Rosemary Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Authentic focaccia is made with a generous amount of olive oil (see video below). Plenty of oil ensures your focaccia is moist and rich. Once you’ve mastered a basic focaccia recipe you can start having fun with toppings. Most […]
Onion Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! Ligurian restaurateur Lucio Galletto makes the most delicious focaccia I’ve tasted (see video below), so my recipe is inspired by his and uses plenty of delicate Ligurian-style olive oil. Lucio calls focaccia ‘Liguria’s answer to pizza’ and I see […]
Olive Focaccia Join my food & wine tour to Italy to discover more Italian regional specialties! My focaccia recipe is inspired by Ligurian restaurateur Lucio Galletto, who uses more water and oil in his recipe than most I’ve seen (see video below). Liguria is famous for the tiny, tasty Taggiasche olives that make the most […]
Roti Chanai Like this Roti Chanai recipe? You’ll love my online Malaysian cooking class inspired by Simon Goh! Roti chanai (also written roti canai and roti cane) is popular in India, Malaysia and Singapore (where it’s called roti prata). This flaky flatbread is an essential accompaniment to many curries, in fact it’s ideal for soaking […]
Bolo do Caco Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Portuguese cooking class! Bolo do caco, simple rolls that look a bit like English muffins, are flatbreads from the Portuguese island of Madeira. Bolo means cake in Portuguese and caco is the stone hotplate on which they’re traditionally cooked. On Madeira bolo do caco are […]
Roti Telur Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Singaporean cooking class! The dough for murtabak, one of my favourite Singaporean snacks, is basically the same as roti dough and can be used to make roti telur, delicious egg-filled roti. My friend Simon Goh simply breaks an egg into the centre of his roti dough, […]
Baps (Scottish Morning Rolls) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! I have a wonderful memory of being at my Auntie Mary’s house in Glasgow and scurrying down the road early one morning to buy beautifully soft floury baps from the local baker for our breakfast (the scurry was necessary as it […]
How To Make Paratha (Kerala Parotta) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Indian cooking class inspired by Ajoy Joshi! India has so many delicious flatbreads, including roti, naan, puris and dosas. But Kerala parotta (called paratha in other parts of the country) is my favourite one to make. Making parotta is so easy once […]
Eggplant Fatteh Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Fatteh comes from the Arabic verb to ‘break up’ or ‘crumble’, which is what’s done to the stale flatbread in this eggplant fatteh recipe. Fatteh is one of those ingenious peasant dishes created to ensure nothing goes to waste and it’s a great […]
Lahmacun Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! Lahmacun (or lahmajun) is a contraction of ‘lahm bi ajeen’ literally meaning ‘meat with bread’; and these simple tasty flatbreads are also sometimes referred to as Armenian or Turkish pizza. The dough and lamb topping can also be used to make little Lebanese meat […]
