As the weather gets cooler, it's only natural to crave meals that are richer and fuller in flavour.

While it's far too easy to dream up these culinary indulgences, preparing them is another matter. Anybody can toss some lettuce and cucumber together and call it a salad, but a chicken curry that transports you to the shores of spice-heaven India is another matter.

In spite of our most sincere intentions, most of us land up with some watery concoction with remnants of chicken swimming about in it. Luckily, just in time for those winter cravings, Koo has launched South Africa's first flavoured tomato paste. - Keitumetse Segoai