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
January’s dish of the month features the recipe for a rich, winter-warming Beef Bhuna. Bhuna is a term you commonly find on restaurant menus. It refers to cooking meat with spices with little or no water added. This requires constant stirring to prevent the spices sticking to the bottom of the pan but the resulting 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
Dear Friends, Hot on the heels of the opening of Cinnamon Kitchen Oxford, I am very excited about the next development in our Cinnamon Kitchen journey. From an old East India Company spice warehouse (Cinnamon Kitchen City), to the Westgate development in the heart of cultural Oxford (Cinnamon Kitchen Oxford), we are now heading South Read More
2017 for us began on roller skates, simply because we had just opened Cinnamon Bazaar in November 2016. It was one thrilling ride, where we were learning our way around Covent Garden and finding our feet with our new restaurant. At the same time, we were enjoying the attention that Cinnamon Bazaar was getting. We were thrilled with meeting lots of 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
As most people spend Christmas Day in the kitchen, why not leave the cooking and the roasting up to us for Christmas Eve? Come and spend it with us at The Cinnamon Club where we will add the glam and the grandeur to your evening. With delicious dishes like breast of red legged partridge, green spiced Scottish pheasant and Garam Masala 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
We’re delighted to announce the release of the first few cookery masterclasses for 2018. I will once again open the doors to the kitchen in Cinnamon Kitchen, Devonshire Square and share some of our favourite recipes and topics with you. Together with Hari Nagaraj, Rakesh Ravindran Nair and Raju Ramachandran I look forward to covering a range Read More
In honour of James Martin’s final Saturday Kitchen Live appearance, March’s recipe has to be his all-time favourite – Old Delhi-Style Butter Chicken! Without doubt butter chicken has to be India’s favourite dish when eating out. I must have asked hundreds of people to name the one dish they always order when they go out Read More