• Friday, April 19, 2024

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Chef Mira Manek offers soul food from India

By: Lauren Codling

By Lauren Codling THE author of an Indian cookbook hopes her recipes will counter the notion that food from the subcontinent is “oily, heavy and creamy”. Mira Manek’s first book Saffron Soul is a collection of Indian dishes with a contemporary twist. Indian-inspired recipes for layered lentil and sweet potato jars; mango shrikhand (a sweet dish typical from the western state of Maharashtra); and cheesecake are Manek’s offering that keen foodies can experiment with and appreciate. Layered lentil and sweet potato jars Acknowledging that Indian food can be seen as rich and unnecessarily unhealthy, she is eager to provide a…

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