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Ravinder Bhogal

Roast chicken, cheesy scones and a genius cocktail: Ravinder Bhogal’s recipes for cooking with lime pickle

Ravinder Bhogal's lime pickle roast chicken.
Ravinder Bhogal’s lime pickle roast chicken: ‘as addictive as peri peri chicken.’ Photograph: Issy Croker/The Guardian. Food styling: Kitty Coles. Prop styling: Florence Blair. Food styling assistant: Sunita Parsons-Solomon.

I’m obsessed with lime pickle. It’s savoury, sour, funky, spicy and full of bold personality that enlivens anything it’s smeared on. It’s made by salting and fermenting limes with chillies and spices for a fierce, flavour-packed condiment that’s traditionally eaten as a side to poppadoms or with simple dal and rice. Over the years, I have also folded it into grilled cheese toasties, marinades for fat prawns to barbecue in the summer or made compound butters with it to smother over sweet potatoes before roasting. It’s an instant flavour bomb and my pantry is never without a jar.

Lime pickle roast chicken (pictured top)

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