Cuisine

Bacon, carrot, butterbean and coriander soup
Comfort food doesn’t get heartier than this

Vivek Singh’s Uttapam (rice flour pancakes) with geen coconut chutney and sambhar
Ensure that the Uttapam mixture is not too thinly spread when cooking in the pan

Pan-fried sea bass with echalion herb butter sauce
That’s shallot …actually, it’s an echalion, a cross between an onion and a shallot that brings out the best in a host of recipes

Atul Kochhar’s Prawn Basil
Don’t be put off by the amount of ingredients; you only need a little of most of them and the results will be worth it in the end

Treacle tart
The tart case is always tricky to make the first time, but practice will make perfect. Any leftover pastry dough can be frozen and reused