The Family Cookbook
Every recipe has travelled through time before finding its way here.
Choose a recipe
Stories from family kitchens
These are the first pages of the OPR cookbook: recipes shared with love, and the memories that make them matter.
The cookbook is growing
These are the first 5 family recipes to find their place in the OPR cookbook. Have a recipe waiting in a drawer, notebook or memory? Help write the next page.
OPR Recipe of the Month
Which recipe should take the table this August?
Choose the family recipe you would most like to cook. The winning story becomes OPR's Recipe of the Month.
One vote per person each month.
Dessert
Nana Serb's Sunday Rice Pudding
Birmingham, England
Main
Dave's Butter Chicken
New Malden, England
Main
Barbara's Beef Casserole
Swansea, Wales
Main
Krishna Anand's Baingan Ka Bharta
From the family kitchen
Main
Sudesh's Bhindi
From the OPR collection
5 recipes to discover
Main
Barbara's Beef Casserole
From the OPR collection · Swansea, Wales
“Barbara learnt this recipe from her mother, Pat, and made it her own by adding a tablespoon of Bovril. She always prepared it the day before because, as she put it, good things are worth waiting for. We still make it from her flour-dusted recipe book, and nobody is allowed to skip the extra gravy.”
Open recipe →
Main
Dave's Butter Chicken
From the OPR collection · New Malden, England
“I learned this from my Indian mother-in-law and tweaked it a little by replacing the tinned tomatoes with passata for a smoother, richer taste. I have cooked it in India for family and received their seal of approval — as well as my mother-in-law declaring that mine is better than hers now!”
Open recipe →
Main
Krishna Anand's Baingan Ka Bharta
From the OPR collection · From the family kitchen
“Once kept in a kitchen drawer, Krishna Anand's baingan ka bharta has been carefully translated so everyone can make it their own. Krishna was the late grandmother of OPR founder Chaten, and this smoky aubergine dish — with softly pink onions, tomatoes and fresh green chillies — carries her family story to every new table.”
Open recipe →
Main
Sudesh's Bhindi
From the OPR collection · From the OPR collection
“A simple bhindi masala built from the everyday flavours of onion, tomatoes, ginger and warming Indian spices. The okra is cooked first, gently and patiently, until its sliminess almost disappears, then folded through the masala. Sudesh loves it with warm roti and dal, though it is just as good with paratha or rice.”
Open recipe →
Dessert
Nana Serb's Sunday Rice Pudding
From the OPR collection · Birmingham, England
“Every Sunday after church, Nana Serb put this pudding in the oven before we sat down for lunch. By the time we reached dessert, the house smelled of vanilla and nutmeg. She never measured a thing — she simply knew. One spoonful still takes us straight back to her kitchen.”
Open recipe →Whet Our Appetite