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Travel: Cooking up some coastal classics in Goa

A trip to a cookery school just off Palolem beach offers an insight into the unique cuisine of this Indian coastal region

Palolem beach in Goa: you’ll find Rahul’s Cooking School just off it

“One, two, three, four, five aaaaand flip.” And with that, my cooking instructor Sonia flips a perfectly inflated chapati directly over the flames of a gas cooker.

Six seconds is the optimum time to cook this staple of Indian cuisine. The trick is to use lots of heat for a short period of time; any longer and your chapati will burn.

This is just one element of the hands-on instruction on authentic local dishes I’m ...