Ukrainian and international home cooking recipes
This salad is a home cook’s take on Coronation chicken, the British-Indian dish invented for the 1953 coronation: poached chicken in a spiced curry sauce with an apricot note. Here the cooked bird is pulled by hand into shreds — they grab the dressing far better than neat knife-cut cubes — and folded into a […]
This dish comes from a Soviet-era take on an Indian idea — meat with sweet fruit and warm spices — which is where the nod to Bombay (Mumbai) comes from. A whole chicken is marinated in brandy, honey, and spices, seared to a crust, then finished in a 200C (about 400F) oven while you baste […]
Salt the pumpkin the night before and don’t skip it — the salt pulls out water so the finished chutney sets up thick and jammy instead of runny. That single overnight step does more for the texture than anything you do at the stove. Chutney is a thick sweet-and-sour condiment, simmered down until it spreads […]