Recipes from Asia, Africa and the Middle East, inspired by Ravinder Bhogal's mixed heritage and the kitchens she grew up in.
Jikoni means 'home kitchen' in Swahili, a word that perfectly captures Ravinder Bhogal's approach to food. She was born in Kenya to Indian parents and when she moved to London as a child, the cooking of her new home collided with a heritage that crossed continents.
What materialised was a playful approach to the world's larder. Ravinder's recipes have a rebellious soul, they are lawless concoctions that draw their influences from one nation and then another o Lamb Wellington with feta, pine nuts and sumac; Asian mushroom ragout with sweet potato gnocchi; Mango doughnuts with lime leaf sherbet; utterly irresistible Banana cake with miso butterscotch and Ovaltine kulfi. And woven throughout are evocative stories from a past that illustrate the powerful relationship between food and identity.
This is a book of proudly inauthentic recipes that might loosely be called 'immigrant cuisine'- sophisticated, heavenly food that's unlike anything you've tried before.
