Welcome to our #IReadItInABook feature where we eat cauliflower for breakfast, make food for unicorns and beach comb in November. This time we are putting fish fingers in a curry. Why? Because we read it in a book!
Cook, Eat, Repeat
I just LOVE how Nigella Lawson writes. For this reason alone she is one of my favorite cooks. I had watched the latest television series and delighted in her leopard print knife, her instructions on buttering toast and the copious amount of fairy lights so was tickled pink when the accompanying book, Cook, Eat, Repeat landed in my Christmas Stocking.
The book is a homage to recipes Nigella cooks time and time again yet it is more than a simple recipe book. Recipes are tucked away amongst recollections of a favorite restaurant, an old cook book or a childhood memory. Chapters are brilliantly entitled, ‘A is for Anchovy’, ‘A Loving Defence of Brown Food’ and include a fair few recipes just for 1. Refreshing in a period of time where we are all seeing less people.
The challenge
One or two of Nigella‘s recipes certainly raised an eyebrow (rice pudding, in a cake???) but it was the Fish finger Bhorta that caught my eye the most. Fish fingers, in a curry????
Well not actually a curry as a Bhorta means to cook with mustard, chilli and onion originating from Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. It’s a traditional side dish usually served with potatoes but Nigella, following a Tweet that caught her eye, adds fish fingers. Yep you read that right, the orange coated, frozen rectangles we usually stick in a sandwich. This I had to try.
The recipe was really easy to make and delivered a vibrant, tasty dish that both hubby and I loved. I could well imagine prawns or white fish being substituted if the thought of Captain Birdseye brings you out in cold sweats. I will make it again and if you haven’t read the book get it, as much for the read as for the recipes.
P.S Rice Pudding in a cake works REALLY well. Especially if you add rum and raisins…
Bring on the challenges!
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