SussexFood are delighted to announce the student recipes that Head Chef Justin will be cooking live at next Monday's free event, A Taste of Home. After being inundated with recipes from a very passionate “foodie” student population, we made our decisions on recipes that clearly came from the heart. 

The first recipe, from a media masters student, is "Spiced Chocolate Chicken Curry". Chef Justin said he had to choose this one from the recipes’ opening line alone. It began “Sorry if the recipe sounds too, well, weird.” Brilliant. 

Second is “Lentil Stuffed Peppers with a Goat’s Cheese topping”. The recipe came with a wonderful description of vegan/vegetarian home-upbringing and included insights into the dishes’ healthy benefits. The third year Law undergrad told us that “Using peppers to contain the lentils is beneficial as peppers (and in particular red peppers) have a high vitamin C content, which in turn enables the body to absorb the iron content from the lentils”. How cool is that? 

To add another vegetarian option - that would be inclusive to everyone at the event - we’ll also be preparing truffle-oil infused hummus, donated by the president of Sussex Foodie society. 

Lastly, we’ll be cooking Sweet potato and prawns curry which has a distinctive Caribbean feel. We chose this to make sure the recipes spanned the width of globe, giving us a dish from the Americas to compliment the Asian and European flavours above.

Chef Justin met with the students today to discuss their recipes more in-depth. Now, at the event on Monday, the students are going to join Chef Justin on stage to participate in the cooking. 

And to make sure he does it right! 

It should be a lot of fun so please come along and enjoy the international flavours.

 A special thanks to BMEc who are kindly supporting this event.

By: Craig Ryder
Last updated: Friday, 7 March 2014