Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21437 in Books
• Published on: 2002-03-14
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Synopsis
The grand tour of Indian cuisine - all in one top-value cookbook. With enough range to prepare any variety of Indian meal, this comprehensive cookery collection now boasts high-quality, full-colour photographs. From classic favourites to exotic regional specialities, this is handy for everything from salads and snacks to special dinner parties, and includes all the most popular favourites. Offering this kind of quality, style and value, it's a must-have for your cookery shelves.

From the Back Cover
The grand tour of Indian cuisine - all in one top-value cookbook.

Think of all the succulent and aromatic dishes you've relished in your favourite Indian restaurants. Now think of the joy of serving these ever-popular recipes at your own dinner table.

This valuable book gives you enough range to prepare any variety of Indian meal, including regional specialities, vegetarian menus and many exotic dishes, side dishes, snacks and desserts. There's over 30 kinds of curry sauce alone!

The recipes are equally suitable for beginners and experienced Indian cooks. They are ideal for gourmet dinner parties but handy for snacks and salads too.

With 1000 recipes to choose from, you'll never need another Indian cookbook.

Kashmiri Rogan Josh, Shahi Padshah Korma, Moghlai Shami Kebabs, Chicken Muglai Biryani, Aubergine Bhurta, Gulab Jamun.

About the Author
Wendy has been working in publishing for over 30 years and has written many books, including cookery books, non-fiction information books and children's stories. She has worked with many of the UK's most prestigious publishers, including Macmillan, Oxford University Press, BBC Books, Cassell and Purnell. While specialising in cookery editing, she has worked with some of the UK's most renowned chefs and cookery writers, including Gary Rhodes, Mary Berry, Valentina Harris, Ken Hom and Madhur Jaffrey. As a commissioning editor and editorial director, she has commissioned and worked with hundreds of authors, from experienced professionals to those looking for an opening in publishing.

Customer Reviews

Sloppy, but large
This is the third Indian cookbook I've bought, and it has been rather inspiring. It contains the promised 1000 recipes, and there where a lot I had never heard of. If you want to learn about more than just curries, and maybe find out how to make Indian food without always making curries, it's just great. It has a lot of recipes such as Rasams, which are much lighter (curries tend to be greasy), and they are easy to make. How ever, one has to be very careful just following the text, not everything is worth cooking at all, and some things are rather absurd. I've had some annoying cooking mishaps using this book. Another almost unforgivable feature is that they must have reedited the book to fit the shopping possibilities of the west. Now, I don't mind adaptations, but it should be made clear when a substitute is used, and what the original is. F.ex. in the chutney section, the recipes calls for apples, but in the "how-to-do-it" text, it's mangoes. Very sloppy editing, and a silly idea (mangoes and apples are just not the same). Still I'm not sorry I bought it, with a little common sense in sorting, and a little prior knowledge of Indian cooking, it makes a good source of inspiration and often times a new way of using Indian without drowning in cholesterol.

Superb
This recipe book is a superb addition to anyone's culinary library - clearly not every recipe will suit every person but it is inconceivable that you would not find a significant number of useful recipes in here and even if you found just one nugget, then considering the price, it would be well worth it.

The variety of recipes in the 1000 series is simply staggering - to say you are stuck for choice is an understatement. And there is a vegetarian section in this too which is an extremely useful feature.

Ok, so there are no photographs but against that, the books don't cost a fortune either and they are compact.

You really cannot go wrong with any of these recipe books and when you consider they cost little more than 1 issue of pretty much any food magazine, well, they truly are an absolute bargain.

Buy this one, buy them all - you won't be disappointed.

A very authentic easy to read book !
Being born and brought up in Bombay has exposed me to a variety of Indian food.
This book has a list of almost everything I can think of that is made in India. Right from making different varieties of spices to all the preparations from north to south of India.
The book is divided into various sections for vegetarian, meat, fish, sweet dishes, etc.
I use this book a lot for making curries new to me and they turn out to be absolute yummy !
Even my mate - who is British makes great food with that book !
In short this book is highly recommended and should be a part of every food lover's kitchen...