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
BESSARA WITH CUMIN AND LEMON AND GARLIC OIL
In its native Morocco, this tasty soup is often eaten as a hearty workers’ breakfast, served from street stalls and hole-in-the-wall cafés. With such a simple pulse-based dish, getting the seasoning right is absolutely key to elevating it from potentially bland to really sublime, and here a sprinkle of spice and a good drizzle of
GRILLED CHERMOULA HERRINGS
Herrings are like the big cousins of sardines and with a little more flesh to the bone they are less fiddly to eat. You could very easily substitute sardines if they are easier to find, however. Either way, just make sure your fish are spanking fresh in this simple barbecue recipe with a Moroccan street
BEGHRIR WITH HONEY BUTTER SYRUP
Beghrir , also known as ‘thousand hole pancakes’, are a hybrid between a crumpet and an American pancake and are popular in Morocco as a breakfast on the run, or as a snack to break fasting during Ramadan. I love to eat these with fresh figs – their musky sweetness feels like a fitting match
RED RED WITH FRIED PLANTAIN
Supposedly named ‘red red’ after its two principal rouge-coloured components – African red palm oil and tomato purée – this is a hearty vegetarian bean stew from Ghana. For the red palm oil, try Afro-Caribbean food shops or online, but if you can’t get hold of it, substitute groundnut oil. The finished dish will, however,
BEEF SUYA Recipe
With the peanuts and spices, I guess these kebabs are the African equivalent of Indonesian satay. Except here the peanuts are ground to a powder and rubbed all over the meat rather than turned into a dipping sauce. The chicken stock cube may seem like an odd addition, but it’s really authentic and suya just
JOLLOF RICE
Nigerian jollof rice is said to be the precursor of the Creole classic jambalaya, and like jambalaya it can contain a wide variety of vegetables and meat, more like a paella. However, this version is pared down to its roots: just red peppers and tomatoes puréed with a few spices in which to cook the
