cuisine

Lasan victory on The F Word

By Indi | January 7, 2010

Lasan restaurant from Birmingham won the final and Indian Restaurants category on Gordon Ramsay’s F Word television show on Channel 4. They won the show’s final against chef team from The Pheasant, who serve traditional British food. Prior to the final, they won the semi-final against Santa Maria (South American cuisine) and Sweet Mandarin (Chinese [...]

Categories: Food
Tagged: Aktar Islam, Bengali, category, cookery, cuisine, F word, Food, Gordon Ramsay, indian restaurant, Jabbar Khan, lasan, Lasan Restaurant, The Curry Corner, The F Word, UK, winners
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Allesley Hotel Asian Wedding Fayre

By Nazhat | December 16, 2009

Asian weddings are a perfect blend of traditions, values and celebrations and planning Brit-Asian weddings is now a far more involved, exciting and in many cases, a stressful experience. The advent of events to promote services and suppliers for Asian weddings is now emerging to be one great way of reducing the stress and worry. [...]

Categories: Brit-Asian
Tagged: allesley hotel, asian, asian wedding fayre, biti, Blush, blush team, Bridal, bride, coventry, cuisine, des-c, Desi, desi girl, designer, dress, exhibition, fair, Fashion, fashion show, groom, indian, lehnga, marriage, nashaa, riitih, sabrina, sherwani, UK, wedding, ziggi
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Best Wines for Indian Cuisine

By Amit | November 9, 2009

Finding the right wine to drink with Indian and South Asian cuisine can be an interesting affair. Most people would think that red wine is most suited due to its old time pairing with meat, and it being cooked in spices. But with a major aspect of Indian food being vegetarian, it’s important not to [...]

Categories: Food
Tagged: choice, cuisine, dining, drink, eating, Food, indian food, pairing, red wine, restaurant, white wine, wine
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Chef shortage hits Curry Restaurants

By Amit | April 2, 2009

Following Home Secretary Jacqui Smith’s announcement that rules on foreign workers entering the UK will be tightened and the ‘shortage occupation list’ to remove chefs from the list, the UK curry restaurant trade is beginning to feel the impact of these changes. Ministers have suggested that they plan to force restaurants and takeaways to recruit [...]

Categories: Brit-Asian, Food
Tagged: asian, bangladeshi, Brit-Asian, chef, clutural, cooking, cuisine, dining, ethnic restaurants, Food, government, home secretary, indian, Jabbar Khan, lasan, Lasan Restaurant, law, ministers, professional chef, restaurant kitchen, rules, shortage, South Asian, takeaways, UK, women
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Vegetarian Shepherds Pie Recipe

By Madhu | March 10, 2009

The well-known British dish called Shepherd’s Pie is named after the fact that its main ingredient is usually lamb or mutton, and that shepherds traditionally look after sheep. This recipe however, is a meat free recipe of the same dish. History says that traditionally Shepherd’s Pie was served on a Monday, using up the leftover Sunday [...]

Categories: Brit-Asian, Food
Tagged: chili powder, cooking, cuisine, Desi, Food, garlic cloves, ginger root, grated cheese, learn, meat substitute, mexican, oxo, recipe, sheperds pie, spring onions, tomato puree, uk supermarkets, vegan, vegetarian recipe
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Asian Wedding Cuisine

By Amit | May 27, 2008

Indian and Pakistani food plays a very important role in Asian weddings and all other celebratory occasions. Depending on the type of event, the cuisine for the day should make guests feel they are special and their taste-buds dancing to the sumptuous food served. As the cuisine is always a talking point of Asian weddings. [...]

Categories: Brit-Asian, Food
Tagged: Asian Bridal Fayre, Asian Wedding Cuisine, Brit-Asian, british asian, chinese, cuisine, english, features, Food, history, indian, pakistani, spice corner, wedding
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Unforgettable Imran Khan
By Indi • August 10, 2009
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Desi Bridal Dresses
By Nazhat • August 20, 2009
Changes in fashion and preference have developed the demand for Desi bridal dresses. Western wedding... Continue »
The Sherwani for Men
By Omi Gurung • August 27, 2009
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British or Asian? The Identity Crisis
By Sripurna Basu • August 1, 2010
Almost all British Asians have heard that question – “Where are you from?”... Continue »
Allesley Hotel Asian Wedding Fayre
By Nazhat • December 16, 2009
Asian weddings are a perfect blend of traditions, values and celebrations and planning... Continue »
Fashions of Salwar Kameez
By Nazhat • April 20, 2010
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Tagore paintings sold at Sotheby’s
By Neha Bhargava • June 22, 2010
Rabindranath Tagore has been renowned as a world-class poet, playwright, songwriter... Continue »
Temporary limit on UK Immigrant workers
By Amit • June 28, 2010
The new British coalition government will be imposing a temporary limit on the the... Continue »
Top 10 Risks of the South Asian Diet
By Gulshinder Chattha • July 5, 2010
South Asians have a much higher risk of chronic disease. The risk of getting type 2 Diabetes... Continue »
India’s Forgotten Women
By Nisha • July 10, 2010
India’s Forgotten Women, a human rights documentary was screened on Thursday 1st July 2010... Continue »
Bollywood goes Twitter crazy!
By Amit • July 12, 2010
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Prasad Bidapa the Fashion Guru
By Omi Gurung • July 19, 2010
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By Smriti Gopal • July 25, 2010
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Hard Kaur
By Nazhat • July 22, 2010
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DEC Pakistan Flood Appeal
By Amit • August 5, 2010
The Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) has launched an emergency appeal to raise aid for victims... Continue »
Jaz Dhami
By Jas Sembhi • August 25, 2010
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Katrina Kaif plays role of a Virus
By Amit • June 3, 2009
McAfee Inc. the computer security specialists, have announced that searching and downloading... Continue »
Free Bollywood films on YouTube
By Amit • September 2, 2010
YouTube the most popular video website, owned by Google, has collaborated with Rajshri and... Continue »
Shahrukh Khan StarPix Widget
By DESIblitzer • July 3, 2008
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Love marriages better than Arranged?
By Nazhat • September 17, 2008
Are arranged marriages losing their appeal to love marriages? Or is arranged marriage,... Continue »
Malkit Singh MBE
By Jas Sembhi • October 9, 2008
DESIblitz brings its SpotLight onto the Bhangra legend who has been in the UK Bhangra music industry for... Continue »
Vegetarian Shepherds Pie Recipe
By Madhu • March 10, 2009
The well-known British dish called Shepherd’s Pie is named after the fact that its main... Continue »
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By DESIblitzer • August 18, 2009
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By DESIblitzer • July 19, 2008
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The Secret of Size Zero Kareena
By Sripurna Basu • September 24, 2009
It wasn’t just Kareena Kapoor’s clothes which attracted attention in the Bollywood... Continue »
Loss of Traditions
By Sandy Bains • August 2, 2009
From the early 1960′s to the early 1990′s, South-Asians developed a close-knit community in... Continue »