At festivals the music often takes centre stage, but nowadays, the lineup of food is almost as vast. When dancing, camping and getting by on very little sleep, we all reach that pivotal point of ravenous hunger, and once it hits there&#8217;s just no shaking it. Packed full of guides and interviews with music talent and food truck vendors, our new franchise, The Hunger Stage, celebrates the sheer joy of food at festivals in all its messy, greasy glory. 
Last week, Taste Of London took over Regents Park, bringing the very best restaurants and food brands from the city together in one place.
And if you weren&#8217;t there, why not? With over 100 dishes from some of the biggest names in the game, from Geoff Leong&#8217;s Dumplings Legend to Misha Zelman&#8217;s Burger &amp; Lobster, the festival offered people a chance to try &#8216;special&#8217; restaurants they may not usually go to at an accessible price.
Chefs put out some of their most popular menu items as well as exclusive dishes created especially for lucky festival goers – and obviously we had to pop down and give as many of the dishes as possible a try.
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To crown a &#8216;best dish&#8217; at Taste Of London would be impossible (we wouldn&#8217;t have been able to check out them all if we had been there for the full five days), but we do wanna shout about a few standouts that caught our eye.
Innovative, bite-sized and most importantly, so damn delicious – here are some of Taste Of London 2022&#8217;s standout dishes.
<h2>Hache &#8211; Truffle Croissant Burger</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14888" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14888" style="width: 262px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14888" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21105810/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-11.57.44-262x300.jpg" alt="hache croissant truffle burger" width="262" height="300" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21105810/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-11.57.44-262x300.jpg 262w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21105810/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-11.57.44-893x1024.jpg 893w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21105810/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-11.57.44-768x881.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21105810/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-11.57.44.jpg 1048w" sizes="(max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14888" class="wp-caption-text">Hache&#8217;s Truffle Croissant Burger is a sight to behold (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
Yup, you read that correctly. Truffle. Croissant. Burger.
Drool.
This creation, from London burger joint, Hache, was awarded the festival&#8217;s most Instagrammable dish – and it&#8217;s not hard to see why.
A croissant stuffed with truffle mayo, gruyère, comté, steak and dijon mustard, with a cornichon for garnish, this just about defines luxury in every way you could imagine.
Mild, piney cheese with a buttery croissant is heaven in our books as it is, but turn that into a burger and you&#8217;ve got a real winner.
Bravo, Hache. Bravo.
<h2>Cin Cin &#8211; Sicilian Cazzilli Croquettes</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14891" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14891" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14891" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21111902/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-12.18.39-300x288.jpg" alt="cin cin italian croquettes taste of london" width="300" height="288" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21111902/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-12.18.39-300x288.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21111902/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-12.18.39-1024x982.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21111902/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-12.18.39-768x736.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21111902/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-12.18.39.jpg 1064w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14891" class="wp-caption-text">Taste Of London&#8217;s parsley and potato croquettes (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
With a spot in Hove and another in Fitzrovia, Cin Cin is one of the UK&#8217;s Italian crown jewels, so their Taste offering was never going to disappoint.
From chef Jamie Halsall, their MO is modern Italian fare with the freshest ingredients. Home-made pasta, antipasti, and simply cooked meat and fish.
And having originated from a food truck, it&#8217;s no wonder they brought their A-game to Regents Park.
Their crowing dish was the potato and parsley croquettes – an idea that sounds so basic and yet absolutely burst with flavour in a way on the best Italian food does.
They little balls were bright green on the inside, served with a zingy lemon dressing. Aesthetically pleasing and delicious? It&#8217;s a yes from us.
<h2>Santo Remedio &#8211; Baja Style Fish Tacos</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14900" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14900" style="width: 258px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14900" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21123144/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.31.00-258x300.jpg" alt="baja fish tacos taste of london santo remedio" width="258" height="300" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21123144/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.31.00-258x300.jpg 258w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21123144/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.31.00-880x1024.jpg 880w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21123144/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.31.00-768x893.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21123144/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.31.00.jpg 1090w" sizes="(max-width: 258px) 100vw, 258px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14900" class="wp-caption-text">Baja fish tacos are on the menu at Santo Remedio (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
If there&#8217;s one festival food you can always rely on its the humble taco, and Santo Remedio do them rather well.
The modern Mexican restaurant has quite a reputation in London, and for good reason. Santo Remedio means Holy Remedy, and that&#8217;s how we&#8217;d describe their Baja style fish tacos.
They serve a battered piece of fish with mojita mayo and slaw, laid onto a fresh corn tortilla.
Tuck into one of these when you have a sore head and you&#8217;ll instantly have a spring in your step.
<h2>Brindisa Kitchens &#8211; Christorra Pincho</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14899" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14899" style="width: 281px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14899" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21122801/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.27.38-281x300.jpg" alt="brindisa chorizo taste of london" width="281" height="300" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21122801/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.27.38-281x300.jpg 281w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21122801/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.27.38-959x1024.jpg 959w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21122801/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.27.38-768x820.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21122801/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.27.38.jpg 1066w" sizes="(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14899" class="wp-caption-text">Brindisa is proving Spanish tapas belongs on festival menus (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
Spanish tapas also makes great festival food: it&#8217;s compact, it&#8217;s bite-sized and easy to eat on the go.
Oh, and Brindisa is also here to show us that it&#8217;s rather delicious, too.
The restaurant has outposts all over London, but it brought three of its star dishes to Taste, and we had to snap a shot of the Christorra Pincho.
We mean, what a thing of beauty?
This is one for the meatheads. It&#8217;s basically deep-fried Chorizo drizzled in orange blossom honey, and it&#8217;s a regional speciality from north-east Spain.
Brindisa&#8217;s flavours never disappoint, but also imagine triumphantly walking back to your mates with one of these in your hand?
Take that, battered sausage.
<h2>Manthan &#8211; Pyaz Kachori</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14901" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14901" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14901" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21124604/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.45.51-300x261.png" alt="manthan mayfair taste of london" width="300" height="261" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21124604/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.45.51-300x261.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21124604/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.45.51-768x669.png 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21124604/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-13.45.51.png 918w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14901" class="wp-caption-text">Manthan Mayfair had some gems at Taste Of London too (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
This was awarded the &#8216;Best In Taste&#8217; award, and you only had to behold the queues outside Mayfair staple, Manthan&#8217;s stall to believe it&#8217;s worth the hype.
The smell of the Pyaz Kachori hit you as soon as you entered the tent, and then the bright colours lured you in.
The dish is essentially crispy puff pasty and stuffed onion topped with mixed sprouts, with a healthy dollop of pomegranate seeds to garnish.
This is the sort of festival food you want when you&#8217;re done with beige carbs and you need nutrients, like, yesterday.
Plus, Manthan is usually pretty premium, so trying one of their creations for just over a fiver is a pretty special opportunity.
<h2>Heritage &#8211; Brioche Banger Bun</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14903" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14903" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14903" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21130257/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.02.32-300x264.jpg" alt="hot dog raclette taste of london" width="300" height="264" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21130257/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.02.32-300x264.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21130257/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.02.32-768x676.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21130257/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.02.32.jpg 1016w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14903" class="wp-caption-text">Three words: Raclette. Brioche. Hotdog (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
Hertiage is all about celebrating the traditions of the Alpine region, but they&#8217;ve dialled everything up about ten notches.
We mean, look at this Brioche Banger Bun!
Made up of a hot dog, caramelised onions and pickles topped with a healthy dollop of Raclette cheese on top, this satisfies pretty much every craving you could have in one bite.
Pillowy bread? Check. Meat? Check? Lashings of cheese? Check.
We couldn&#8217;t be more obsessed.
<h2>Hoppers &#8211; Pulled Jackfruit Roti</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14906" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14906" style="width: 280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14906" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21131104/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.10.29-280x300.jpg" alt="hoppers pulled jackfruit roti" width="280" height="300" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21131104/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.10.29-280x300.jpg 280w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21131104/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.10.29-956x1024.jpg 956w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21131104/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.10.29-768x823.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21131104/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-14.10.29.jpg 1064w" sizes="(max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14906" class="wp-caption-text">Hoppers brought roti to taste of London (Credit: Twisted)</figcaption></figure>
Sri Lankan chain, Hoppers, was also at Taste of London and bringing what they do best. Roti.
The restaurant is known for its Dosas, Kothu, Rice &amp; Roasts, but when it comes to festival food, the roti is where it&#8217;s at.
Hoppers call their jackfruit roti a &#8220;Sri Lankan inspired taco of sorts&#8221;, but in truth it deserves its own moment to shine.
Flaky and melt-in-the-mouth, you&#8217;ll want to eat about 10 of these – and the curried jackfruit on top is meaty enough to convert any carnivore.

The Hunger Stage: Twisted's Pick Of Taste Of London's Most Mouthwatering Dishes

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These are Taste Of London 2022's very best dishes – as officially crowned by Twisted, for The Hunger Stage. 

Taste Of London: Twisted crowns the food festival's standout dishes

At festivals, the music often takes centre stage, but nowadays, the lineup of food is almost as vast. When dancing, camping and getting by on very little sleep, we all reach that pivotal point of ravenous hunger, and once it hits there&#8217;s just no shaking it. Packed full of guides and interviews with music talent and food truck vendors, our new franchise, The Hunger Stage, celebrates the sheer joy of food at festivals in all its messy, greasy glory. 
Anybody who has been to Glastonbury Festival will know that it&#8217;s a world unto itself. With over 800 food trucks dotted around 1,100 acres of land, the music is just part of the story at Worthy Farm, and the variety of food and drink on offer is enough reason in itself to make the trip down to Somerset.
As is always the case, those at Glasto-HQ are keeping tight-lipped about who is making the journey down to the festival site to feed us this year, in order to maintain element of surprise.
But we&#8217;re planners here at Twisted, and we just couldn&#8217;t wait to find out what we were going to be tucking into in the coming days. So, we&#8217;ve done some digging and got the tea on a few of the food stalls at Glastonbury 2022.
From Chinese grub to vegan fast food to mouthwatering Mexican – here are some of the best food vendors to look out for at this year&#8217;s festival.
<h2>Club Mexicana</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14811" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14811" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-14811 size-medium" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20110243/Untitled-design-85-2-300x156.png" alt="club mexicana glastonbury" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20110243/Untitled-design-85-2-300x156.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20110243/Untitled-design-85-2-1024x534.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20110243/Untitled-design-85-2-768x400.png 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20110243/Untitled-design-85-2.png 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14811" class="wp-caption-text">Club Mexicana is bringing banging vegan Mexican food to Glasto (Credit: Club Mexicana)</figcaption></figure>
If you haven&#8217;t heard us harping on about Club Mexicana before then where have you been? This plant-based Mexican stall isn&#8217;t just a pit-stop for those who don&#8217;t eat meat and dairy. If you like, bold, bright and punchy food inspired by the taquerias of Los Angeles and Mexico City, then this is the spot for you.
Look for a bright pink stall and a massive casino-style sign saying &#8216;VEGAN TACOS&#8217; and you&#8217;ll know you&#8217;re in the right place. Then, you can tuck into everything from burritos, tacos and nachos when the Hunger Stage hits.
Word of advice: don&#8217;t sleep on the Cheezburger tacos if they have &#8217;em – they&#8217;re a real game changer.
<h2>Only Jerkin</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14813" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14813" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14813" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20111129/Untitled-design-85-2-300x156.jpg" alt="glastonbury festival food only jerkin" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20111129/Untitled-design-85-2-300x156.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20111129/Untitled-design-85-2-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20111129/Untitled-design-85-2-768x400.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20111129/Untitled-design-85-2.jpg 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14813" class="wp-caption-text">Oh yes, that&#8217;s jerk gravy (Credit: Only Jerkin)</figcaption></figure>
Only Jerkin is also at Glastonbury, and well worth checking out.
Serving up fried chicken with Caribbean flavours, this food stall promises &#8220;lip smacking flavours and music&#8221; – what more could you ask for, ey?
Inspired by traditional family recipes which they&#8217;ve given a modern, street food twist, Only Jerkin marinate their chicken for 48 hours before triple dipping it in flour a signature batters (made with ginger beer and cream soda), and their offering is crispy and tender as a result.
Visit for their fried jerk chicken nuggets and we guarantee the optional jerk gravy will have you returning to this stall over and over again.
Yep, we just said jerk gravy. Don&#8217;t sleep on this joint.
<h2>Anna-Mae&#8217;s Mac N Cheese</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14815" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14815" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14815" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20112415/Untitled-design-85-3-300x156.jpg" alt="glastonbury food anna maes mac n cheese" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20112415/Untitled-design-85-3-300x156.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20112415/Untitled-design-85-3-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20112415/Untitled-design-85-3-768x400.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20112415/Untitled-design-85-3.jpg 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14815" class="wp-caption-text">Anna-Mae&#8217;s mac n cheese is a Glastonbury institution (Credit: Anna-Mae&#8217;s Mac N Cheese)</figcaption></figure>
Friend of Twisted, Anna-Mae needs no introduction. If you&#8217;ve not heard of her we can only assume you&#8217;re a festival novice, as she&#8217;s parked up at pretty much all of them every summer.
The idea for Anna-Mae&#8217;s stall came after she and her partner Tony fell in love with US BBQ food and the “cultural mish-mash” of flavours whilst travelling. They&#8217;re one of the first to bring American mac n cheese to the UK, and they&#8217;re damn good at it, too.
Expect fun twists on classic mac n cheese with quirky names to match. Some of their big hitters from the years gone by have been named after music legends, like The Annie Mac (a classic macaroni in a three-cheese sauce) and the Cheesye (formerly the Kanye Western, which is flavoured with additional smoked beef hotdog, BBQ sauce and crispy onion).
Let&#8217;s face it, there&#8217;s nothing more comforting than a big, rich, sloppy tub of mac n cheese when you reach the Hunger Stage. We&#8217;ll see you in the queue for this one.
<h2>Le Rac Shack</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14817" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14817" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14817" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20113336/Untitled-design-85-3-300x156.png" alt="glastonbury festival food le rac shack" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20113336/Untitled-design-85-3-300x156.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20113336/Untitled-design-85-3-1024x534.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20113336/Untitled-design-85-3-768x400.png 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20113336/Untitled-design-85-3.png 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14817" class="wp-caption-text">It doesn&#8217;t get fancier than a festival raclette (Credit: Le Rac Shack)</figcaption></figure>
You know a festival has good food on offer when there&#8217;s even a raclette stall. Sod the ski resort, get your fix of Alpine street food at Worthy Farm.
Serving the very best melted raclette cheese from Annecy, near Lake Geneva, dolloped onto fries or spuds, there&#8217;s very little that can go wrong with this festival food concept.
Whilst we don&#8217;t know this stall&#8217;s Glasto menu yet, they usually offer the option to add gravy, cornichons, jalapenos and french sausage or chorizo. Yum.
What better than a big &#8216;ol plate of carbs when your tummy starts to grumble?
<h2>Chip Off The Block</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14821" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14821" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14821" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20114608/Untitled-design-85-4-300x156.jpg" alt="glastonbury festival food cheesy chips" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20114608/Untitled-design-85-4-300x156.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20114608/Untitled-design-85-4-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20114608/Untitled-design-85-4-768x400.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20114608/Untitled-design-85-4.jpg 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14821" class="wp-caption-text">If you want cheesy chips, head to Chip Off The Block (Credit: Chip Off The Block)</figcaption></figure>
There&#8217;s a lot of competition on the chip front at Glastonbury, but trust us, these guys are up there.
Chip Off The Block serve triple cooked cheesy chips that are crispy on the outside and fluffy as can be on the inside, with two award winning Montgomery&#8217;s melty cheeses scattered on top.
We&#8217;ve had enough soggy festival chips in our lives to know that a dud batch can be bitterly disappointing – but trust us, these guys promise the absolute antithesis of that.
So, when you fancy a batch of chips done right, might we heartily suggest heading here?
<h2>Da Ja Street Food</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14823" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14823" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14823" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20115704/Untitled-design-85-4-300x156.png" alt="glastonbury festival food da ja street food" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20115704/Untitled-design-85-4-300x156.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20115704/Untitled-design-85-4-1024x534.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20115704/Untitled-design-85-4-768x400.png 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20115704/Untitled-design-85-4.png 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14823" class="wp-caption-text">Glastonbury is also welcoming Da Ja Street Food (Credit: Da Ja Street Food)</figcaption></figure>
Da Ja Street Food has also confirmed it will be pitching up at Glastonbury, offering up modern Asian flavours inspired by street food from the Far East.
Their festival menu is also under wraps ATM, but expect the likes of their Cantonese pork and prawn wonton parcels, halloumi fries with hot honey and the Konnichiwage dipping chicken burger.
Usually based in London, Da Ja is definitely one to check out if you&#8217;re at Worthy Farm this weekend – think all the best things about Asian food and fried chicken combined.
<h2>Dosa Deli</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14825" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14825" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14825" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120021/Untitled-design-85-5-300x156.jpg" alt="glastonbury festival food dosa deli" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120021/Untitled-design-85-5-300x156.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120021/Untitled-design-85-5-1024x534.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120021/Untitled-design-85-5-768x400.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20120021/Untitled-design-85-5.jpg 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14825" class="wp-caption-text">Dosa Deli is also parking up at Glasto this year (Credit: Dosa Deli)</figcaption></figure>
Dosa Deli have also confirmed they&#8217;re at Glasto this year, offering up the South Indian delicacy to the masses.
In case you haven&#8217;t tried them before, dosas are essentially Indian pancakes made of fermented lentil and rice batter, and these guys do them damn well.
This truck is 100% vegetarian, and has been known to serve everything from banging onion bhajis to masala dosa and even quirky alternatives, like cauli cheese filled pancakes.
This offering is sure to fill you up when the hunger stage hits – that&#8217;s if you manage to eat it before your mates get their greedy hands on it.
We imagine a dosa this delicious won&#8217;t be around for long&#8230;
<h2>Worthy Farm Reserve Toasties</h2>
<figure id="attachment_14833" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14833" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14833" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20134236/Untitled-design-86-300x156.png" alt="glastonbury festival food worthy farm cheddar toastie" width="300" height="156" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20134236/Untitled-design-86-300x156.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20134236/Untitled-design-86-1024x534.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20134236/Untitled-design-86-768x400.png 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/20134236/Untitled-design-86.png 1535w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14833" class="wp-caption-text">This year, Worthy Farm toasties will be on offer too (Credit: Glastonbury)</figcaption></figure>
If you really wanna get into the spirit of Glastonbury then why not grab a toastie made with their very own Worthy Farm Reserve cheddar?
You couldn&#8217;t get more on brand than that&#8230;
You may well have tried Glasto&#8217;s cheddar after picking it up in your local Co-op, and if you have you&#8217;ll know it&#8217;s the real deal, reared at Worthy Farm with the help of Somerset family cheesemakers, Wyke Farms.
So, jammed between two slices of bread we can pretty much guarantee these toasties won&#8217;t be one to miss. Eat like Michael Eavis and make sure you grab one of these when the hunger hits.

The Hunger Stage: The Best Food And Drink To Look Out For At Glastonbury Festival 

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Glastonbury festival's food and drink offering is arguably just as exciting as its music. Here's who we think you should look out for.

Glastonbury food stalls to visit: From Chinese food to Mac n Cheese

At festivals the music often takes centre stage, but nowadays, the lineup of food is almost as vast. When dancing, camping and getting by on very little sleep, we all reach that pivotal point of ravenous hunger, and once it hits there&#8217;s just no shaking it. Packed full of guides and interviews with music talent and food truck vendors, our new franchise, The Hunger Stage, celebrates the sheer joy of food at festivals in all its messy, greasy glory. 
Glastonbury Festival 2022 is finally here, after what has been a three year wait for some ticket-holders.
With the pandemic getting in the way not once but twice, it&#8217;s safe to say that people are chomping at the bit to get into Worthy Farm, dance to some music, eat some banging festival food and escape the mundane realities of everyday life.
But let&#8217;s face it, as well as all that, for many people festivals also feature a pretty substantial stash of booze, too.
So, we decided to create the ultimate Glastonbury drinking game for any Twisted readers who might be in attendance.
Oh, and drink responsibly (although, with the below criteria, we&#8217;re not sure how&#8230;)
<figure id="attachment_14930" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14930" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14930" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-300x200.jpg" alt="glastonbury drinking game" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-2048x1367.jpg 2048w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21160025/JGC9GY-1-1568x1046.jpg 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14930" class="wp-caption-text">Here&#8217;s Twisted&#8217;s Glasto drinking game (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
Twisted&#8216;s Glastonbury drinking game is a simple one. We&#8217;ve catalogued a selection of sights you&#8217;re likely to see at Glasto, as well as a few rarer finds.
Whatever your drink of choice is, simply do as instructed whenever you see one of the below.
We can guarantee you&#8217;ll be very jolly before you make it from your tent to the Pyramid Stage.
<h2>Have a sip when: </h2>
<h3>You see a toilet overflow </h3>
This one&#8217;s a given, folks. As wonderful as Glasto is, their toilets are infamous for being&#8230;well, shit.
As much as the folks at Worthy Farm clean them, the truth is that any festival loo would be looking a little sorry for itself after a six day stint, with over 200,000 people depending on them, daily.
So&#8230; yeah, enjoy taking a drink whenever you see an overflowing toilet (you might have to buy some more beers).
<figure id="attachment_14920" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14920" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14920" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151257/AW6N09-300x201.jpg" alt="glastonbury toilets" width="300" height="201" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151257/AW6N09-300x201.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151257/AW6N09-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151257/AW6N09-768x513.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151257/AW6N09.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14920" class="wp-caption-text">Glastonbury&#8217;s toilets are a legend unto themselves (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
<h3>Your mate breaks your camping chair</h3>
It happens every year, and yet we still shell out 20 quid for them. It&#8217;s a well known fact that camping chairs never last a festival.
And before someone breaks it, another mate will invariably steal it, too.
All the same, enjoy that five minutes of comfort you have when you first pitch up – and also enjoy a swig of your drink.
<h3>When you see a cup of mystery liquid being thrown</h3>
This is another given. It isn&#8217;t a festival until someone&#8217;s hurled their beer into the crowd in excitement as their favourite musician has come on.
Oh wait&#8230; that&#8217;s not beer&#8230;or is it?!
Either way, when this happens (several times), sip your drink.
<h3>You get lost looking for your tent </h3>
Listen, Glastonbury is around 900 acres, and there are over 100 stages.
However many times you&#8217;ve been and however rigorously you&#8217;ve marked out your map, we can pretty much guarantee you&#8217;re going to get lost.
When you do, you might as well take a drink&#8230; it&#8217;ll make the journey feel a little quicker.
<h3>An artist makes everyone put their phone torches on </h3>
Is it even possible to play an evening set at a festival without pulling this card?
Nope. So, when it happens, you know what to do.
<h3>You face-plant in the mud</h3>
This will probably happen before you even peg your tent down. Be prepared&#8230; have some tinnies in your bag to soften the blow.
<figure id="attachment_14921" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14921" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14921" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151517/BCXFXK-300x200.jpg" alt="glastonbury festival mud" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151517/BCXFXK-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151517/BCXFXK-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151517/BCXFXK-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151517/BCXFXK.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14921" class="wp-caption-text">Alright there, lads? (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
<h3>You see someone else face-plant in the mud </h3>
As above.
<h3>You pass a group of people in matching fancy dress</h3>
This one is also pretty darn likely. Maybe it&#8217;s the fact it&#8217;s an escape from reality, but nothing says Glastonbury quite like a gang of people in matching fancy dress.
Cowboy hats, penguin costumes, latex suits – you name it, you&#8217;ll probably see it.
And when you do, take a swig.
<h3>Chris Martin steps onto the Pyramid Stage</h3>
Let’s face it, Chris Martin should be paying Glastonbury rent by now. 
Not only has Coldplay headlined it four times, but he also stepped out and joined Stormzy during his headline gig in 2019 and supported Kylie Minogue during her legend slot the same year. 
<figure id="attachment_14922" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14922" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14922" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151821/C578FE-300x200.jpg" alt="chris martin glastonbury" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151821/C578FE-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151821/C578FE-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151821/C578FE-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21151821/C578FE.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14922" class="wp-caption-text">It wouldn&#8217;t be Glasto without Chris Martin (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
<h3><strong style="font-family: var(--heading--font-family); font-size: var(--heading--font-size-h2); letter-spacing: var(--heading--letter-spacing-h2); background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary);">Down your drink when: </h3>
<h3>You witness a proposal </h3>
Proposals aren&#8217;t uncommon at Glastonbury. We don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s the heaps of mud or the farmyard stench that gets people feeling all loved up, but several people pop the question at Worthy Farm every year.
In all seriousness, we think it&#8217;s incredibly cute to get down on one knee at Glasto.
But if you see a couple getting engaged, you&#8217;d better have a drink at the ready.
<h3>You find a secret bar</h3>
Glastonbury is infamous for its secret bars, from the underground piano bar to the rabbit hole.
They&#8217;re so secret that some of them move location year on year, and the Eavis family have even been known to frequent them.
But, every year, there are some people who set out to find them, scouring the tips and latching onto veterans for secret passwords.
If this is you, or even better, if you stumble across one, make sure to drink up (you&#8217;re at a bar, after all!).
<figure id="attachment_14923" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14923" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14923" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152312/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-16.22.50-300x199.jpg" alt="michael eavis glastonbury" width="300" height="199" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152312/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-16.22.50-300x199.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152312/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-16.22.50-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152312/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-16.22.50-768x510.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152312/Screenshot-2022-06-21-at-16.22.50.jpg 1496w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14923" class="wp-caption-text">Keep an eye out and you might see Michael Eavis grabbing a toastie (Credit: Glastonbury)</figcaption></figure>
<h3>You see Michael Eavis</h3>
Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has been known to pop up on the festival grounds whilst it&#8217;s going ahead, whether to listen to music or just to check everything&#8217;s running smoothly.
He might be whizzing about on a tractor or he could just be strolling the grounds, but if you catch a rare glimpse of the man himself then you know what to do&#8230;
<h3>You end up on the big screen for the BBC coverage </h3>
Picture this. You&#8217;re in the thick of the crowd, you&#8217;ve had one too many (largely as a result of this drinking game), then&#8230; BAM! There&#8217;s your face on the big screen of the Other Stage.
You could wave sheepishly, knowing mum and dad will undoubtedly be taping this moment at home, or you could down your drink.
Imagine the reception from the crowd! Choose option B.
<figure id="attachment_14924" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14924" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14924" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152446/DAH2A6-300x200.jpg" alt="glastonbury " width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152446/DAH2A6-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152446/DAH2A6-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152446/DAH2A6-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/21152446/DAH2A6.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14924" class="wp-caption-text">Have a happy Glasto! (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
Of course, we should say this drinking game is definitely to be taken with a pinch of salt, unless you want to spend half the festival sleeping off the booze in your tent.
Need to soak up some of that alcohol? You can also find our guide to Glastonbury&#8217;s festival food right here.

The Hunger Stage: Twisted's Great Big Glastonbury Drinking Game

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Twisted has compiled a Glastonbury 2022 drinking game to help whet your appetite when you arrive at Worthy Farm.

Glastonbury 2022: Twisted's great big festival drinking game

“The best thing since…” Sliced Bread is all about celebrating the hospitality industry&#8217;s new kids on the block, giving credit to those who have innovated, seized opportunities, changed the game, and overall just won. This Twisted franchise will shout about the unsung heroes of the food world; those who have staked their claims and made an impact, whether it&#8217;s because of incredible marketing, selfless action or simply their delicious food. If you don&#8217;t know them, you should&#8230;
Let us introduce you to <a style="background-color: var(--global--color-background); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);" href="https://www.instagram.com/twohotasians/">Two Hot Asians</a> – the hot sauce connoisseurs setting everyone’s lips ablaze.
Emily Yeoh, 42, and Ana Da Costa, 32, started their <a href="https://twistedfood.co.uk/7-weirdest-condiments-face-planet">condiment</a> business in lockdown, when, like many, Ana made the bold move to quit her day-job in operations, and Emily, who works as a freelance PR, decided to join her for the ride.
Offering up Chinese XO sauce and Malaysian Sambal made lovingly from their homes, the pair are adamant their condiments are “the only hot sauces you need in your life”.
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Sure enough, following their launch in 2021, it’s clear that many agreed, and it wasn’t long before their sauces became a hot topic on London’s food scene.
What sets them apart? For one, undeniably, authentic flavours; but also a common goal. Their mission isn’t just to create a damn good sauce, it’s to preserve a legacy.
“I was born in Macau,” Ana says, during an exclusive chat with Twisted, “and everything I can remember from being back home is being surrounded by food”.
Growing up with a Portuguese father, Gabriel Da Costa, and a Chinese mother, Mei Teng, Ana recalls just how important meal times were to her family.
<figure id="attachment_7625" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7625" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-7625 size-full" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25173837/Untitled-design-5-4.png" alt="ana da costa two hot asians" width="1200" height="800" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25173837/Untitled-design-5-4.png 1200w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25173837/Untitled-design-5-4-300x200.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25173837/Untitled-design-5-4-1024x683.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25173837/Untitled-design-5-4-768x512.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7625" class="wp-caption-text">Ana at the dinner table (left) and with her parents (right) (Credit: Ana Da Costa</figcaption></figure>
“My dad never spoke Cantonese or Mandarin,” she explains. “So whenever we went to visit my mum’s family, the only memories I have of the full family sitting together would be around a meal, because eating was almost like an international language, you know?
“They couldn’t understand him and he couldn’t understand them, but we would just be sitting eating Chinese food, which was lovely.”
One of the family’s favourite things to eat was Mei Teng’s XO sauce, which would regularly be used as a dip, or incorporated into Portuguese and Chinese dishes, like stir fries, dumplings and fried rice.
A sauce which originates from Hong Kong, it typically offers a lip-smacking hit of umami, and is made of chilli and “all the best stuff from the sea”.
“[A lot of Cantonese families] have a recipe for it, because you can buy XO sauce in the shops, but it’s not always good,” Ana says. “The best ones need loads of dried scallops and shrimp. That’s what makes it luxurious and extra special.
<figure id="attachment_7627" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7627" style="width: 940px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-7627 size-full" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174333/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-17.42.55.png" alt="xo sauce chinese two hot asians" width="940" height="1094" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174333/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-17.42.55.png 940w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174333/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-17.42.55-258x300.png 258w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174333/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-17.42.55-880x1024.png 880w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174333/Screenshot-2022-01-25-at-17.42.55-768x894.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 940px) 100vw, 940px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7627" class="wp-caption-text">Ana recreated her mother&#8217;s XO sauce, seen here is a first bottle (Credit: Instagram/ Two Hot Asians)</figcaption></figure>
“So, my mum always made it like this, and we always had a jar at home. I loved it”.
The sauce was so special to Ana that when she moved to England in 2008, she begun to smuggle it back every time she returned from family visits, and it became the condiment she would chuck on just about everything, from traditional Chinese dishes to western fare, like eggs and pasta.
<figure id="attachment_7628" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7628" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-7628 size-full" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174552/Untitled-design-5-5.png" alt="xo sauce scrambled egg porridge" width="1200" height="800" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174552/Untitled-design-5-5.png 1200w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174552/Untitled-design-5-5-300x200.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174552/Untitled-design-5-5-1024x683.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174552/Untitled-design-5-5-768x512.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7628" class="wp-caption-text">Ana enjoys her XO sauce on everything from porridge to scrambled eggs (Credit: Instagram/ Two Hot Asians)</figcaption></figure>
The sauce soon became infamous amongst her friends, too, who would ask Ana to sell her a bit whenever she got a new batch.
“At this point, I thought &#8216;why not make a business out of it?&#8217;” she laughs.
Then came Emily, and the rest is history.
The pair met through a friend and hit it off instantly, and like Ana, Emily had a catalogue of food memories she was eager to recreate, and a hot sauce recipe sat at the top of the pile.
<figure id="attachment_7633" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7633" style="width: 296px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-7633" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/26095945/Screenshot-2022-01-26-at-09.59.36-296x300.png" alt="two hot asians emily yeoh ana da costa" width="296" height="300" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/26095945/Screenshot-2022-01-26-at-09.59.36-296x300.png 296w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/26095945/Screenshot-2022-01-26-at-09.59.36-768x777.png 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/26095945/Screenshot-2022-01-26-at-09.59.36.png 974w" sizes="(max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7633" class="wp-caption-text">Emily and Ana bonded over shared food memories (Credit: Emily Yeoh)</figcaption></figure>
“My dad [Eddie Yeoh] was born in Penang, Malaysia, and he’s Chinese-Malay,” Emily says.
“So, my ancestors come from this little village in China somewhere, and my dad travelled the world before he met my mum [Sandra Yeoh], who&#8217;s English, and settled in London.”
Emily grew up in Soho’s Chinatown, and still fondly remembers the Eurasian mix of food her parents would serve her, as a result of her mixed heritage.
“My mum and dad both cooked, but my dad spent three years in Germany as a chef before he came here,” she says. “He would even come into my school and cook things. He loved it”.
<figure id="attachment_7629" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7629" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-7629 size-full" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174837/Untitled-design-5-6.png" alt="two hot asians" width="1200" height="800" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174837/Untitled-design-5-6.png 1200w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174837/Untitled-design-5-6-300x200.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174837/Untitled-design-5-6-1024x683.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25174837/Untitled-design-5-6-768x512.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7629" class="wp-caption-text">Emily&#8217;s family also inspired her Sambal sauce (Credit: Emily Yeoh)</figcaption></figure>
A Kung Fu instructor and a popular figure in Chinatown’s tight-knit community at the time, Emily recalls him knocking up Hainanese chicken rice and soya marinated chicken when she was young.
But more poignant is the memory she has of her dad preparing his Sambal sauce, which she’d enjoy with noodles, soups, rice, or “just about everything”, really.
“I would have it on my fried eggs on toast in the morning. I would even have it in a tuna mayo sandwich. It was just so addictive,” she says.
<figure id="attachment_7630" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7630" style="width: 1200px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-7630 size-full" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175105/Untitled-design-5-7.png" alt="two hot asians" width="1200" height="800" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175105/Untitled-design-5-7.png 1200w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175105/Untitled-design-5-7-300x200.png 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175105/Untitled-design-5-7-1024x683.png 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175105/Untitled-design-5-7-768x512.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7630" class="wp-caption-text">Papa Yeoh&#8217;s Sambal is a staple on &#8216;just about everything&#8217;, says Emily (Credit: Emily Yeoh)</figcaption></figure>
Like Ana, Emily became wedded to the idea of recreating the flavours her dad had refined in his Sambal.
The problem was, he always made his sauces freehand, using instinct rather than precise measurements.
Keen not to lose the recipe for the sauce she held dearest, she enlisted him to help her replicate his creation, made with chillies, keffir lime leaves, shrimp paste, ginger and onions.
“I really wanted to do something with it,” she says. “We would talk about it all the time. I&#8217;d be like, ‘Come on, let’s’, because my friends would always ask for it.”
Tragically, not long after Emily’s father shared his Sambal recipe, he passed away from cancer. Around the same time, Ana was also dealing with the sudden loss of her dad, Gabriel, following a pulmonary embolism.
<figure id="attachment_7631" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7631" style="width: 1758px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="wp-image-7631 size-full" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862.jpg" alt="two hot asians" width="1758" height="1366" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862.jpg 1758w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862-300x233.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862-1024x796.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862-768x597.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862-1536x1194.jpg 1536w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/25175227/IMG_3862-1568x1218.jpg 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 1758px) 100vw, 1758px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7631" class="wp-caption-text">Emily wanted to recreate the food memories of her childhood (Credit: Emily Yeoh)</figcaption></figure>
Looking back on the loss of their fathers, Emily and Ana acknowledge they bonded over a “shared trauma” and an understanding of each other’s grief, as well as the food memories they both attached to their loved ones – be it Eddie’s instinctive recipes, or the indulgent meals that Ana and Gabriel loved sharing together.
“We were talking about it…still grieving and going through all these emotions together,” Ana says. “And from that, we created this baby.”
“Yeah, we turned it into something positive,” adds Emily, with a smile.
Whilst Two Hot Asians is still a relatively new business, it’s opened up a world of possibilities for Emily and Ana, both of whom also have previous experience working within the food and drink space – Emily via her PR background and Ana due to her time working behind bars, in kitchens and in operations.
<figure id="attachment_14751" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14751" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14751" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17112248/Screenshot-2022-06-17-at-12.21.02-300x274.jpg" alt="two hot asians hot sauce" width="300" height="274" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17112248/Screenshot-2022-06-17-at-12.21.02-300x274.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17112248/Screenshot-2022-06-17-at-12.21.02-768x702.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17112248/Screenshot-2022-06-17-at-12.21.02.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14751" class="wp-caption-text">The most recent iteration of Ana and Emily&#8217;s sauces (Credit: Two Hot Asians)</figcaption></figure>
They’ve been welcomed into the fold of London’s food scene with open arms, and alongside pop-ups and supper clubs (including those with Supa Ya Ramen and Ling Lings), Emily and Ana are selling two main products: Papa Yeoh’s Sambal (in tribute to Eddie) and Mama Da Costa’s XO Sauce.
“It’s called Mama Da Costa because I wanted to honour both [of my parents],” explains Ana. “Da Costa is my dad’s surname, but also I want to show my mum that I look up to her, because she’s the strongest woman I know.”
Reflecting on the journey they’ve been on, Emily admits: “It can be quite emotional, especially when we first launched and I was making [my dad&#8217;s] sauce and he wasn’t around to see it.
“But I know he does see it. It brings back all kinds of emotions: happy memories, and sometimes sad ones. I hope he’s proud”.

Sliced Bread: Two Hot Asians Are Making Hot Sauce To Honour Their Dads

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Two Hot Asians' Anna Da Costa and Emily Yeoh share the family ties behind their hot sauce recipes, for Father's Day.

Two Hot Asians share the story behind their hot-sauces for Father's Day

When it comes to marking historical events, there&#8217;s no denying that food plays a very important role. It cements traditions, it&#8217;s steeped in symbolism and the very act of cooking and eating can be seen to honour generations gone by.
Perhaps no holiday exemplifies this quite as well as Juneteenth – a date which is widely honoured by Black Americans today, to commemorate when around 250,000 enslaved people from Galveston, Texas were truly freed.
<figure id="attachment_14785" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14785" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14785" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17142004/2FMHK9X-300x226.jpg" alt="juneteenth" width="300" height="226" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17142004/2FMHK9X-300x226.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17142004/2FMHK9X-1024x770.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17142004/2FMHK9X-768x578.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17142004/2FMHK9X-1536x1155.jpg 1536w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17142004/2FMHK9X.jpg 1538w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14785" class="wp-caption-text">Juneteenth emancipation day celebrations in Texas back in 1900 (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
Many slave owners had refused to accept the Emancipation Proclamation for two and a half years before this monumental date in 1865, so the arrival of union troops marked a new chapter on June 19th, thus triggering the annual celebration we know today.
For decades, people have marked Juneteenth by reading Emancipation Proclamation in full and singing a selection of patriotic and religious songs. But now, perhaps the most common way to honour the occasion is through the consumption of food and drink with red hues, like red soda, watermelon and barbecue dishes.
To dig into why Juneteenth foods are red and how have the traditions have stood the test of time, Twisted spoke to <a href="https://adrianemiller.com/">award-winning American culinary historian</a> and author of Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, Adrian Miller.
<figure id="attachment_14784" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14784" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14784" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17141826/GW7J9X-300x200.jpg" alt="pork bbq juneteenth" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17141826/GW7J9X-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17141826/GW7J9X-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17141826/GW7J9X-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17141826/GW7J9X.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14784" class="wp-caption-text">The sticky red glaze on barbecued meat has become symbolic (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
<h2>What red food and drinks are traditional on Juneteenth?</h2>
As with all food traditions, the red food and drink consumed over Juneteenth has evolved as the years have gone by.
&#8220;One of the earliest ancestral drinks would have been red kola nut tea. Kola nuts are native to Africa, and the red ones, you would just put it in some water, sweeten to taste and serve,&#8221; says Miller. &#8220;The other one would be hibiscus based drinks. They go by several names in West Africa but bissap is the most common, and again, it&#8217;s just the red flower petals of the hibiscus plant – the one that&#8217;s native to West Africa – steeped in water and sweetened.&#8221;
The ingredients for both of these drinks came across the Atlantic during the slave trade and subsequently took root, meaning they were commonly consumed by many of those Juneteenth seeks to honour. Whilst the ingredients are less accessible today in the American South, due to the climate, Miller says there&#8217;s still a strong emphasis on people creating drinks that are coloured red. 
&#8220;In the earliest emancipation celebrations that I could see in the 1870s and 80s, red lemonade was one of the most popular drinks – that&#8217;s before the advent of red carbonated beverages (strawberry soda, cherry soda) and later, Big Red Soda and KoolAid, which you typically see people drinking today.&#8221;
<figure id="attachment_14781" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14781" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14781" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-300x200.jpg" alt="red drinks juneteenth" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140907/JC7E1N-1568x1045.jpg 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14781" class="wp-caption-text">Red drinks are consumed to honour ancestral traditions (Credit: Alamy)</figcaption></figure>
Alongside red drinks, Miller says there are two other components that make up the &#8220;Juneteenth trinity&#8221; – barbecue foods and watermelon.
&#8220;When you smoke meat, it has a reddish tinge&#8230;it&#8217;s called the smoke ring, and even though it looks brown on the outside, when you cut it, it&#8217;s got this reddish, pinkish inside,&#8221; Miller says. &#8220;Then, of course, the application of a tomato based barbecue sauce also accentuates the red factor&#8221;.
On top of its colour, the historian says that barbecue food became part of the traditions for two simple reasons: the fact it&#8217;s a summer celebration, and the sheer amount of people it can serve. 
&#8220;In the early days, barbecue was all about digging a pit in the ground and cooking whole animals, and it could feed a whole community,&#8221; he explains. “The food barbecued varies, some parts of Texas traditionally cooked goat, others would cook hog and beef would also be common.&#8221;
<figure id="attachment_14778" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14778" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14778" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140104/quaritsch-photography-nQ6bjb20G5w-unsplash-300x200.jpg" alt="bbq food barbecue" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140104/quaritsch-photography-nQ6bjb20G5w-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140104/quaritsch-photography-nQ6bjb20G5w-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140104/quaritsch-photography-nQ6bjb20G5w-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140104/quaritsch-photography-nQ6bjb20G5w-unsplash.jpg 1200w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14778" class="wp-caption-text">American BBQ food has become an integral part of Juneteenth (Credit: Unsplash)</figcaption></figure>
Previously, Juneteenth also saw Black Americans eating fried chicken in a browny/red fried crumb, and of late the Juneteenth Trinity has been expanded to include a plethora more options, like vegan alternatives and healthier riffs on the classics.
For dessert, watermelon has always been customary, but recently, other red foods like red velvet cake and strawberry pie have also entered the mix. They&#8217;re not traditional, but culinary tropes evolve, and the idea remains the same. 
&#8220;There&#8217;s no doubt whatever red food you eat or drink, it&#8217;s still an intentional, symbolic decision,&#8221; Miller says.
<h2>The history of Juneteenth&#8217;s red food tradition</h2>
But what is red symbolising? According to the historian, &#8220;the idea is that the colour red symbolises the bloodshed of enslaved Africans,&#8221; and acts as a tribute to those who suffered in the slave trade.
There are several other theories behind the use of red foods, too.
&#8220;Another explanation that I&#8217;ve heard is that a red was a royal colour for several West African courts,&#8221; he adds, whilst Fred Opie, a history professor at Babson College, has previously attributed the colour red to the sacred tradition of &#8220;offering up the blood of animals,&#8221; which is traced back to the Yoruba and Asante tribes.
Culinary historian Michael Twitty<a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-juneteenth"> has his own theory</a>, suggesting that the colour red symbolises transition and power for the Yoruba and Kongo tribes.
&#8220;Enslavement narratives from Texas recall an African ancestor being lured using red flannel cloth, and many of the charms and power objects used to manipulate invisible forces required a red handkerchief,&#8221; he says.
<figure id="attachment_14780" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-14780" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img loading="lazy" class="size-medium wp-image-14780" src="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-300x200.jpg" alt="watermelon" width="300" height="200" srcset="https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-300x200.jpg 300w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://twistedfood.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/17140407/juja-han-l3KOZAMPBOU-unsplash-1568x1045.jpg 1568w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /><figcaption id="caption-attachment-14780" class="wp-caption-text">Watermelon is also typically eaten over Juneteenth (Credit: Unsplash)</figcaption></figure>
Whichever of these theories is true, they&#8217;re all in keeping with the fact that, as well as a celebration, Juneteenth is a deeply &#8220;spiritual practice&#8221;, in which those observing can come together as a community to signify their continued fight for equality and freedom in society.
Miller says that, in this instance, the power of food and drink to bring people together can&#8217;t be underplayed. In fact, it&#8217;s a big part of why Juneteenth celebrations have stood the test of time, and become such an institution (in 2021, it was even made a federal holiday).
&#8220;The interesting thing is, there were traditions of celebrating emancipation in other places, but Juneteenth is the one that has had longevity across the US,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;One of the remarkable stories of Juneteenth is how it&#8217;s supplanted all of these other local traditions and became the celebration it is today&#8221;.
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There are many reasons Juneteenth&#8217;s food and drink has connected with Black Americans on such a scale.
For one, Miller says, &#8220;barbecue is definitely about celebration, building community and reinforcing social ties, and it&#8217;s something that&#8217;s a deep tradition within Black community.&#8221;
Through the process of cooking and eating barbecue foods, &#8220;you feel like you&#8217;re communicating with the ancestors, not only with the folks you know in the present day,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;You&#8217;re steeped in a deep tradition that goes way back.
&#8220;There&#8217;s a reason when you look at just records of the African experience in the Americas, barbecue shows up all over the place.&#8221;
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The tradition of eating red foods as a whole also leaves an impact, whether people are consciously aware of it or not.
&#8220;There is a spiritual dimension to it because you are linked in this common enterprise, which is racial justice,&#8221; Miller says. 
&#8220;You&#8217;re in the midst of this really strange situation where you&#8217;re in a country where you&#8217;re not yet fully accepted, but you&#8217;re trying to find a space where you can still celebrate the small victories and the things that make you human.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if people are readily conscious of it, but even today it&#8217;s certainly a part of what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;
Miller admits that he does worry people are becoming less aware of the significance of the red foods they eat on Juneteenth, and what they stand for. 
&#8220;As well as celebrating freedom, we&#8217;re also giving a nod to the horrific things that our ancestors went through,&#8221; he says. &#8220;It&#8217;s a testament to our strength that we are still surviving despite everything that&#8217;s been thrown at us
&#8220;The important thing to remember is that Juneteenth is not the final word on freedom because we&#8217;re not yet free.&#8221;

'Why Eating Red Foods On Juneteenth Will Always Feel Important To Me' 

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Eating red food has become an integral part of celebrating Juneteenth in the States - expert Adrian Miller exclusively explains why.

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Watch Tom ring in the new year with a special beef chilli party bowl on this instalment of Shelf Life

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In the season 2 finale, Tom pulls out all of the culinary stops whilst trying to navigate the earnest festivities. His birria-inspired beef & pork chilli bowls are perfect for those cremant-in-one-hand events where serving family-style makes a lot of sense.

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Inspired by the classic Mexican street food snack, Elotes, these fritters are packed with flavour. They'd be great on their own but are transformed by all the toppings - pickled onions for tang, vegan feta (a great vegan sub for Cotija cheese) for a creamy, salty kick, avocado for freshness and chipotle mayo for smokiness. These would make the perfect hangover brunch or lunch on a summers day when you've got friends over! A real treat. Enjoy!

Elote inspired cheesy vegan sweetcorn fritters with chipotle mayo, smashed avocado and pink pickled onions

Elote Inspired Vegan Sweetcorn Fritters Recipe | Twisted

Start by making the batter for your sweetcorn fritters. Mix together all the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl, then pour in the milk. Stir to combine until you have a thick, wet mixture. Cover and set to one side.

Mash the avocado to your desired consistency then add in all your seasonings. Place the avocado stone into the middle of the mixture to prevent it from going brown! Cover and set aside.

Onto the other toppings. In a small bowl, combine the sliced onions, vinegar, water and sweetener and make sure the onions are almost fully submerged. For the chipotle mayonnaise, combine all the ingredients, stir then season with salt and pepper. Lastly, in a separate bowl, mix together the lime zest, salt and chilli powder. This is your lime chilli seasoning to top the dish with. 

Now all the toppings are ready, it's time to fry the fritters. Pour the vegetable oil into a large frying pan, and heat over a medium high heat. Once the oil is hot, dollop in a few large spoonfuls of batter and flatten slightly (we'd recommend frying 3 at a time). Leave the fritters to fry on each side for 3-4 minutes. Remove once golden brown. 

Layer the fritters with the chipotle mayo, some crumbled vegan feta and then another fritter on top. Repeat once more then top the whole stack with the avocado, more vegan feta, pickled onions, lime chilli salt and a good glug of hot sauce. Scatter over some coriander and dive in!

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Calamari. Too often it's left neglected in the starters section - a pallid, greasy, chewy overture to more interesting things to come. Not this time. This calamari recipe is centre stage, singing loud and proud in a brioche bed with wild garlic mayo and pickled chillis. Isn't it lovely? It's also a perfect snack to eat with our really quite beautiful beer that we've made with our pals at Brewgooder. 

If you're looking for a delicious calamari recipe to put in brioche buns then you've found one. It's even got wild garlic mayonnaise. | Twisted

Spicy Calamari Recipe With Wild Garlic Mayonnaise & Brioche Buns

Place the prepared squid rings and tentacles into a bowl along with the salt and milk. Stir to combine and leave to tenderise for half an hour.

Whisk together the cornflour, plain flour, baking powder, pepper, kashmiri chilli, smoked paprika and the other tsp salt. Set aside.

To make the mayonnaise: heat the oils gently in a saucepan then pour into a blender/nutribullet with the chopped wild garlic leaves. Blend hard until emulsified and pass through a fine sieve.

In a steep sided bowl place the egg yolk, mustard and vinegar. Get an electric whisk and very slowly whisk in the green, garlic infused oil. The mixture will start to thicken up and you'll be left with a bright green mayonnaise. Stir through the salt and garlic (just to make it even more garlicky). Classy!

When ready to fry, toast the buns in the butter until golden brown and set aside. 

Heat the oil to 170°C. Take the squid pieces, around 5 at a time, and place them in the bowl with the flour. Move them around to coat liberally then move them to the hot oil. Fry for around 2 minutes or until golden and crispy. Repeat with the remaining squid. 

Take a liberal tablespoon and slather your bottom bun. Cover with a liberal mound of the hot calamari and a squeeze of lemon. Add the guindija chillis, shallots and and a good dusting of sumac, then stuff it in your face and enjoy the Good Times.

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What's better than sushi rice? Fried sushi rice! This time it's piled high with sticky miso aubergine, spicy green vegan mayo, slaw, and avocado. You've gotta try this.

What's better than sushi rice? Fried sushi rice! This time it's piled high with sticky miso aubergine, slaw, and spicy green vegan mayo.

Miso Aubergine Sushi Burger | Twisted Green

Wash your rice until the water runs clear, then let it soak for 30 minutes. This is optional, but recommended. Drain one more time, then top up with fresh water, enough to come up to your first finger knuckle. 

Bring to a boil, then cover and turn down to low and leave to cook for 15-18 minutes. Leave to stand for 10 minutes, then press into a dish and leave to chill in the fridge for at least 1 hour.

Add all of your mayo ingredients to a jug, then blend using an immersion blender until it's thick and emulsified. 

For the slaw, combine your cabbage, spring onions, mayo, lemon, and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper. 

Whisk together the miso paste, brown sugar, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and water. Dice your aubergine. 

Brown all of your aubergine in batches. Pour over the miso glaze, then let it reduce on a medium heat. 

Heat your vegetable oil to 180 C. Tip out your cooled sushi rice, then cut out into four circles. Carefully place the circles into the oil and fry until golden and crispy. 

Assemble: rice bun, green mayo, avocado slices, aubergine, slaw, top bun. Enjoy!

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Don&#8217;t you just miss drinking your favourite cocktails in bars and restaurants? Yeah, so do we. Quite a lot.
So, we&#8217;ve been mixing away behind the scenes and curating twists on recipes of four classic cocktails. We&#8217;re thrilled to present four expertly crafted classic cocktails that in true Twisted fashion, have been fused with amazing flavours to create truly unique bar worthy drinks, and really take them up a notch.
Our pre-batched cocktails make drinking cocktails at home a breeze. No mess, no fuss. And you&#8217;ll save a packet on the raw ingredients you&#8217;d need to create these ready mixed cocktails on your own too. All that&#8217;s left for you to do is choose which of these four delicious ready made cocktails has got your name on it. Can&#8217;t decide? Make a night of it and try all four with a 20% saving!
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Refreshing & light cocktail with a hint of mystery

The key to any good Negroni recipe is to make it perfectly balanced and simple. This bitter and strong drink includes notes of citrus and juniper berries which give this pre-meal cocktail a solid, flavourful punch.
It&#8217;s not for the faint of heart, but this gorgeous cocktail is sure to start your night off with style.
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A fruity cocktail perfect for a summer&#8217;s day. This classic cocktail has its roots in 1920s London and Parisian cocktail clubs, so it&#8217;s only right that we bring it back for the second Roaring Twenties.
With a blackberry twist, the Sidecar has an enchanting combination of flavours that&#8217;s a fine balance between sweet and sour.
ABV 15%. Suitable for vegans. Garnishes not included.

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Another creation of the infamous London cocktail clubs, this Espresso Martini boasts a sophisticated mix of vodka, coffee and chocolate. Cherry syrup softens the flavours of this cocktail, turning it into a heart-melting cocktail fit for the streets of Soho.
Hand-mixed using ten-times distilled Wheatley Vodka and cold brew coffee, the Black Forest Gateau Espresso Martini is perfect for the vodka and coffee purist.
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Famed for unusual and outrageous recipes featured in the Twisted videos, we&#8217;re now thrilled to be launching the Twisted Cookbook!
After 3 years of becoming a global food phenomenon, the Twisted mouth-watering recipes have been compiled into a new cookbook. With over 100 recipes, mealtimes are sure to look a lot different.
Some showstoppers you can expect to find in out cookbook include; creamy Butter Chicken, party food favourite Hunter&#8217;s Chicken Mozzarella Sticks, a whole section dedicated to picnics in the parks, and wholesome hangover Saturday breakfast favourites such as our Giant Breakfast Crunchwrap!
With these unbelievably tasty recipes, you&#8217;re sure to become an unstoppable cook. No need to order take-outs anymore!

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You've probably seen a few of the Viral TikTok Grinder Sandwiches floating around recently but you've not seen one like this. We're swapping the salty cured meats for a luscious fried aubergine in a seasoned breadcrumb coating, and adding tonnes of flavour into the sauce with some vegan favourites - tahini, nooch aka nutritional yeast and salty, savoury green olives. 

This Vegan Grinder Sandwich (aka the Viral TikTok Sandwich) recipe is a winner - it's deliciously messy and is filled to the brim with an irresistibly creamy salad, vegan cheese and deep fried breaded aubergine.

Vegan Grinder Sandwich Recipe, TikTok Sandwich | Twisted

Start by placing the aubergine slices on a plate or tray. Sprinkle both sides of the aubergine with salt and leave them to sit for at least 10 minutes. After 10 minutes there should be beads of water on the surface of the aubergine. Rinse the slices then thoroughly pat them dry. 

Grab 3 bowls. In one, add the flour and season with salt and pepper. In the next, pour the plant based milk and in the last add the golden breadcrumbs with all the seasonings. Place each piece of  aubergine in the flour first and ensure every bit is fully coated. Next, submerge the floured aubergine in the milk and lift it straight into the breadcrumbs, pressing down to ensure the whole piece is fully coated and the breadcrumbs are stuck to the aubergine. Do the same with each slice of aubergine then place them on a plate or tray and leave to one side. 

Whisk together all the ingredients for the salad dressing from the mayonnaise to the italian seasoning. Once you have a creamy sauce, add in the peppers, olives, onions and lettuce and mix everything together until the salad is fully coated in the dressing. 

Heat the vegetable oil in a large frying pan over a medium high heat. Once hot, add in the breaded aubergine slices, you may need to fry them in batches so the pan doesn't get overcrowded. Fry on each side for a few minutes until golden brown and cooked through. Remove and place on a plate lined with paper towel to drain excess oil. 

Slice the ciabattas and load the vegan cheeses on one side of each loaf. Place under the grill or in a hot oven to melt the cheese. Remove once bubbly. Season the tomato slices with salt and pepper than place onto the melted cheese, then layer on the fried aubergine and finally top with a generous amount of the grinder salad. It's a messy one - enjoy!

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This Vegan Grinder Sandwich (aka the Viral TikTok Sandwich) recipe is a winner &#8211; it&#8217;s deliciously messy and is filled to the brim with an irresistibly creamy salad, vegan cheese and deep fried breaded aubergine.

This mango passionfruit loaf cake is the perfect summery treat. It's simple to put together and has the freshness of mango, so best to use them when they're in season to get a lovely mango sweetness.  The cake itself is so tender and delicate topped with a tangy passionfruit glaze for the perfect contrast.  IF you're not a fan of passionfruit, you can omit it and add some lemon or even a raspberry glaze would be lovely! Make this for your next al fresco event and it will be a hit!

Tropical flavours  in this mango loaf cake with a passionfruit glaze.  Such a delicious and lovely delicate loaf cake.  Perfect flavours for the summer!

Mango Passionfruit Loaf | Twisted Green

Preheat oven to 170 celsius. Grease and line a loaf pan and set aside. 


In a bowl whisk together flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. 


In a stand mixer, add the softened butter and mix on low speed for about 1 minute. Add in mango purée, room temperature yogurt, milk, and vanilla, and mix until smooth. 


Add in dry ingredients, scraping the bottom and sides of the bowl with a silicone spatula as needed. Mix on low until smooth. Transfer batter into a greased loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes to 1 hour or until a butter knife through the center and comes out clean. Let the cake cool completely in the pan before removing it. 


Combine glaze ingredients and whisk until smooth. Pour it over the cake and garnish as desired with mango and flowers. Enjoy!

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Tropical flavours in this mango loaf cake with a passionfruit glaze. Such a delicious and lovely delicate loaf cake. Perfect flavours for the summer!

Arayes is a magical thing... but without all that fatty meat us vegans are missing out on some of that oily indulgence. So the Arayes Grilled Cheese was born, in answer to all our prayers, to provide a deliciously hearty, fragrant, flavour packed grilled cheese to rival all grilled cheeses. The green sauce is in there to add a bit of zing and cut through the richness of the filling and the tahini sauce is the perfect accompaniment to that acidic tomato base. 

A deliciously spiced vegan mince packed with veg, loaded onto bread with melted vegan cheese and a fresh, zingy green sauce

Vegan Arayes Grilled Cheese Recipe 

Start with the sauces. In a small bowl, combine everything for the herby green sauce then set to one side. Then for the tahini sauce, begin by adding the tahini into a bowl then gradually add cold water and whisk until it reaches a smooth, slightly thick but drizzleable consistency. Take 1 tsp of your green sauce and add it into the tahini along with the lemon juice, salt and pepper. Set aside.

Boil a kettle with 200ml water. In a heatproof bowl or jug, add the finely chopped walnuts and cous cous, season with a pinch of salt and pour in the just boiled water. Cover the jug or bowl and set aside to soften for around 10 minutes. 

Heat a medium frying pan over a medium high heat. Pour in the extra virgin olive oil. Once the oil is hot, tip in the grated onion, carrot and mushrooms and stir to coat in the oil. Fry for around 5 minutes, stirring occasionally, or until all the moisture has gone and the veg are starting to turn golden brown. Next, add the garlic and tomato paste and stir through the veg. Cook for a few minutes, until the tomato paste darkens slightly then add the seasonings - the za'atar, baharat, smoked paprika, salt and pepper. Cook the spices out for 1 minute to allow them to bloom and become fragrant. 

By now, the cous cous should be cooked and the walnuts softened. Drain the mixture of any remaining water then add into the pan along with the cooked veg. Stir to combine fully. Add the cornstarch and 1 tbsp water into the pan and mix fairly vigorously. Lastly, fold in the chopped parsley then remove the mixture from the pan. Don't wash the pan - keep the flavoured oil for the next step.

Butter both slices of bread then top one with the meaty mixture and all the vegan cheese (it will make a thick sandwich, so feel free to divide the mixture and cheese into two and make another toastie, if preferred). Flip over the other slice so the butter is on the bottom then, on the dry side, brush over a generous amount of the green sauce. 

Reheat the same pan over a medium heat with another glug of extra virgin olive oil. Once it's hot, lower in the slice of bread that's topped with the meaty mixture and cheese. Fry for a few minutes then add a splash of water to the edge of the pan and cover with a lid to help melt the cheese. After a few minutes the cheese should be melting nicely so top with the other slice of bread, green sauce side down, then flip and fry for a few minutes, or until golden brown. Remove from the pan once the cheese has melted and both sides are crisp and golden brown. Serve with the tahini dipping sauce and enjoy!

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If you're looking for a plant-based meatball option, these aubergine meatballs are a sinch to make.  Aubergines are sponges so they love to soak up flavour which is perfect. The vegan tagine-inspired flavours from Morocco along with a fiery harissa tomato sauce pairs perfectly with spaghetti for a hearty and comforting meal. 

Delicious vegan tagine inspired Aubergine Meatballs with spaghetti. Perfect meat-free dinner option that's full of flavour! 

 Moroccan style Spaghetti and Aubergine Meatballs | Twisted Green

Preheat the oven to 180ºC.  Line a tray with parchment paper

Heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.  Add the onion and garlic and saute for a few minutes.  Add the aubergines and cook for 5 minutes. Sprinkle over the ras el hanout and cook for another minute.

Pour in the stock and cook the mixture for about 20 minutes. Until the liquid is absorbed and the aubergine is soft and tender and add the apricots. 


Transfer to a food processor and pulse to blitz slightly but keep chunky. Then fold through breadcrumbs, parsley, and nutritional yeast and season with salt and pepper. Let the mixture cool completely


Divide the mixture into golf ball-sized balls.  Shape and arrange on the prepared tray.  Brush with oil and bake for 20-30 minutes or until golden and firm.


Meanwhile, make the sauce.  Saute onions in oil until softened. Add the garlic and spices, tomato paste, and harissa. Loosen with some water and cook for a couple of minutes. 


Then add in the crushed tomatoes and stir through. Bring to a simmer and cover to cook for about 20 minutes until thickened and the oil starts to separate. 


Then season with salt, pepper, and a little lemon zest. Add in the meatballs and cook them in the sauce for a few minutes.  


Cook spaghetti according to package directions, and save ½ cup of the cooking water. Then remove the meatballs from the sauce to toss in the spaghetti with some pasta water to loosen the sauce. 


Serve the spaghetti with the aubergine meatballs and garnish with toasted almonds, parsley and lemon zest. Enjoy!


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Delicious vegan tagine-inspired Aubergine Meatballs with spaghetti. Perfect meat-free dinner option that&#8217;s full of flavour!

Made using Birds Eyes Green Cuisines New Cumberland Style Meat Free Sausages, this omelette style wrap is packed full of flavour yet so easy to make! Pan fried red onions and mushrooms, a sprinkle of cheese with egg on top, all wrapped up in a soft flour tortilla and finished with fresh spinach and hot sauce! YUM! 

These Birds Eye Meat Free Cumberland Style Sausages in omelette style tortilla wrap is the perfect vegetarian breakfast!

Birds Eye Meat Free Sausage Breakfast Tortilla Wrap | Twisted 

In a frying pan, fry your Birds Eye Green Cuisine Meat Free Sausages - follow the cooking instructions on the pack and cook until piping hot.  

Whilst the sausages cook, whisk the eggs and season with the parsley, salt, pepper and garlic granules.


In another large frying pan, heat 1 tbsp butter over medium heat. Once the butter has melted and is gently bubbling, tip in the red onions, and cook until they start to caramalize, stirring occasionally.


Add the mushrooms into the pan with the onions along with another ½ tbsp butter and the paprika. Fry over a medium high heat until the mushrooms start to brown. Spread the veg evenly around the pan then pour in the beaten eggs. Leave the eggs to fry until almost cooked through.


Sprinkle the grated cheese over the egg mixture then cover with the tortilla wrap. Press the tortilla down gently to bind it to the eggs. Using a spatula, flip the tortilla and fry until just golden brown on the other side.

Lift the tortilla onto a plate, slice your cooked sausages then add them to the tortilla along with some fresh spinach and plenty of hot sauce.


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This sausage breakfast wrap is like no other. Packed full of Birds Eyes Green Cuisines Meat Free sausages and other  brunch flavours! Its an instant classic!

Got an urge for a sausage? Craving a curry? Want a wrap? Birds Eye have saved the day once again with their delicious Green Cuisine Cumberland Style Meat Free Sausages. I’ve whipped up a beautiful naan wrap with a creamy curry sauce, tangy salad and soothing vegan yoghurt - yummo.

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Start by preparing your sauce. Add your olive oil to a pan on a medium heat, then add your diced onion. Once the onion is starting to soften, add the garlic and ginger. 


Once everything is soft and aromatic, add in your spices. Allow the spices to bloom in the oil, then go in with your sugar and chopped tomatoes. Cook this for 10-15 minutes, then blend until smooth. Stir through your plant based cream, season with salt and pepper, and set aside. 

For the salad, combine your diced vegetables with the chopped coriander, lemon juice, salt, and pepper.

For the yoghurt, mix together your yoghurt, mint leaves, grated garlic, lemon, salt, and pepper. 

Next, pan fry your Birds Eye Green Cuisine sausages for 10 minutes, or until golden brown and piping hot. Slice up the sausages diagonally, then toss in some of your silky sauce. 

Warm your naan briefly in the oven, then build your burrito. Start with a generous layer of your herby yoghurt, then your saucy sausages. Top with your salad and a few extra coriander leaves, then wrap up and enjoy!

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If Indian and Mexican are two of your favourite cuisines, then you have to try this roti burrito. We've got bright, zingy flavours mixed with the comfort of hashbrowns, roti, and pilau rice. 

Double carbs always works, and this roti burrito is no exception. Crispy hashbrowns, mango kachumber, and spiced pinto beans, all wrapped up. 

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Start by preparing your kachumber. Dice your tomatoes, mango, cucumber, and red onion. Combine with coriander, lemon juice, nigella seeds, chilli powder, salt, and pepper. 

For the pinto beans, fry off your onion in a splash of olive oil. Once they’re softening, add the garlic and ginger paste. Add tomato puree and spices, and cook for a further couple of minutes. 


Add the drained pinto beans, mango chutney, salt, pepper, and a splash of water. Let that cook on a low heat until the beans are soft. 

Combine the mango, yoghurt, lemon, turmeric, coriander, and salt in a blender. Blend until smooth. 


Pop your frozen hashbrowns into a preheated oven, and cook about half way to the package instructions. 

Mix your spices with oil. Bring your parcooked hashbrowns out of the oven, and crush with a glass. Brush with the spice mix on both sides, then return to the oven until they’re super crispy.

Build your burrito. Warm the roti, then fill with the yoghurt, pilau rice, pinto beans, hashbrowns, and kachumber. Roll up in foil, slice in half, and enjoy!

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Double carbs always works, and this roti burrito is no exception. Crispy hashbrowns, mango kachumber, and spiced pinto beans, all wrapped up.

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