May’s dish of the month features the recipe for mutton biryani with dried fruits and Kashmiri spices, from the new cookbook Vivek Singh’s Indian Festival Feasts – out 1st June. As the month of Ramadan begins all over the world, this is a feasting dish perfect for Eid-ul-Fitr, the celebration that rounds up Ramadan. A biryani Read More
Otherwise known as ‘baghare baingan’, my April recipe is one that has different versions all over India, but the most popular one is from Hyderabad. It has rich, deep, earthy notes, and some recipes use fat green chillies alongside aubergines, or even include lamb’s liver in the sauce. The term ‘baghare’ refers to the tempering Read More
My March recipe is a firm favourite and is perfect for entertaining lots of guests in one go. You can give this recipe a go with hogget, mutton or even goat, so long as you stick to the shoulders. Serves 8-10 Ingredients: 2 shoulders of lamb, weighing about 1.5kg each, trimmed of any surface fat 2 Read More
December’s dish of the month features the recipe for a home-style chicken curry, or ‘ishtu’. This is served in Syrian-Christian households in Kerala for breakfast and is a firm favourite at the Christmas table. You use boned chicken in this recipe if you wish, but chicken on the bone provides much more flavour. If using boned Read More
As we head into the festive season, I’m sharing my recipe for Bengali crab and cod cakes. This is a great little snack, and an ideal dish for a party, it can be useful to use up all the trimmings, if you had a big party. The crab cakes are slightly unusual in its use of raisins, Read More
October’s dish of the month features the recipe for kheema stuffed parathas, a popular Punjabi breakfast. Dip the bread into yoghurt or pickle or scoop up butter with it. Traditionally it’s always freshly churned home made butter but regular salted butter will do just fine. As made by Vivek on BBC’s Saturday Kitchen – catch up on the show Read More
Vivek is considered one of the foremost authorities on Indian food in the UK and is a familiar face in the national media. He continues to make appearances on cookery shows such as Saturday Kitchen, Masterchef, Market Kitchen and is a regular face at food festivals up and down the country including Taste of London Read More
I’m delighted to be on the Christmas episode of Saturday Kitchen upcoming weekend. Christmas is possibly one of my favourite times of the year together with the feasts that are associated with it. The bit I am most thrilled about though, is being on the show alongside my personal food hero Rick Stein. I have long been Read More
Hot on the heels of Vivek’s appearance on Channel4’s Tricks of the Restaurant Trade that aired on 6th November, also look out for Vivek on the semi finals of My Kitchen Rules UK (@MKR_UK) next week. Tune in to Channel4 on Thursday 16th November, 1.05pm. This competitive cooking show has returned for a second series where 20 Read More
The forthcoming week is set to be a delicious one! On Thursday 15th December, be sure to look out for Vivek on BBC’s Christmas Kitchen special, where alongside guest hosts Matt Tebbutt and Andi Oliver, Vivek Singh will be sharing festive food ideas and preparing a special dish, perfect for the festive season. Tune into BBC One Read More