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
MIDYE DOLMA
This is a really different take on mussels, and a speciality on the streets of Istanbul. The mussels are opened out, stuffed with a spiced rice mixture and then steamed to perfection. Delicious. Opening a mussel does take a little practice, but it’s very similar to shucking an oyster. You are essentially slicing the mussel
BALIK EKMEK
Literally ‘fish bread’, this Turkish sandwich is simple, quick and utterly delicious – perfect for an impromptu barbecue. Just make sure your fish is spanking fresh – if ever there was a fish that should be eaten straight from the sea, it’s a mackerel.
GOZLEME WITH SPINACH, FETA AND PINENUTS
Gozleme are incredibly tasty stuffed flatbreads from Turkey. The dough is made with plain yogurt, which makes it a delight to work with: smooth, stretchy and very well behaved. They would usually be cooked on a flat griddle over a wood fire, so in the spirit of tradition I like to fire up my barbecue
CHURROS AND CHOCOLATE SAUCE
The quintessential Spanish street breakfast, churros are long, thin doughnuts served with a rich chocolate sauce for dunking. You could also flavour the sauce the Mexican way with a little orange zest stirred through as the milk warms.
EMPANADILLAS DE ATUN
The Spanish answer to a pasty, these little pastries are stuffed full of tuna amd sweet onions and peppers, and are heady with the scent of smoked paprika. For the very best flavour, they are great served warm, rather than hot, making them the ideal candidate for a street-food picnic.
GNOCCO FRITTO
There are a few things I like to the eat the most when I go back to Italy: gnocco fritto is definitely one of them. I crave it so much when I am here in the States that it becomes a special treat when I am back home. Fluffy, crunchy and so flavourful, gnocco fritto
