Recipes by Evelyn Adlam

Slow-cooked pork in banana leaves

Cooking the pork in smoked banana leaves gives the dish an unbelievable flavour.

Mussels in chilli and avocado sauce

Sweet potato and fish pie

Using sweet potato instead of ordinary potatoes gives this dish an exotic take.

Fattoush salad

My daughter who now lives in Cairo gave me this recipe, which I greatly adore!

Avocado, melon and bean salad

It is a very refreshing salad which combines ingredients from Africa and the Latin America

Luwombo of beef with Mexican mole sauce

This classic Ugandan dish is cooked in a smoked banana leaf (luwombo), but here it is given a Mexican twist,…