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"India Cookbook, above all, is an inspiration and a testament to the glory of Indian cooking in all its incarnations. It's a call to the kitchen."--Saveur
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"India: The Cookbook" is the first comprehensive guide to Indian cooking, with over 1,000 recipes covering every aspect of India's rich and colourful culinary heritage. Unlike many other Indian cookbooks, it is written by an Indian culinary academic and cookbook author who lives and works in Delhi, and the recipes are a true reflection of how traditional dishes are really cooked all over India. They have been carefully edited to ensure that they are simple to follow and achievable in western kitchens, with detailed information about authentic cooking utensils and ingredients. Indian food has been hugely popular in the UK for many years, and the appetite for Indian food shows no sign of diminishing. Now, for the first time, a definitive, wide-ranging and authoritative book on authentic Indian food is available, making it simple to prepare your favourite Indian dishes at home, alongside less well-known dishes such as bataer masalydaar (marinated quails cooked with almonds, chillies and green cardamom), or sambharachi kodi (Goan prawn curry with coconut and tamarind). The comprehensive chapters on breads, pickles, spice pastes and chutneys contain a wide variety of recipes rarely seen in Indian cookbooks, such as bagarkhani roti (a rich sweet bread with raisins, cardamom and poppy seeds) and tamatar ka achar (tomato and mustard-seed pickle). "India: The Cookbook" is the only book on Indian food you'll ever need.
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86 of 90 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a beautifully presented book, as all the Phaidon ones tend to be and the recipes are really enticing. Unfortunately I have tried three recipes so far and each and every one has failed as key ingredients are missing (yeast, I would assume, in the naan breads where it asks you to leave the dough for two hours to rise in a warm place) or it asks you to prepare ingredients for pastes which it then never refers to again (Imperial Chicken) or where it imagines you can make 12 portions of lentil filled puffed bread with only 1 tablespoon of self raising flour (which is going to form a dough to encircle 120g of lentils).
Beautiful but utterly worthless. I will be writing to Phaidon to complain and ask them to send me a corrected edition.
Beautiful but utterly worthless. I will be writing to Phaidon to complain and ask them to send me a corrected edition.
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I have been waiting for this book with anticipation. I have not come across any mistakes or incomplete recipes yet - as mentioned by some of the other reviewers - but there are a whole lot of recipes to go through.
This is by far the most complete Indian cookery book I have ever seen. This book + Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Bible are probably the only Indian cookery books you will ever need.
It is true that this book seems to be written for experienced cooks. The recipes are very brief so you do need to be confident in technique - confident enough to improvise a little to make the dishes to your own taste.
The photos in the book are beautiful, but it could have done with some more.
I read the comments from other reviewers about the quality of the paper. The quality is fine. The paper is a coloured uncoated stock and is probably chosen as a design feature more than anything else.
one warning - and a downside - read carefully for how many portions the recipes are, as this is not consistent throughout the book. i ended up cooking a huge pan of curry for 6 people!
This is by far the most complete Indian cookery book I have ever seen. This book + Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Bible are probably the only Indian cookery books you will ever need.
It is true that this book seems to be written for experienced cooks. The recipes are very brief so you do need to be confident in technique - confident enough to improvise a little to make the dishes to your own taste.
The photos in the book are beautiful, but it could have done with some more.
I read the comments from other reviewers about the quality of the paper. The quality is fine. The paper is a coloured uncoated stock and is probably chosen as a design feature more than anything else.
one warning - and a downside - read carefully for how many portions the recipes are, as this is not consistent throughout the book. i ended up cooking a huge pan of curry for 6 people!
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I've never been more disappointed in a cookbook (and, believe me, I've used many). I've worked as a professional cook, so I know how to make a recipe work, and I've successfully cooked curries of all kinds from a number of books, but the dishes in this book (I've tried three) have all failed. There are missing ingredients and techniques - the result of bad proofing, clearly - but even where everything seems complete, the recipes just don't pan out.
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Educational enlightenment!
Learning the art of genuine Indian cookery is a really tricky thing, with literally hundreds of books that all claim to show the easy way to do it! Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mr. Pj Marsh
Look no further
Excellent service from Amazon as usual. The book itself is a complete guide to everything you need to know about Indian cooking. You need look no further, it's a great purchase.
Published 3 months ago by Breda
The Ultimate Curry Cookbook
I bought this as a present. My daughter loved the book and also the little canvas bag it came in.
Published 4 months ago by laredo1
Very comprehensive and useable - but NOT for the beginner!
I bought this cookbook having read all the reviews, including those which complained of bad proof-reading, incomplete recipes and missing or misprinted ingredients. Read more
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Complet Indian Cookbook
This is the most complete Indian book.It covers almost every food from the sub continent and explains the reciepies in a simple way
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Great book!
A well presented book about Indian cookery. The format is straight forward and very easy to follow. I have tried a few recipes and the results are very good and there are lots more... Read more
Published 13 months ago by F. Lewis
A different sort of Indian recipe book
After 20 years of cooking Asian, especially southern Asian food, I have a pretty extensive collection of recipe books of all types and like to think I am pretty experienced in the... Read more
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Comprehensive and editorially quirky
The editors missed a few opportunities to do their job properly here and there, as other reviewers have noted, but that does not detract from the most comprehensively excellent set... Read more
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Wonderful...
This book is fantastic...
It is presented in a little bag which is amusing and makes you think of India before you have even opened the book, but the book itself is... Read more
It is presented in a little bag which is amusing and makes you think of India before you have even opened the book, but the book itself is... Read more
Published 14 months ago by FLF
A Fantastic, Comprehensive Cookbook
I apprehensively ordered this cookbook knowing that some previous reviewers have commented on ingredients being missed out in the step-by-step instructions. Read more
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