Monir Ali

Tandoori Chicken Bites, Vegetable Koftas, Samosas, Chapatis - you will find all these in Manju Malhi’s fifth cookbook.

Both Bengalis and Bangladeshis are known throughout the culinary world for their love of fish.

What some countries do best is inspire the world with their cuisine and ingredients. But olives are not the first ingredients that come to mind when thinking of South Asia.

This dish is a famous classic from the heart of Northern India, the Punjab.

The tight lanes and back streets, filled with life, from street hawkers, to housewives doing the general shop, the tourists and of course the famous dhabas, street food kitchens perched on the edge of the curbs and where the Old Delhi Butter Chicken legend was born.

The first dish I learned to cook with my mother was, in its purest form a comfort food.

The new year is a far and distant memory, and all of the good intentions of healthy eating and hitting the gym seem to have faded into the cold winter.

Anyone who knows me - knows I have a lot of hair! So who else would be brave enough to review some hair brushes!

Father ’s Day is coming up, and like most dads I dread it!

If Willy Wonka was Asian he would have invented a chocolate bar that summed up the flavours  of East Asia.  He wasn't, and he didn't.