Chef Naved is delighted to share the secrets of another not-even-in-the-cookbook recipe. This weekend, avail yourself of the Chilli Broccoli Salad: toasted pistachios and shredded mint leaves with broccoli, fresh red chillies, pumpkin seeds, dates and honey, all dressed up in lime and chilli. A most delicious at-home lunch, or a welcome addition to your Sunday table (might we suggest serving alongside lamb raan and naan – do take a look).
1 small (2/3 small head)
75g roasted pistachio nuts
¾ fresh red chilli
25 coriander leaves
4–5 mint leaves
25g roasted pumpkin seeds
25g Medjool dates
Salt, to taste
45g lime & chilli dressing
1 lime wedge
For the lime & chilli dressing
25ml lime juice
4–5 thin slices of ginger
1¼ small green chilli
½ tsp fine sea salt
19g granulated sugar
12ml rice vinegar
75ml mild olive oil or vegetable oil
A few mint leaves
For other Dishoom recipes, please see Dishoom: from Bombay with love, our cookery book and highly subjective guide to Bombay.
As a thirteen year old boy in Delhi with endless energy and appetite, I treasured Sunday mornings. I’d wake up early, jump on my rickety Hero Cycle bicycle and hurriedly pedal five miles to a park close to Shantivan and Raj Ghat. There, me and my friends would set-up makeshift stick stumps and play cricket for hours… or until our minds and bellies turned (inevitably) to food.
The festival of Eid al-Fitr (literally “the Celebration of the Breaking of the Fast”) marks the conclusion of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month where restraint and discipline must be practised.
In India, mealtimes are very much a family affair and everything is shared which makes these cheese-and-pastry twirls perfect for making together this half-term. They’re incredibly easy to make, which make them just right for keeping little hands happily occupied during the holidays.
The culmination of Ramadan will bring with it Chand Raat (the night of the moon), an evening of great excitement and unity. It’s the eventide or moment the first crescent moon of the month is observed, which marks the end of the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, a period of fasting, prayer and reflection, and the start of Eid, the beginning of great festivities.