

If you can’t get these, it goes just as well with steamed rice. We serve it with idiyappam, the white, lacy noodle pancakes, also known as string hoppers. Although it looks impressive, it is actually very easy to make, so you can serve it either as a week-night supper or as an indulgent dinner. It’s a light, fragrant and utterly delicious South-Indian-style curry, packed with juicy prawns and tempered with coconut milk. This is a special dish at Dishoom Covent Garden. The two recipes below, reprinted with the permission of Bloomsbury Publishing, are among dozens of possibilities in Dishoom: From Bombay with Love. But that shouldn’t stop anybody from using their brand-new, beautifully produced cookbook. There are now seven cafés in London, Edinburgh, and Manchester.ĭishoom Covent Garden will be closed from New Year’s Day until summer 2020 for a redesign. Dishoom is a small group of Indian restaurants that began in Covent Garden, London, in 2010.

In the United Kingdom, Dishoom now pays homage to the Irani cafés and the food of Bombay. There were almost four hundred of these cafés in the 1960s, but now fewer than thirty remain. In the early 1900s, Zoroastrian immigrants from Iran began opening cafés in Bombay, and Bombaiites from all walks of life found them open and welcoming. If you want to stay indoors and whip up a meal for the family or a party, all you need are the right ingredients, a decent kitchen- and great recipes. Don’t feel like splurging on a meal at a fancy restaurant? No worries.
