Rubina Shaukat
Professional Chef and Cookery TeacherRubina Shaukat is a professional chef who teaches cooking at a government technical college in Pakistan. She manages IngRecipe, sharing recipes and practical guides to ingredients and kitchen basics for home cooks. She also runs the Home Ingrecipe kitchen in Multan.
Chef's Recipes
MANGO AND CARDAMOM KULFI LOLLIES
The creamiest, most fragrant lollies ever, kulfi are made by evaporating whole milk until it’s rich and almost caramelised. The beauty of enriching the milk like this is that you don’t need an ice cream maker to churn and break up the ice crystals; passing this mixture through a fine sieve ensures a velvety texture.
EGG HOPPERS WITH CORIANDER COCONUT CHUTNEY
A fabulously unusual Sri Lankan brunch dish, egg hoppers are coconut and rice flour pancakes cooked with a steamed egg in the middle. Traditionally cooked in a ‘hopper pan’ – a small high-sided wok – that gives the pancakes a classic bowl shape, but a non-stick wok or frying pan is fine. Note: you will
SHRIMP VADAI WITH POL SAMBOL
With the texture and nuttiness of a falafel and the added succulence of king prawns, these Sri Lankan shrimp vadai (prawn fritters) are hugely moreish. The pol sambol is a fiery coconut-based dry chutney that goes well with many spicy dishes – try it with the egg hoppers . Maldive fish flakes are hard to
CHICKEN CURRY KOTTU ROTI
Kottu roti (literally ‘chopped roti’) is perhaps the defining street food of Sri Lanka, their equivalent of a burger in terms of sheer popularity. The curry recipe calls for a lot of ingredients and preparation, so I’ve made double the quantity you need, so you can freeze a batch for next time. You could also
TURMERIC FRIED EGGS WITH CURRY SAUCE
I adore egg curries; if you’ve never made one and are a touch sceptical, I urge you to give this Sri Lankan version a go. Eggs and spices are simply made for each other, and here you have soft-boiled eggs fried until crisp on the outside, served in a generous puddle of curry sauce –
TEA EGGS
I absolutely love these marbled hard-boiled eggs. Popular with street vendors across China, they are exquisite to look at, taste mighty fine and are a doddle to make. This recipe is very easily adapted to make as many tea eggs as you like: you don’t really need to increase the spices and soy, just make
