’t be the case. The…
One of the side effects of being married to a vegetarian is that I eat a lot less meat than I used to. Given the health benefits that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Being veggies at home means that to avoid eating pasta everyday you need to get a little bit creative with your cooking….
Dal Makhani is a classic dish that originates from Northern India. It is a national treasure that until now I have found very hard to and replicate at home. After a few failed attempts using a regular pan and even a pressure cooker making this dal in a slow cooker is the only way I…
Knowing how to make chilli flakes or powder with your homegrown chillies is very simple and perhaps the easiest way to use up a glut of ripe chillies. Making flakes is the perfect activity for an autumn when you plants are heaving with ripe fruit. The easiest method that produces the most consistent results is…
A few years ago I had a lassi at an Indian restaurant that stopped me in my tracks. It was creamy, tangy and had that distinctive freshness that shop-bought yogurt never quite manages to replicate. I asked the waiter and (unsurprisingly) he informed me they made their own yogurt or curd as he called it….
I can’t remember where I found this recipe…it’s something I stumbled across online a while ago and I noted down in my trusty notebook where it lay forgotten until a couple of weeks ago. My Lemon Drop plant has been podding like crazy in our conservatory, producing well over 125 pods this year so I…
In our humble opinion here at The Chilli King, chilli jelly needs to be hot. In fact we think it needs to be a little bit ‘too hot’. The Trinidad Moruga Scorpion peppers we use in this recipe are perfect for achieving that heat – definitely classed as a super hot variety. Their fruity, slightly…
Habanero hot sauce is one of those things that sounds intimidating until you actually make it – and then you wonder why you ever bought commercial hot sauce at all. This is our go-to base recipe, developed over years of growing habaneros at home – it has become one of the most requested things we…
Rasam is one of South India’s most beloved dishes. A thin, intensely flavoured broth that manages to be simultaneously sour, spicy, earthy and deeply comforting. If dal makhani is North India’s great comfort food, rasam is the South’s equivalent, found on family tables from Tamil Nadu to Karnataka every single day. The flavour profile is…