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Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape: 100 of My Favourite Indian Recipes [Hardcover]

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7 Jan 2010

In his new Channel 4 series TV chef Gordon Ramsay embarks on a culinary journey around India, discovering the breadth and depth of cooking of the country. His new cookbook is packed with the best recipes from his travels, showing you how to cook authentic dishes that are bursting with flavour.

Three-star chef Gordon Ramsay's favourite food is one that he shares with a lot of Britain - curry. But, until now, he's never been to India to see how the real thing is cooked. Accompanied by a Channel 4 film crew, Gordon takes the culinary trip of a lifetime to discover real Indian cuisine and share this collection of over 100 of his favourite Indian dishes.

As you'd expect from a Michelin-starred chef, Gordon brings his eye for perfection and ability to judge flavours perfectly to his exploration of Indian food and shows us how to cook authentic, mouth-watering dishes from all over this huge and varied country. He visits Kerala deep in the South of India to bring us spicy, coconut-based curries and travels to colourful Rajasthan to learn about the creamy, flavourful dishes of the North. Along the way Gordon experiences the hugely different flavours and spices from the different regions and absorbs local cooking styles and traditions.

Throughout his culinary journey, Gordon selects the best of the vast array of Indian spices, now readily available in British supermarkets. He shows us how to use these authentically to produce a beautifully flavoured Indian dish. Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape includes over 100 recipes in the following sections: Everyday, Entertaining, Quick Lunches and Healthy Dishes.

Once Gordon shows you how easy it is to put together authentic Indian dishes, you'll never look back.


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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins (7 Jan 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0007267053
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007267057
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 26.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 16,872 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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“Gordon unveils his hottest recipes ever […] forget those takeaways”
The Times Weekend

“The 100 recipes are for curious entry-level cooks as well as experienced hands on the lookout for unusual spice combos, as Ramsay has gone beyond the curry house in his search for authentic recipes […] recipes are properly tested, the instructions clear and the photography is a visual feast”
Time Out****

“Delectable”
Heat

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Gordon Ramsay's radical career change at 17 years old led him to London and to fame and fortune as chef, restaurant-empire-builder and celebrity. Gordon has published nine bestselling recipe books, a hugely successful autobiography and has starred in a stream of successful television series including the award-winning Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Hell’s Kitchen and The F Word. He was appointed OBE in 2006.


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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars '100 of my favourite Indian recipes'... 6 May 2010
By ooOoo VINE™ VOICE
Format:Hardcover
...the subtitle adequately sums up GR's chunky new book, published to coincide with the TV programme of the same name:

Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape.

But, in reality, it is far more.
With raised lettering to the D/J's main title, a relaxed and still rugged GR adorns the front cover, sharing his enthusiasm for India - its food and its life.

'...My own love affair with Indian food started when my mother made me my first curry as a child.
Granted, Mum's inauthentic curries were nothing like what we're used to today - hers were mostly flavoured with curry powder with the occasional handful of sultanas thrown in - but to us the flavours seemed exotic and mesmerising and I was hooked. Since I left home and started working, Friday night curries have become a ritual. Like most people, I have had favourite dishes, which I would order time and time again, but overall I felt pretty comfortable with the food and thought that I knew quite a bit about Indian cuisine.
How wrong I was!..........

...When the opportunity came for a culinary adventure in India, the choice was simple. This was the chance of a lifetime to escape from the grind of daily life and discover the truth about Indian cuisine....'

From the d/j inner flap:

'.......to experience for himself the stunning diversity of this extraordinary country's culinary traditions......Gordon immersed himself in all that India has to offer, tasting his way from region to region.....
Throughout this epic trip, GR cooked with some of India's most accomplished chefs, acquiring and refining new cooking techniques with a staggering variety of ingredients.........'

The use of the adjective 'staggering' is certainly not understated!
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars First-rate! 6 July 2010
By J. Pell
Format:Hardcover
This book is one of my FAVOURITE cookery books of all time. Every recipe works so well, but also tastes so good.It has given me the confidence to try recipes I wouldn't ever have contemplated and Indian food has now become a staple part of our diet.
Monkfish moilee - the first fish curry I have ever done.
Chicken palak - what a good use of spinach
Chicken badami - mild and delicious
Chicken biryani - the best! Beautiful flavours really work together ( lovely rice)
Jeera rice superb with egg curry. ( Never thought and egg curry would taste so good)
Now buy spices in larger quantities to keep up!
Thank you, Gordon!
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18 of 21 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent buy 4 Aug 2010
Format:Hardcover
Being of pakistani origin and use to cooking traditional spicy food, I was a bit dubious about buying a Gordon Ramsay book with indian recipes. However the recipes are authentic and the few dishes I have made in the last week since i got the book have been really successful. Even my mum (who incidently is an excellent cook) had a browse through my book and decided to buy a copy too. I love the fact there are no pretentious east meets west recipes.
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35 of 45 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent 21 Jan 2010
Format:Hardcover
This is one of my favourite areas of cooking and Gordon has excelled in producing authentic tasting Indian food with easy to follow instructions. I've tried several of these recipes and they really don't disappoint. From spicy meat and fish dishes to vegetarian and desserts...wonderfully fragrant and tasty food, well done Gordon.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding! 29 Aug 2010
By Satoshi
Format:Hardcover
I love food and drink and have recently REALLY gotten into cooking and have bought a number of cookery books. This is the most exciting, interesting and mouth watering one that I've bought so far!

The pictures are lovely and the recipes are easy to follow. There isn't so much detail that you feel overwhelmed by the recipe, just enough to tell you how to prepare and cook it which is, as aforesaid, very easy to follow and thus the dishes turn out beautifully!

It is nothing like the Indian food that you will get over here. Very authentic and I would recommend finding an Indian supermarket to get all the spices and bits and pieces needed for it. It'll probably be a lot cheaper than a high street supermarket too.

I'm so glad I bought this book and couldn't recommend it more! Also, at the price it's a steal!
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars A Joy! 14 May 2010
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This is a beautiful book - full of delightful photographs and recipes that will remind me of the excellent TV programme.
It has been a lifelong dream of mine to visit India and I followed Gordon's Journey on TV which awakened my desire to go there too - this book is a tangent reminder of the wonderful programme and also full of my favourite recipes.
I live in France and have already cooked some of the dishes for my French friends - who found them delicious.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Does India 30 April 2012
Format:Paperback
Traditionalists and purists of Indian food may scoff and sniff at this, but three-star Michelin chef Gordon Ramsay has put his immense talents to learning and translating the basics of Indian cookery whilst, at the same time, putting his own style and making the dishes easy for the home cook to prepare and enjoy.

This book is a "spin off" to a British television series that saw Ramsay travel around India, learning from some of the country's top chefs and regular street-food cooks alike what real Indian food is. What people think of Indian food can often be a pale imitation of the real authentic dish or, as in many cases, the dishes one enjoys at home are not even known of in the country of their alleged birth.

There is no standard Indian fare as each region has a wide-range of specialities, delicacies and signature dishes. Where commonality can be found there will still be regional influences based on practical and historical reasons. Here Ramsay gets to learn about what makes many of these dishes tick, whether it be taste, visual appearance, nature of ingredients or even a cultural difference.

Many cookery books featuring Indian food often manage to confuse the less-experienced reader by over-complicating matters or becoming intimidating through their desire to be authentic. Ramsay, whilst trying to keep the food true to its roots, acknowledges and accepts some practical differences - not everybody will have access to all of the cooking implements and fresh ingredients that would be desirable yet with a slight compromise and the use of ingredients that are increasingly-available in larger supermarkets around the world you will still get a dish that could be fit for a King, a Maharajah or a good family get together.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great book, but not as a cook book !!
This is just a great read, but I don't expect I will cook much ( if anything ) from it. I just love the narrative and the ideas that GR took with him and brought back. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Johan RF
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Indian Cookery
Despite the series having received a lot of poor press, I really loved it, as it showed a humble and human side of Ramsay, bringing him to his knees in front of peasants. Read more
Published 13 months ago by TF
2.0 out of 5 stars Dire beyond belief
Now I was going to give this a one star rating but let's face it the food in this book when cooked is edible, I do however question as to who proof read it or maybe I should go a... Read more
Published 16 months ago by M. Price
5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Ramsy's Great Escape
This cookery book is great as it really digs into the reality of cultural Asian cooking and brings out some really traditional dishes which perhaps are not often tasted outside of... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Pkhanam
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
I've used this book loads. The recipes are pretty authentic but state where and how they are altered from the original. Read more
Published on 11 Jun 2011 by m-o-s-e
4.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Ramsay
If you like cookery books or Indian food in general, you'll probably like this one. The television series was excellent, and with a big budget camera crew in tow, the photography... Read more
Published on 31 May 2011 by J. Livsey
3.0 out of 5 stars Tame
There are a few really good receipes in this book but on the whole I found them very tame. I enjoy spicey food and have been cooking Indian meals for years. Read more
Published on 26 April 2011 by Rachael Murphy
5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon's Curries
Have had this book approx 1 month now and have tried 2 recipes so far. Butter chicken was adored by all the family. Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2011 by goldleaf
5.0 out of 5 stars Gordon Ramsay's Great Escape: 100 of My Favourite Indian Recipes
This is the first time I have been impressed enough to add a review for a book!
I have a decent collection of Indian cookbooks and have also travelled around India a fair... Read more
Published on 15 Feb 2011 by ng23
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant!
This is the best indian recipe book I have used due to the fact that the recipes are so simple to follow and actually work! Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2011 by nicola89
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