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by Greg Couillard
Mogul Chowder
Fabulously wealthy from the spice trade, and flush with the abundant produce of the subcontinent, the refined courts of the Mogul Empire were home to a fabulously luxurious cuisine. This complex and layered curried squash and leek chowder is rich with coconut cream and finished with roasted corn and cilantro.
Golden Shwedagon Kumquat Chili Roasted Chicken
Once a very remote kingdom, Burma became a source of incredible wealth for its British colonizers, producing copious spices, rubies, timber and more. The colonial capital Rangoon is famous for its immense gilded Buddhist shrines like the Shwedagon pagoda. The glinting golden colour, and the exotic fragrance of fresh kumquats (aromatic miniature oranges originating from China) inspires this spicy roast chicken dish.
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Goan Crazy Vegetable Curry
Goa, an ancient city on the West coast of India that became a Portuguese trading outpost was home to a remarkably multicultural population, including the largest community of Sephardic jews in India, and developed many unique dishes as a result. This fragrant curry’s ingredients — chickpeas, eggplant, red pepper, yam and tomato — would be as at home in the Mediterranean as they were in South Asia.
Both dishes are served with stir-fried yu choy mustard greens and jasmine rice.
Finger Banoffee Cake
Tropical date and banana palms inspire this dark & sticky “toffee pudding” — rich spiced date cake glazed with a salted caramel sauce — topped with miniature finger bananas.
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Contains wheat, dairy
