We are delighted to welcome Monisha Bharadwaj back through our Kitchen doors to teach this bespoke Indian Restaurant Curries cooking class.
If you love Indian food and want to create your favourite dishes in your own kitchen, then this is the class for you. You will learn how to prepare classic restaurant style curries with a fresh, authentic home-made flavour along with side dishes that will make going to the takeaway a thing of the past.
Typical recipes might include Jeera Pulao (Cumin flavoured rice), Lamb Dhansak (Lamb in a lentil and vegetable curry), Butter Chicken (Chicken in a velvety tomato curry), Saag Aloo (Spinach and Potato Curry), Paneer Tikka Masala (Paneer in a delicately spiced sauce) and a Cucumber Raita with smoked cumin
In this fully hands on class you will learn how to use spices for depth of flavour to understand the subtleties of these magical ingredients. You will be creating everything from scratch and learning how to cook perfect rice. We will create a perfectly balanced Indian meal that’s easy to recreate at home. You will learn the subtle art of layering ingredients in a curry to create balance, Monisha’s aim is that you will continue to cook delicious Indian meals at home with the knowledge and recipes taken from the day.
Monisha Bharadwaj is an award winning author, chef, food historian and a food writer based in London. Many of her 17 books have won prestigious international awards including the World Gourmand Cookbook Award 2020 for ‘Indian in 7- recipes using 7 ingredients or fewer’. Monisha is a qualified chef from the prestigious Institute of Hotel Management in Mumbai and has run her successful cookery school Cooking With Monisha, situated in West London, teaching her brand of simple, healthy Indian cooking, since 2005. She is often seen on TV in programmes such as Inside the Factory and Food and Drink, both for the BBC. Monisha is also invited as a guest speaker on Radio 4’s Food Programme and their show on ‘Turmeric’ won the Fortnum and Mason Award in 2018. Monisha also holds a BA in Indian History and brings the fun stories and history of Indian food to all the classes she teaches.
The day is fully hands on and starts at 10am with breakfast and will finish around 3.30 to 4pm. Includes lunch with wine.
