- Hardcover: 256 pages
- Publisher: Thunder Bay Press (CA) (September 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1571451528
- ISBN-13: 978-1571451521
- Product Dimensions: 26.9 x 22.6 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.4 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,159,272 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Book Description
This comprehensive and inspirational cookbook features authentic cuisine from all over India. Chapters include meat and fish, vegetables, breads and grains, snacks and side dishes, and desserts. Balances exciting new ingredients and recipes with a wide selection of traditional favorites. Includes 120 easy-to-follow recipes, each illustrated with full-page color photographs. The What's Cooking series also includes: Baking, Barbecue, Chicken, Chocolate, Chinese, Italian, Low Fat, Pasta, and Vegetarian.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Better than it appeared at first glance,
By C. J. Thompson "Arctic John" (Pond Inlet, Nunavut Canada) - See all my reviews (TOP 100 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Indian (Hardcover)
I wasn't terribly impressed when I first flipped through this book. A few dishes appeared distinctly unappetizing (the Chicken Tandoori, for instance) and the bulk of the recipes seemed quite a bit removed from those in other Indian cookbooks ... more like fast food restaurant productions rather than the sort of thing you might actually find in India.
In consideration, however, I think my initial assessment was unfair. On looking through this book I note that, though a few recipes have 'curry' in the title, curry powder appears nowhere as an ingredient and in each dish and the spices for each are mixed individually. In using these blends, the author has managed to create dishes that are bright and lively in color, and a pleasant change from the often drab and sometimes downright awful dark browns that typical spice usages impart to may Indian dishes. Moreover, the dishes that are presented appear to have been cooked to preserve freshness. Indian cookery rarely features rare meat or 'al dente' vegetables and westerners may find a lot of dishes to have an 'over-cooked' quality to them. All in all, he recipes in this collection address these features of an otherwise delightful cuisine and the book thus represent something refreshing and interesting.
5.0 out of 5 stars
whats cooking indian,
By A Customer
This review is from: Indian (Hardcover)
this is a very helpful book. the step by step pictures are something i could not find in any other indian cookbook. the directions are very simple to follow, and even the toughest recipes seem easy.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Proportions?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Indian (Hardcover)
As a picture book this cookbook is great, but I have to question the portions of the ingredients, particularly the oil used. Many recipes start off calling for 1 1/4 CUPS of oil. If you take this verbatim, you end with oil soup, nothing like the photos.Interestingly, if you view the preparation photos sometimes the pan looks almost dry (c.f. Chicken and Onions). Where's the 1 1/4 cups of oil? That certainly wasn't absorbed by 4 onions. Similarly the amount of water also seems out of proportion. What do 1 1/4 cups oil mixed with 2 1/2 cups water look like with 2 lbs. of lamb cooked covered? Not what's on page 23. Something is wrong here, but it does look great on the coffee table. And as far as ingredients go, yes 95% of them are in the grocery store shelves but items like dried mango powder or black cumin seed or masoor dhal are probably not. You may have to do a little on-line shopping but then I would expect to. I thought the following from the recipe for Chapati was amusing: After kneading the flour, salt and water for 7-10 minutes it says to let the dough "rise" for 15-20 minutes. Anyony see anything wrong with those instructions? There's no leavening. It won't "rise" in 15-20 years. It does taste good though. Oh, and I would suggest a good oil separator.
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