Asian Lite News Archive

Category: Food

  • Maintain Calorie During Festive Season

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    The one thing the pandemic has been unable to disrupt is your sweet tooth. Many of us have thrown caution to the wind, with no gyms and lockdown as a great excuse to indulge. With the festive season just around the corner, celebrations and sweets are very much on the top of your mind. In…

  • Tackle Infection With ‘SMART’ Quarantine Routine

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    The Covid-19 outbreak has brought along the burden of uncertainty and fear amongst people; on a global scale, citizens have now become accustomed to the work from home and quarantine routine. As we prepare ourselves for a post-lockdown world, keeping in mind various safety and precautionary measures, is imperative. It’s important we maintain and follow…

  • Gurdial’s 40 years of serving Indian food in Norway

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    A Punjab-born restaurateur has been making waves in Norway for the past 40 years, serving Indian traditional dishes with authentic ingredients and winning hearts. “Forty years ago Gurdial Singh from Kapurthala opened the first Indian restaurant in Norway. He taught me and other Norwegians to love Indian food,” former UN Environment Executive Director Erik Solheim…

  • Nutritional Way Towards Health

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    Every year, we celebrate National Day of Sports to honour and commemorate the spirit of the legendary sportsperson, Major Dhyan Chand who is regarded as the nation’s greatest hockey player ever. The day was instituted to educate India’s youth on the importance of being fit and healthy, by practising sports and other physical activities. Along…

  • Know Yourself Before Starting Diet

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    Dieting is not always about weight loss or weight gain, a diet is a part of your lifestyle and refers to the food and drink you consume daily. It relates to the mental and physical circumstances connected with eating. It’s about knowing yourself, your body, nutritional requirements and consuming a nutritious diet over a sustained…

  • Nutty Swift In Snacking

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    While the idea of snacking encompasses a variety of foods, a recent survey finds that over the past few years, there has been a conscious change in people’s preferences and habits, and a stronger inclination is seen towards healthier snacking items. According to a survey conducted by IPSOS, 91 percent of the participants try and…

  • Tips To Manage Hidden Hunger

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    Nutrition for kids plays a vital role in their lives. With the rise of snacking nowadays thanks to the lockdown, kids today might not be getting the vital nutrients they need, to support their growth and development. This leads to hidden hunger that can affect their wellbeing over time. Globally, at least 1 in 2…

  • Herbal Tea To Combat Covid

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    State-run Chaudhary Sarwan Kumar Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya in this town in the picturesque Kangra Valley has developed immune-boosting herbal tea to combat Covid-19, scientists said on Thursday. The tea contains scientifically proven antioxidant properties to help boost immunity against fungal, bacterial and viral diseases, Vice-Chancellor Ashok Kumar Sarial told. The proposed value-added tea bags…

  • SPECIAL: Halal Holidays Garner Momentum

    SPECIAL: Halal Holidays Garner Momentum

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    “Halal Tourism” is a new concept in the travel sector along with many other specialist holiday programs. Halalbooking.com is one of the leading pioneers in setting custom-made holidays for Muslim travelers….writes Mohammed Reza Amirina The term “Halal” has emerged as a new trend in the world of marketing, not only as a brand, identifying the…

  • Visit Kerala Promotion at London Event

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    The adage says where ever you go, there will be a Malayalee. The international yoga celebrations in London was marked with the presence of a team of Malayalees who promotes their home state Kerala and its traditional mouth-watering food items. The team, under the leadership of veteran Keralite in London T Haridas, promoted the Visit…

  • Surrey restaurant among the UK’s best

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      One of Surrey’s most decorated Indian restaurants was celebrating its “biggest achievement to date” yesterday after being awarded two coveted AA Rosettes. Inspectors described India Dining, in Warlingham, as a “classy thoroughbred” that was a world-apart from usual Indian restaurants. The restaurant, a favourite with local celebrities, was said to possess a “wholly modern…

  • US set to ban artificial transfats

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    The use of partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs), the primary dietary source of artificial transfat in processed foods, must stop in three years, the US FDA has said. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said that PHOs are not “generally recognized as safe” for use in human food. Food manufacturers will have three years to remove…

  • Cobra to Combat Skilled Chef Shortage

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    Cobra Beer of Lord Bilimoria is launching a nationwide campaign to allow chefs from 7000 restaurants to share their skills with one another in an effort to combat the increasing shortage of skilled chefs. This initiative will be launched on Monday 15th June at the Cinnamon Kitchen in London, reports Asian Lite best newspaper for British…

  • Regional cuisines come to the fore

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    Global cuisine is only touching the tip. Increasingly, you’ll be seeing more and more of regional cuisines from specific regions of countries like China and France… India’s ace Chef Sanjay Thomas talks to Vishnu Makhijani  Regional cuisines and Indian fusion dishes will be the flavour of the coming year, as will the effort to wean…

  • Burgers rejects beef in India

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    By Durga Chakravarty   International burgers eating into India’s spicy street food market have bulged over the past decade. But the global chains, reluctant to pick bones with local laws and beliefs in the world’s second most populous nation, are staying off beef and pork as they clash for a larger slice of the country’s succulent…

  • Punjabi menu goes down South

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     A moonlit roof-top restaurant, a gently caressing evening breeze, twinkling stars above and a starry-eyed loved one in front: all that is left to look forward to is, of course, good food. And if the food is from a different region, then there is nothing like it to wind up a busy, hot summer day…

  • Bengali zamindari cuisine @ Chennai

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    By Venkatachari Jagannathan  One of the unique aspects of Bengali cuisine, apart from the use of mustard oil, is that sugar is added to most of the dishes to balance the taste, a top chef from the five-star Taj Bengal said. “While the use of mustard oil in Bengali cuisine is a well-known aspect, adding…

  • Jalebi, Imarti world record in Mumbai

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     Mumbai’s Saatvik food restaurant Sanskriti has broken the Guinness World Record for the largest imarti (a sweetmeat) in the world. It has also surpassed the Limca Book of Records. With support from celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor, Sanskriti broke the Guinness World Record for the largest imarti in the world on May 2 in the Indian…

  • Forgotten joys of homemade sweets

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    By Radhika Bhirani   Bhavna Lamba, 28, has fond memories of her mother and grandmother in a kitchen bustling with the sound of the utensils and emanating an intoxicating fragrance of sweet gujiyas and salty mathhis before Holi every year. Alas, she neither has the time nor the patience to cook such homemade delights. Quicker solutions…

  • Curry is King in Britain

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    By Natalia Ningthoujam She comes from a family of chefs and co-owns Southall-based Brilliant Restaurant that specialises in Punjabi cooking with a Kenyan twist. Dipna Anand, a London-based Indian chef, says the city has welcomed Indian curries with open arms. “Indian cuisine is pretty big in the UK. So much so that the national dish,…

  • Korma, kheer and kismet

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    By Somrita Ghosh When Scottish journalist Pamela Timms came to India in 2005 with her husband and her three children it was meant to be a short trip for her. But they settled down in Delhi, where her husband is now the South Asia editor of London’s Telegraph newspaper. Desperately seeking a way out from…

  • Finger licking Southeast Asian cuisine

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    By Maybhushan Nagvenkar  A small part of the world fits into a bowl at a pan-Asian eatery in this Goa capital which offers a unique make-it-yourself meal experience. The Pan Asian Bowl offers foodies an opportunity to savour a wide range of Southeast Asian and East cuisine like Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Chinese and the like…

  • Mughali cuisine comes alive in Old Delhi

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    By Somrita Ghosh From eateries in the bylanes of the Walled City that evoke nostalgia to fancy restaurants that serve Japanese Sushi to Mexican salads, Delhi is a foodie’s paradise. But when it comes to savouring authentic Mughlai food, nothing can compete with Old Delhi and its charm. A paradise for lovers of non-vegetarian food,…

  • Age healthy with Mediterranean diet

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    Researchers have found that women who eat a Mediterranean diet can keep age-related diseases at bay and live longer than others. The Mediterranean diet is rich in fruits, vegetables, fish, legumes and heart-healthy fats and greater adherence to such a diet is associated with longer telomeres, the biomarkers of ageing, the findings showed. “To our…

  • Cakes with Indian flavours

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    Whether it’s a simple mint chutney or a complicated recipe, Chetna Makan who took the audience of the Great British Bake Off 2014 by surprise every time she entered the show, finds baking a perfect outlet for her creativity. Trained as a fashion designer in Mumbai, Chetna—a mother of two—moved to Broadstairs in Kent a…

  • BBC Mughlai veg biryanis!

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    By Quaid Najmi  It was left to a pure vegetarian Gujarati family in Mumbai to whip up and serve some of the most popular non-vegetarian Mughlai cuisine – specially their lipsmacking Chicken Biryani, Mutton Biryani and other varieties. The renowned Borivali Biryani Centre – or simply, BBC – started in 2002 as a small mobile…

  • Emotional ability training improves food choices

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    Learning to pay attention to your emotions could enhance the choices you make with regard to food, thereby helping you lose weight, says a new research. Emotional ability training improves food choices beyond a nutrition knowledge, the findings showed. “With a better understanding of how they feel and how to use emotions to make better…

  • Stage Set for Curry Awards

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    Tenth Anniversary award ceremony pays homage to the unsung heroes behind the UK’s favourite dish   The UK’s favourite cuisine will once again be celebrated at the milestone, tenth-anniversary British Curry Awards onMonday 1st December 2014. The industry at large, foodies, celebrities, MP’s and dignitaries will collectively pay homage to the nation’s finest curry restaurants…

  • Hungry Horse Sparks Menu Debate

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    Nutritionist slams leading pub chain for its unethical menu A burger containing 1966 calories, 98 per cent of a woman’s Guideline Daily Amount, has been launched by pub-restaurant chain Hungry Horse, prompting a nutritionist to question the ethics of the family-friendly organisation. The Double Donut Burger, launched as part of a brand-new Hungry Horse menu…

  • NRI activist wins prestigious US food award

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    Indian-American food justice activist Navina Khanna is one of the five winners of the prestigious James Beard Foundation Leadership awards for 2014, considered North America’s highest honour for food and beverage professionals. Khanna, Fellow at Movement Strategy Centre, has won the award “For her work as a food justice activist organizing across communities for equitable…

  • Discarded food Cafe opens in Bristol

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    A cafe opened this week in the English city of Bristol, dishing up meals made from thrown-away supermarket food rescued from waste skips. Discarded food from some of the city’s restaurants is also being recycled at Bristol’s newest eatery, Skipchen, a play on the word kitchen, Xinhua reported. Eager diners are happy to munch their…

  • It’s a double feast in Chennai

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    It’s a double feast for guests at the Ente Keralam chain of restaurants here – one for the belly and the other for the eyes. With the Onam festival beginning Saturday Ente Keralam has brought Ottamthullal dancer Pahuvil Gopinath as an added attraction along with the chef-cum-priest-ayurvedic doctor Unnikrishnan Namboodiri from Kerala to craft the…

  • Diet quality gap in the US

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     Diet quality gap between rich and poor widens in US Led by reduction in the consumption of trans fats, the quality of diet in the US has shown modest improvement in the last decade, but the gap in overall diet quality between the rich and the poor has widened, says a study. “The study provides…

  • Family dinner – Stressful?

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    Ishaq Mohin says even as benefits of home-cooked meals gain currency among parents, researchers have found that home cooking and family meals place a significant stress on many families – and are simply impossible for others “This idea of a home-cooked meal is appealing, but it is unrealistic for a lot of families,” said study…

  • A PLATEFUL OF NONSENSE?

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    Daily Dose by Bikram Vohra How it all began was the other night we were invited to this swank restaurant (sometimes it does happen) where the stewards have fake accents and are better dressed than you are and the menus are the size of hoardings and you could covert them into tents for a family…

  • Kerala ready for Onam Sadhya

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    Once again, the 26-dish ‘Onam sadya’ is set to be the common chord across Kerala’s homes, cutting across religious beliefs, as the Onam festivities are all set to begin. Onam is probably the only festival in Kerala which is celebrated cutting across caste, creed or religion. Historically it has been named the ‘harvest festival’ of…

  • The Curry Mile

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    Anjana Parikh met a highly qualified biologist with a demonstrable record of achievement and a former scientific researcher, who decided to change gears to convert Neha Garg Gupta  her hobby into a profession. Cooking is Neha Garg Gupta’s hobby, and when she came to the UK after marriage to Rajul, she too like many others started…

  • ‘Five Portions’ to lower death risk

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    Five daily portions of fruit, vegetables lower death risk Add a substantial amount of fruits and vegetables in your diet – at least five portions – and live your life disease free. According to a new study, higher consumption of fruits and vegetables is associated with a lower risk of mortality from all causes, particularly…

  • EID Recipe: Mumzy Stranger

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    Mumzy Stranger shares his kitchen experiences with Asian Lite   What type of food do you like to cook? I love cooking anything with chicken, lamb, fish you name it. I also like to experiment with what I cook too. So I’ll try out new ingredients in a typical dish like lamb korma. I’ll maybe…

  • EID RECIPE – Lubna Rafiq

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    Britain’s most sought after make up artist Lubna Rafiq shares her passion for cooking with Asian Lite What type of food do you like to cook? Healthy, fruity and non-greasy foods. I love cooking grilled fish; fruit chat and yoghurt based side dishes. What do you enjoy about cooking? I enjoy the satisfaction that my…

  • Meat scandal hits more cities

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    A suspect meat scandal in China engulfed Starbucks and Burger King on Tuesday and spread to Japan where McDonald’s said a Chinese supplier accused of selling expired beef and chicken had provided 20% of the meat in its chicken nuggets, The Guardian reported. As Chinese authorities expanded their investigation of the Shanghai-based company Husi Food,…

  • Masala Library arrives in Dubai

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    Venkatachari Jagannathan says Masala Library is opening branches in Dubai, London and New York   Come August and Masala Library by Jiggs Kalra, the legendary Indian foodie’s maiden foray overseas, is set to begin commercial operations at Dubai’s Radisson Royal Hotel, a top company official said. It’ll serve up pan-Indian food with an Arabic twist. Zorawar Kalra,…

  • Kerala Newsletter by Sanu George

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    Sanu George from Thiruvananthapuram reports that thattu dosha, omplate: the latest fad in Kerala street food Ever heard of combining a dosa and an omlette? Welcome to the steaming hot thattu dosha and omplate, the latest fad in Kerala street food. And, it’s a complete meal – for all of Rs.25! Put this to changing times…

  • Water can stem child obesity

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    A group of nutritional scientists said children should be given only water to drink with meals to help tackle the obesity crisis, BBC reported. The experts said sugary drinks were empty calories and people had got “out of the habit of drinking water” with meals. The call comes as Public Health England prepares to publish its…

  • Sanjaya Rajaram wins World Food Prize

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    Eminent Indian plant scientist, Dr. Sanjaya Rajaram, has been named winner of the 2014 World Food Prize in recognition of his outstanding work in the improvement of wheat crop. Rajaram, who is now settled in Mexico, is credited with increasing world wheat production by more than 200 million tons in the years following the Green…

  • Indian Street food at East End

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    Indi.go launched a new branch of its street for eatery in at the cultural heart of London’s East End. The launch party was attended professionals and celebrities  including singer Leo ‘ The Lion’ lhenacho, TV personality Josh Smith, comedian Salman Malik, alongside Munsur Ali, Photographer Monir Ali, Dilruba Yasmeen Ruhee, Hassan Khan and Ashanti Omaker. Guests…

  • White bread does boost ‘good’ gut bacteria

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    This evening when you go to your neighbourhood store to buy groceries, add the much-maligned white bread to your list. According to research, white bread helps encourage some of our body’s most helpful inhabitants – beneficial gut bacteria – to grow. Several studies have looked at the effects of individual fibres and probiotics. But few…

  • Sweets and Soccer

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    Sweets prepared on the model of FIFA World Cup and football playing country flags on display at a sweet shop in Kolkata.

  • Beckham plans restaurant chain in US

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    Former England football captain David Beckham could soon be launching his own restaurant chain. The 39-year old is likely to call it – Beckham’s Bistro. “It’s got a good ring to it. It will be about dining. I’m a foodie and dining is a big part of this,” dailystar.co.uk quoted Beckham as saying. The US…

  • Maaplai! Moplah feast

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    She may be 80-years-old, but Ummi Abdulla, an expert in Kerala’s Moplah cuisine, is still busy writing recipe books and anchoring food festivals in Chennai and Bangalore. “I am now working on a cook book listing out 50 types of Puttu. I have already completed two books – one each in Malayalam and English. The…