I’m not a huge fan of salmon. It’s a fish that I have repeatedly been fed, urged to eat, only to keep walking away underwhelmed. After going through a dozen recipes over the past 15 years, I finally found a variation that I love. It’s from one of my favorite cookbooks, Madhur Jaffrey’s Ultimate Curry Bible. This Jaffrey’s own recipe in which she melds techniques from Bengal and Goa. She likes to make this for dinner parties because you can make poaching sauce a day in advance, and the cooking process requires minimal supervision. I love it because it’s one of the very few salmon recipes that incorporates South Asian spices in a way that works. It’s great for a dinner party but also as a weeknight staple.
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