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Yasmin Khan

Yasmin Khan is a food writer and author with a special focus on the middle east

January 2023

  • Pumpkin and cardamom soup, Ripe Figs, Yasmin Khan

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    Pumpkin and cardamom soup recipe by Yasmin Khan

    Enriched with coconut milk and the headiness of cardamom, this soup soothes and comforts beyond measure

July 2022

  • Fish kebabs with skordalia, Ripe Figs, Yasmin Khan

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    Yasmin Khan’s recipe for fish kebabs with skordalia

    This dish brings together flavours of a garlicky Greek potato sauce and a spiced Turkish fish marinade

May 2022

  • Sunshine salad
Ripe Figs, Yasmin Khan

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    Yasmin Khan’s recipe for sunshine salad

    Inspired by the bounty of Cyprus’s summer produce, creamy avocado, sweet cherry tomatoes and halloumi cheese combine to make sunshine on a plate

January 2022

  • Lentils with preserved lemons and zhoug Yasmin Khan Photography and prop styling: Kate Whitaker Food styling: Jules Mercer 20 Best Easy Dinners Observer Food Monthly OFM

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    Yasmin Khan’s recipe for lentils with preserved lemons and zhoug

    Inspired by a conversation with a Yemeni refugee in Lesbos, this flavoursome dish is satisfying and comforting

September 2021

  • Herb & paprika chicken
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Photography and prop styling: Romas Foord
Food styling: Henrietta Clancy
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    Yasmin Khan’s recipe for herb and paprika chicken

    Served with a mustardy salad and orzo, you can’t go wrong with this chicken marinated in Mediterranean herbs and spices

July 2021

  • Vegetable moussaka.

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    Yasmin Khan’s vegetable moussaka

    A classic dish (minus the meat) that brings back memories of a holiday in Cyprus

April 2021

  • Yasmin Khan, left, with chefs from the Home for All community centre which provides free meals to refugees on Lesbos.

    The meal that takes me back to Lesbos – plus the recipe

    For the cookbook author, this pomegranate chicken dish tells the story of migration and the refugees she spent time with on the Greek island

September 2019

  • Best ever mushrooms on toast by Simon Hopkinson. Food and prop styling by Polly Webb-Wilson

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    20 best easy autumn recipes: part 1

    Anna Jones’s apple and pear crisp and Claudia Roden’s tagliatelle – our favourite recipes for when the nights draw in

August 2019

  • Jack Monroe is a British food writer, journalist and activist known for campaigning on poverty issues, particularly hunger relief.

    Chefs' secret ingredients: turn dinner from basic to brilliant

    Seaweed, trotters, charcoal and even a bit of boiled potato – chefs and food writers on what they add to dinner to make it extra special

September 2018

  • Claudia Roden's kitchen
Claudia Roden shot for OFM

    The cook's cook
    How Claudia Roden made Middle Eastern food commonplace

    The cook’s cook The pioneering author blazed a trail with a style that transported readers to Persian bazaars and Moroccan souks

July 2018

  • Pomegranate Cake 18 (3198f0b8f274b8724372111f93bc3e4216e27128)

    Yasmin Khan’s Palestinian recipes: hummus, kefte and pomegranate cake

    With her new cookbook, Zaitoun, Yasmin Khan shines a light on Palestine and its people. Plus seven recipes from the book