Secrets of the Curry Kitchen

Chef Asma Khan celebrates being a patient cook with slow cooked kosha mangsho, a divine duck bhuna, veg filled parathas and an incredible dessert.

Chef Asma Khan shares the secret recipes and history of the most popular dishes at her critically acclaimed Indian restaurant, Darjeeling Express.

Chef Asma Khan's recipes are inspired by Kolkata's Chinatown. They include chicken, chilli steak with spicy mash and mouthwatering Tangra prawns.

Chef Asma Khan showcases the beauty of Indian desserts, with fragrant kheer, a spiced bread and butter pudding, a chocolate treat and banana fritters.

Rice and bread dishes are popular, especially the aloo paratha. Asma Kahn cooks prawn biryani, friendship rotis made to share and a syrupy sweet.

Chef Asma Khan celebrates herbs and marinades. Fenugreek methi chicken, the hariyali baked version, and mouth-watering tamarind prawns.

Chef Asma Khan makes spiced Kabab Burgers, crispy monsoon pakoras, flavourful koftas and indulgent chilli cheese toasties - perfect sumptuous snacks.

Chef Asma Khan celebrates vegetables with Shimla mirch paneer, 9 jewel korma, pumpkin niramish and a delicious watermelon curry - a feast of spices.

Chef Asma Khan celebrates the joy of street food, featuring chicken momos, potato and sweetcorn patties, lamb 'jali' kabab and paneer skewers.

Asma loves cooking Bengali influenced food. On the menu is her mother's prawn malaikari, an omelette curry, a rich fish curry, and a coconut dessert.