I Scream, You Scream, Please Scream Inside Your Heart for Ice Cream (with Nadiya Hussain)
Jul 22, 2020
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Nadiya Hussain, Great British Bake-Off winner, shares her family's chicken korma recipe. The hosts discuss their culinary experiments, ice cream dreams, and setting up Samin with a potential partner. They also talk about cheesy crackers, using cornmeal, and making a chicken corma dish with slow-cooking and whole spices.
Nadiya Hussain shares her family recipe for chicken korma that involves cooking the onions gently for hours and letting the flavors develop over time to create a creamy and flavorful dish.
Samin Nosrat suggests making cheesy crackers with surplus cornmeal and using pecorino cheese for a frico, and recommends experimenting with different types of vinegar in cooking to add acidity and variety to dishes.
Samin advises using a combination of whole egg, one egg yolk, full-fat milk, and potentially higher gluten flour to achieve a chewier texture in making frisuelos, a type of chewy crepe.
Deep dives
The importance of family recipes
Nadia talks about her family recipe for chicken korma that brings her kids joy. The dish is made with ghee, whole spices, garlic, ginger, onion, chicken, and boiled eggs. The process involves cooking the onions gently for hours and letting the flavors develop over time. The dish is left to sit in the fridge for a few days to enhance the flavors. The result is a creamy and flavorful chicken korma that her kids love.
Using up a surplus of ingredients
Jacinta asks for ideas on using up a surplus of cornmeal, while Brice wonders what to do with a large wheel of pecorino cheese. Samin suggests making cheesy crackers with the cornmeal and using the pecorino for a frico, a baked cheese snack. Samin also recommends expanding the types of vinegar used in cooking to add acidity and variety to dishes.
Solving a cooking mystery
Jacinta asks about making frisuelos, a type of chewy crepe, but is struggling to achieve the desired texture. Samin suggests whipping together one whole egg and one egg yolk, using full-fat milk, and potentially using a higher gluten flour to make the crepes chewier. She advises against resting the batter, as it would make them less chewy.
Samina Nasrat dating?
Samin reveals that she is open to finding a romantic partner and encourages listeners to send applications to be her special someone. She jokingly refers to it as Samin Nasrat, Chef Detective.
Tradition and innovation in family cooking
Samin and Nadia discuss the balance between preserving family recipes and adapting them to modern tastes. Nadia shares her frustration with her father's versions of traditional dishes, while Samin emphasizes the importance of simplicity and the use of whole spices in traditional cooking. Both chefs encourage experimentation and personalization in family cooking.
The wonderful Nadiya Hussain (@nadiyajhussain), Great British Bake-Off winner and host of Netflix’s “Nadiya’s Time to Eat,” joins us to tell us about her family’s chicken korma recipe. Samin melts Hrishi’s dreams of starting an ice cream parlor, and Hrishi mortifies Samin with a request for a new kind of email submission.