Multi cultural recipes from around the world

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Following from my request for a Muslim board thread, we have somehow found a common ground on sharing recipes from our cultures.

So here is a thread to do just that!

Ps. Potatoes do not belong in briyani.

Interesting fact about koshary is that it is derived from an Indian recipe called khichdi
https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/khichdi

Thank you for starting this thread

I have just acquired a beautiful Omani recipe book. Irish but grew up there Bahari: Recipes From an Omani Kitchen and Beyond amzn.eu/d/67mvDyX

The secret to a good Bolognese sauce is too cook it over a long time.
This is my Italian grandmother's recipe. ( I have omitted the pancetta and red wine)
This is for 4 people.
250 g minced beef
350g tomato coulis
1 glass of milk
1 celery stalk
1 carrot
1 onion
1 glass of beef stock
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 tbsp olive oil
Salt
Herbs de Provence
Black pepper

Chop the onion, carrot and celery stalk into small cubes.
Fry them all together for a few seconds in the olive oil, then reduce the heat to very low and continue cooking until the vegetables turn brown. Then add the minced beef. Brown the mince then add the rest of the ingredients.
Cover and simmer on a very low heat between 2 to 3 hours, checking it every so often. You may need to add more stock at times.

Thank you @Auvergne63.

Tomato coulis - is this the same as tin chopped tomato or passata?

Brilliant thread. Will have a think about what I can share.
@hangingonfordearlife1 - would love your recipes please!

That’s interesting, I’ve never thought of adding tamarind to my dhal but I will next time I make it!

Coulis will be similar to passata but in traditional French cooking it will be made from fresh ripe tomatoes, (which will be far better than most of the toms we get here - unless you grow your own.)

Use an Asian brand- east end is what I use. But don’t buy the “ground” version. Buy it whole and grind it yourself. It tastes MUCH better

If anyone likes Caribbean food, this creamy Cajun pasta is really nice and quick.

Nothing to contribute, as just from a white working class English background, but very much here for ideas!

Has anybody got any delicious vegetarian Greek or Caribbean recipes?

Agree about potatoes in a biryani!

Fantastic, I'm here to learn!

Add a drizzle in while cooking or a drizzle after. I prefer during. You can buy it as a sauce or as a block which is more traditional and sour.

I’m always after traditional English / British recipes. Love stews, casseroles, hotpots.

Here's one of my favourite British recipes. You can adapt it to suit e.g. swap the turkey for chicken and leave out the bacon. Using just vegetables works well too:
https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/turkey-recipes/turkey-and-sweet-leek-pie/

It is even better if you make your own pastry. This is the recipe I use:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/rough-puff-pastry

oh perfect! I love pie too and so like Jamie Oliver’s recipes.

Here to learn, have been really longing to expand my culinery outings - I've spent most of adulthood cooking European food and really want to become good at other cuisines. Basic recipes, streetfood, nothing is too lowly for my interest.

Thank you so much, Contributors, you are making an old woman very happy!

@Pinkfluffypencilcase Can't help, sorry. I'm a vegetarian and most of those recipes from my childhood are meat-based.

Ah never mind.

Though dd is now vegetarian. I’m ok with Indian veggie curries but anything English based I struggle. I think it’s because I dont know how to bring the flavours out.

A couple of veggie things I do based on old fashioned childhood food. Not sure if any use and certainly not at all fancy.

Potato pie -
fry up an onion and some leeks in butter
mix into mashed potato with lots of grated cheese, plus salt and pepper
put in an oven proof dish and put more grated cheese on top
bake until all burnished and crispy on top

My mum used to do a version of that but all piled into a pastry case for double carbs. We used to love it! Now we have it without the pastry. Can be eaten with baked beans (if you like the nasty sugary, soggy little bastards, which I don't), with salad (I like one with a honey/mustard dressing with it) or as my dh likes it, with frozen peas and HP sauce. Very much Northern working class food! I used to do tiny ones in jam tart cases (complete with pastry) for the dc when small.

Soup - fry up onion/leeks/carrots/diced swede and potatoes and a couple of sticks of celery. Add vegetable stock and a couple of handfuls of red lentils. Cook. Mash it a bit with a potato masher to thicken. Add a shedload of black pepper.

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie your potato pie sounds epic. I'm so making that this week!

@RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie agree potato pie sounds delicious!

i wonder if adding more cheese could turn it into cheese pie? I’m after a recipe for my dp dad who’s wife made it. Sadly she’s died and doesn’t have the recipe. From what I can glean it has potato and onion in.

looking forward to making it. Sounds like comfort food.

I think 'Cheese pie' might be Lancashire cheese and onion pie? Or old school dinner cheese flan?

I would love a good jerk chicken and rice and peas recipe. I find a lot of jerk places in London have a bbq type sauce which doesn't taste like the jerk my dad used to make. Sadly I was too busy going out to watch him make it and now he has passed.