I must admit to having cheated!. I wanted to make this curney at the last minute, and did not have pumpkin seeds. What I did have were sunflower seeds. So I did a quick substitution and was very happy with the chutney. Pumpkin is an important ingredient in the Meghalaya household, and has been cultivated for centuries. First, pumpkin is always part of the house vegetable patch, with vines crawling everywhere and fat pumpkins waiting to be picked. It is an immediate source of

I followed this recipe from the cookbook, but added the spaghetti to give the dish some volume. Mushrooms are not native to the Arab world and are a new introduction to their cuisine brought about by modern infrastructure. This salad, though, plays with traditional flavours with modern ingredients. The salad is wonderful and light. I chose to use oyster mushrooms; they are now easily available in India, and I love their subtle flavour. They add an earthiness to the salad that

This is a light summer salad perfectly paired with roasted meats. The richness of the fatty meats is cut by this light salad, which also adds a wonderful crunch. This salad is also wonderful on the mezze table, its lightness cutting through the richer dishes and small fried plates. The freshness of the cucumbers is balanced by the basil's earthiness, and the dish finishes with a pop of tartness from the lime juice. It is a wonderful summer cooling dish. The Turkish Cookbook i