Eid recipes

After the austerity of the month-long fasting of Ramadan, cooking for Eid highlights all that’s good and great about the Islamic kitchen. Add glitz to your celebrations with recipes from celebrity chefs such as Madhur Jaffrey, Tamsin Day-Lewis and Silvana Franco.

  • Baklava From Simone Lester, a reduced-sugar version of this classic Middle Eastern dessert, and just as delicious
  • Chicken Charmoula Fragrant toasted spices, olives and preserved lemons make Tamasin Day-Lewis's Moroccan-style chicken a dish to be savoured
  • Chicken Rendang A richly flavoured Indonesian curry from Nancy Lam, seasoned with a wonderfully fragrant mix of exotic spices, coconut, lemon grass and lime leaves.
  • Gulabi Phirni From La Porte des Indes Restaurant, an ambrosial milk pudding scented with roses and fragrant basmati rice
  • Kashmiri Meatballs Madhur Jaffrey's sausage-shaped 'meatballs' taste very Kashmiri in their blend of flavours
  • Labne (Yogurt Cheese) Add Middle Eastern touch to your picnic with Silvana Franco's simple recipe for a tasty, home-made yogurt cheese
  • Lamb and Rice Casserole Madhur Jaffrey's flavoursome lamb biryani is studded with onions, sultanas and almonds and topped with hard boiled eggs
  • Lamb with Spinach Spiced cubes of lamb are delicious in Madhur Jaffrey's yogurt-enriched spinach sauce