It’s been a busy weekend with recipe testing and a cooking demonstration at the Children’s Food Festival in Didcot near Oxford. What was impressive was the number of children who were keen to learn to cook Indian dishes and who were very open to all sorts of spices which they all knew the names of! Check out the recipes by clicking here.

They were introduced to Malaysia by the many South Indians (mostly Tamil) immigrants during the British colonial era. Rumour has it that the word “curry” came from the Indian name for theses leaves which is “kari patta”.