Two Michelin stars are all very well, but they don’t help much when you’ve got eight chicken legs, a bag of rice and people coming for dinner. Fortunately, Aktar Islam knows his way around both ends of the cooking spectrum.
At Opheem in Birmingham, the chef has earned two Michelin stars for his inventive approach to Indian cooking. But he’s also the man behind Aktar at Home, the nationwide recipe-box business born during lockdown, when he decided that people deserved something better than the usual disappointing takeaway. It turns out restaurant-quality Indian food doesn’t always require a restaurant.
