BIR recipes

This lemon fried rice recipe is sure to get your restaurant quality results! If you like lemon fried rice, you are in for a treat with this recipe. It’s a …

This is the chicken tikka recipe everyone wants to know. Whether you are making tandoori chicken tikka to eat on its own or add to a chicken tikka masala, this …

This is  coriander and mint chutney with a big difference! Amazingly good! You are going to love this coriander and mint chutney. It’s one of the first recipes that made …

This is British Indian restaurant (BIR) cooking at its best! I’ve been busy lately visiting some of my favourite Indian restaurants and learning their most popular recipes. Recently I was …

I’m often asked which spices are essential for good British Indian Restaurant (BIR) style cooking. Indian curry house cooking is different to more authentic styles in that it was adapted …

This restaurant style lamb seekh kebab recipe is so good! I like the simplicity of this lamb seekh kebab recipe. Having tried hundreds of recipes for lamb seekh kebabs over …

This mint and coriander chutney is essential for the British Indian Restaurant (BIR) experience. I have to admit that I am quite disappointed when I go out to an Indian …

Chicken tikka masala is famous worldwide but it needs to be made curry house style in order to be the real thing! Many cookbooks out there feature good copies but …

This is a homemade naan recipe with a difference! I don’t know about you but when I go out for a curry I always order naans. It’s mandatory. My whole …

Home fried poppadoms so much better than the packaged poppadoms you find at the shop! Whether you spell them poppadoms, poppadom, papadums or papadoms, you are probably looking at this …