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'A widely varied and totally delicious collection... a truly beautiful book.' --The Bookseller
Tandoori Magazine, March 2006
...award-winning food writer Monisha Bharadwaj has compiled some of the most creative and traditional [vegetarian dishes] in this stylish hardback.
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I love this cookbook so much that I have now bought it for my sister, boyfriend, mum and step-mother! I was prompted to write a review when I saw another review that only gave it three stars... as you may be able to tell from my extreme purchasing habits outlined above, I am a big fan and I think this book deserves the full five stars. I want to tell you why I like it so much.
First of all, it's a good read. I like to lie in bed and skim through cookbooks, it's one of my little pleasures in life! This one is particularly aesthetically pleasing. A jacketed hardback, it is filled to the brim with enticing and beautifully photographed recipes.
Rather than lumping all Indian cooking together, or just looking at one type, the book looks at the different types of cooking in India's regions - it's divided into four parts: the North, the West, the South and the East. Each part starts with a description of the cooking in all the regions, from particular flavours to types of food that are found in that part of India. Each section has recipes in the following categories: vegetables, breads, rice, pulses, dairy, accompaniments and puddings. So you can compare the different types of, say, lentil dal or desserts. It's really interesting to get a sense of the different 'feel' of the food in each region.
At the end of the book there's a useful section with advice and information about different ingredients, from herbs and spices to rice or types of chilli. I found this helpful, as I'm not used to cooking Indian food and felt I needed a bit of extra advice on choosing chillies, for instance.
I've used this cookbook a lot and have always got good results from the recipes. There are a lot of fairly easy recipes that don't take too much work or require too long a list of ingredients - always appealing as I'm a lazy cook!
If you are looking for an Indian vegetarian cookbook, I think this is a wonderful one. Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Cooking probably can't be beaten for being comprehensive (and indeed it is a great book too), but this is definitely the book for you if you appreciate lavishly illustrated cookbooks that offer readable explanations and interesting facts as well as recipes. It's a very nice visual and cultural introduction to Indian food.
First of all, it's a good read. I like to lie in bed and skim through cookbooks, it's one of my little pleasures in life! This one is particularly aesthetically pleasing. A jacketed hardback, it is filled to the brim with enticing and beautifully photographed recipes.
Rather than lumping all Indian cooking together, or just looking at one type, the book looks at the different types of cooking in India's regions - it's divided into four parts: the North, the West, the South and the East. Each part starts with a description of the cooking in all the regions, from particular flavours to types of food that are found in that part of India. Each section has recipes in the following categories: vegetables, breads, rice, pulses, dairy, accompaniments and puddings. So you can compare the different types of, say, lentil dal or desserts. It's really interesting to get a sense of the different 'feel' of the food in each region.
At the end of the book there's a useful section with advice and information about different ingredients, from herbs and spices to rice or types of chilli. I found this helpful, as I'm not used to cooking Indian food and felt I needed a bit of extra advice on choosing chillies, for instance.
I've used this cookbook a lot and have always got good results from the recipes. There are a lot of fairly easy recipes that don't take too much work or require too long a list of ingredients - always appealing as I'm a lazy cook!
If you are looking for an Indian vegetarian cookbook, I think this is a wonderful one. Madhur Jaffrey's Eastern Vegetarian Cooking probably can't be beaten for being comprehensive (and indeed it is a great book too), but this is definitely the book for you if you appreciate lavishly illustrated cookbooks that offer readable explanations and interesting facts as well as recipes. It's a very nice visual and cultural introduction to Indian food.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In my 40 years of cooking only vegetarian food I have acquired a bookcase full of cookery books, some good, some not so good and some with perhaps a couple of repeatable recipes.
This book and its companion "Indian Kitchen" are in a league of their own. They are both FANTASTIC. These books have introduced me to new ingredients and new combinations of the familiar, producing the most beautiful flavours I've tasted.
Books also very readable with loads of interesting information as well as beautiful photographs.
This book and its companion "Indian Kitchen" are in a league of their own. They are both FANTASTIC. These books have introduced me to new ingredients and new combinations of the familiar, producing the most beautiful flavours I've tasted.
Books also very readable with loads of interesting information as well as beautiful photographs.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book has wonderful intentions, but one can't help but feel that it is impossible to be an authority on every single region's cuisine! The recipes are good for the basics, and the photography is certainly pleasing on the eye (though the idlis look like no idlis that I have either cooked or eaten!). Reccomended to those just getting started in Indian cookery - then buy some more regionally specific books (e.g one book per region) to get really clued up.
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Yummy food!
husband bought this for me as a treat, made a few dishes from it, gorgeous food! yummier than a takeaway, although lost a few stars because the recipes arent simple to do and... Read more
Published 6 months ago by BeckyPocket
Hard work for little pay off
This book has been a huge disapointment, I will list the reasons below. I lived with 2 Indian veggie guys for a year and they used to make great food every night, Rasam and Daal... Read more
Published on 8 May 2010 by R. Mayne
Indian Veggie Cook Book
Well thought out book with a wide variety of recipes.You don't need to be a vegetarian to enjoy the tasty dishes.
Published on 24 April 2010 by John Bonellie
Excellent, inspiring book!
This is one of my favourite cooking books so far! Every recipe has its own little description of its origins and how it should be eaten. Read more
Published on 14 May 2009 by A. Tabolicz
A good book for lentil lovers
I like this book.
It's not the most glamourous recipe book, nor the most accurate (be prepared to make a few attempts before achieving results that equal the... Read more
It's not the most glamourous recipe book, nor the most accurate (be prepared to make a few attempts before achieving results that equal the... Read more
Published on 13 Aug 2006 by N. Wood
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