Weekend food with Darina Allen

WE HAD another terrific guest chef at the cookery school recently.

Sunil Ghai is a tall handsome chef from Gwalior, but he is firmly established on the Irish restaurant scene. He was chosen as Chef of the Year in Ireland in August 2009 by Food and Wine Magazine — no easy task at the best of times but even more difficult for a non-Irish chef.

He is widely respected and admired by his fellow chefs for his knowledge, affable personality and the food served in the Indian restaurants he is associated with in Dublin. Some may have seen him on Masterchef Ireland last week.