Recipes: Manju Malhi

A typical Bengali fish curry, Maacher Jhol is a light fish stew, seasoned with ground spices: ginger, cumin, coriander, chilli and turmeric. The sauce is thin yet packed with flavour. Whole green chillies can be added at the end of the cooking. Hoki is a succulent, white fish with a meaty texture perfect for this dish, though haddock can be used instead.

Butter Chicken is a rich and indulgent dish from the northern Indian region of Punjab. Delhi can also be classed as the home of Murgh Makhani as it is otherwise known.

Chettinad is a town in Chennai, formerly known as Madras, where most of the curries are hot but deliciously flavoured with whole and ground spices.

This is a delicious Dosa filling recipe. Dosa is a popular South Indian pancake that is made from fermented batter of rice and skinned black lentils.

The rice and lentils are soaked separately in water overnight, then blended and combined. The mixture then ferments for another 10 hours. The bubbly batter is used to make thin and crispy pancakes, which are filled with all kinds of stuffings. One of the spicier fillings is this potato masala recipe. It's a great dish and if you don't have time to make the Dosa pancake mix can be enjoyed with naan bread or chapatis