Articles and recipes

  • Kid-friendly keema and crumble

    Vittles | April 2025

  • The midnight kitchen

    Borough Market | April 2024

  • RECIPE: Tandoori salmon

    Borough Market | April 2024

  • RECIPE: Chicken pakoras

    Borough Market | April 2024

  • Date nights

    Borough Market | March 2024

  • RECIPE: Chocolate and date truffles

    Borough Market | March 2024

  • RECIPE: Aromatic bean and noodle soup

    Borough Market | March 2024

  • The festive joy of seasonal eating

    Hyphen | November 2023

  • The nostalgia of imperfection

    Hyphen | October 2023

  • Soul preserves

    Hyphen | September 2023

  • When eating is healing

    Hyphen | August 2023

  • Everything tastes better outside

    Hyphen | July 2023

  • ‘It’s not just the food we missed’

    Observer Food Monthly | July 2023

  • Party tips for Eid and beyond

    Hyphen | June 2023

  • The changing faces of desi brunch

    Hyphen | May 2023

  • The simple pleasure of a good kitchen gadget

    Hyphen | April 2023

  • Fasting comes in many different flavours

    Hyphen | March 2023

  • Handing down the family secrets – one dish at a time

    Observer Food Monthly | March 2023

  • Food of love

    Hyphen | February 2023

  • Here’s how to meal prep your way to a healthier 2023

    Hyphen | January 2023

  • Happy halal holidays

    Hyphen | December 2022

  • Tea, coffee? Both, please

    Hyphen | November 2022

  • Growing back to our roots

    Hyphen | October 2022

  • Who needs cutlery anyway? Why food is more delicious when you eat with your hands

    Observer Food Monthly | September 2022

  • Sharing snacks is good for the soul

    Hyphen | September 2022

  • Store cupboard love

    Hyphen | August 2022

  • Eid al-Adha is a time to share and remember where our food comes from

    Hyphen | July 2022

  • Easy, like a Sunday roast

    Hyphen | June 2022

  • ‘Our gateway to British food and culture’: the nostalgic power of the school dinner

    Observer Food Monthly | March 2022

  • Liz Truss supports Britons to go and fight for Ukraine – while removing citizenship of others

    Media Diversified | February 2022

  • Food, faith and family: how we feed our son his rich mixed heritage

    Observer Food Monthly | September 2021

  • Life lessons from my grandparents' kitchen

    Observer Food Monthly | July 2020

  • Writing Britain Now: recording family histories

    Wasafiri Magazine | April 2020

  • 'History is what matters, not stories'

    Burnt Roti | April 2020

  • Curry & Kneidlach: a tale of two immigrant families

    1dish4theroad | November 2019

  • Children of immigrants are never quite British 'enough'

    Media Diversified | February 2019

  • Is segregation the solution to Oxbridge's diversity issue?

    Media Diversified | January 2019

  • Fighting for space in God's house

    sister-hood magazine | September 2018

  • Where is your home?

    sister-hood magazine | March 2018

  • Migration & marriage: women of colour and the politics of surnames

    Media Diversified | February 2018