Madhur Jaffrey is, quite simply, the woman who taught Britain to cook real Indian food. Since she moved to London in 1957 to study at RADA, Britain's attitude to food and eating has changed out of all recognition. At first exotic flavours were tentatively sampled, then more enthusiastically embraced, and now they have taken their place in the nation's repertoire of everyday favourites. These days home cooks and highfalutin chefs alike experiment with fusions of European and Indian ingredients and flavours, and few would look askance at something like a traditional British roast accompanied by bombay potatoes or aloo gobi.
When Madhur's first television series flashed onto our screens in 1982, the nation was just about ready to move on from the simple curries it had created and classified based on spiciness - korma for the fainthearted, madras and vindaloo for the more buccaneering. For large numbers of ordinary shoppers previously unobtainable exotic ingredients were starting to become available in shops run by growing communities of Asian and east African migrants, and here for the first time on British TV was someone cooking genuine Indian recipes. Thirty years on, Madhur's most recent recipe book, Curry Nation, takes up the tale of these cuisines in Britain told through favourite and family recipes of people who have moved here, and Madhur is also back on the small screen.
We have extracted three dishes to provide a brief flavour of the 100 recipes in the new book: a delicious starter in the form of marinated chilli mutton chops, rice cooked with chicken in an aromatic chicken broth (Madhur's favourite childhood pilaf), and a wonderfully tasty yet disarmingly simple vegetable side dish, aubergine with nigella seeds.
We'll also have Madhur joining us live on this very thread on Thursday at 1pm (GMT) to answer any questions you might have about cooking recipes from Indian regions and neighbouring countries. So if you're puzzled by why a certain technique or recipe just won't work for you, are wondering how to add a new and exciting dimension to meals you already cook or just need some fresh inspiration for wonderful weekday suppers or extensive weekend feasts, post your questions below.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/nov/07/live-chat-madhur-jaffrey
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