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Enter the Kitchen: Recipes, Heritage & Flavors From india & Around the World - Abby's Hearth
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Enter the Kitchen: Recipes, Heritage & Flavors From india & Around the World

Food always tells stories, long before we sit down to listen — from the spices grandma toasts to the dough mom kneads, and the recipes retold from one generation to the next. In our humble kitchen, our heritage and curiosity meet (think quaile moile or goose moile), inviting you to taste where we’ve come from – and where we might wander next.

East Indian Dinner Table

Discover the award-winning recipes that shaped our table — and the stories behind them. Browse our collection of traditional East Indian recipes, preserving the flavours, family traditions and culinary heritage of Mumbai’s East Indian community.

Fried Mullets next to lime, coriander and tomatoes.
Fried Mullets served with lime, coriander and tomatoes
Clear ginger wine in a glass next to a blue book.
Clear ginger wine
See the tiny hilsa fish eggs in the half eaten roe piece.
See the hundreds of tiny fish eggs
Add-in-the-chopped-potatoes-and-the-goat stomach-pieces to the curry - AbbysPlate.
Add in the vajri and chopped boiled potatoes
Duck Moile in a black vessel on a red platform.
Duck moile
Top view of prawns atwan curry.
Top view of prawns atwan curry
Beef tongue chilli fry in a beige earthen pot.
Say yes to offal? Don’t you love tongue chilli fry?

Indian Food

Crispy onion sirka in a white bowl.
Crispy onion sirka
Top view of Watermelon rind fries on a black plate with bowls of sauce and chuteny.
Serve the Watermelon Rind Fries with sauce and chutney
Corn and cabbage sabzi (veggies) in a black pot.
Corn and cabbage bhaji
Picture of Mustard Paste.
Home-made Mustard Paste Recipe
Tasty fried paneer is ready to serve from the pan.
Fried paneer is tasty

Food from Around the World

Romany Cream with melted chocolate filing on a wooden platform.
Romany Creams are stuck together with melted chocolate
Dal Bhat Tarkari in a thali on a blue table mat.
Dal Bhat Tarkari

Comfort Food

Baked pie cut open on a white plate.
Irish pot pie made with leftover stew
Pickled green garlic in a white bowl.
Pickled green garlic or laba garlic
The Chinese Malatang soup in a bowl.
Malatang – a type of make your own Chinese soup
Tasty South African Oxtail Stew is served.
Tasty South African Oxtail Stew

Let’s Bake

Three tartlets on a black tray.
Pretty little baskets called tartlets
Delicious veg mango cheesecake topped with cherries.
Mango Cheesecake made with paneer
Pink and white valentines day cookies shaped like roses.
Rose shaped cookies for Valentines day or Mother’s Day
A coconut cake log and a coconut cake slice on a black plate.
Homemade coconut cake is dense and moist

Homemade Wines and Liqueurs

Fish and Roe

Offal, Nose to Tail

More Everyday Favourites

East Indian Christmas and Festive Sweets

Bring East Indian Heritage Home

The recipes that shaped our family table are preserved in my internationally awarded cookbook — created to honor East Indian culinary heritage in depth, detail, and story.

Winner of the Gourmand Award for Best Indigenous People Cookbook in the World. Available in full-color Deluxe Edition.

Explore the Award-Winning Edition