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50 Great Curries of India
Here are 50 authentic Indian curries, each accompanied by a full-color photograph so that you can see color, texture, and appearance. Try White Chicken Korma,a Muslim court dish blending Moghlai and Nawabi cuisines or Shrimp in Sweet and Hot Curry, with its delicately balanced sweet, hot, and sour flavors. The Gujariti Mango and Yogurt Curry is a tasty treat for vegetarian
...morePaperback, Tenth Anniversary Edition, 224 pages
Published
December 30th 2005
by Kyle Cathie Limited
(first published October 1st 1900)
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A friend in UK recommended this book as a truly authentic Indian Home Curry collection. Good introduction and philosophy behind the kitchen, ingredients and methods into Ayurveda concept. Camilla successfully brought understanding about spices and the meaning and usage of each ingredients including the masterpiece in each region of India. Since move in USA, there are lack of great curry around. Luckily there is speciality shops around that furnish herbs and spices use on this book (caraway seeds...more
The strength of his book is that you quickly pick up the techniques in an easy manner. My favourite recipe is malabar prawn curry, which I first ate at Veeraswammys in London. Wonderful infusion of curry leaf, mustard seed, ginger and hot spices, soured with tamarind and tempered with coconut.
Many of the recipes are for mutton or goat, so if you don't like mutton, you may wish to steer clear.
Many of the recipes are for mutton or goat, so if you don't like mutton, you may wish to steer clear.
This is much more than a book of recipes...the beginning has history, details on each spice and other ingredients, information on Ayurveda, regional styles of cooking etc...and each recipe has a blip on it's origin etc along with a gorgeously style photo of very tasty looking food. I have only used some simple recipes and guidelines so far and am happy...I hope the recipes hold up to my expectations!
Great intro discussion to Indian cooking. But some of the recipes (I felt) did not come out as nice as other Indian cookbooks. Most are fairly bland if you follow her directions to the letter.
Best Indian cookery book I have. Recipes use whole spices, lots of pictures. Food looks and tastes great.
Liked the intro and essay explaining the principles underlying Indian food, but didn't find the recipes very inspiring.
If you really like indian food you shall buy this.
Apr 20, 2012
Nathanael Boehm
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No off-the-shelf curry pastes here, this is from-scratch authentic Indian cooking covering variations from north to south, east to west. Only problem is the small size of the book which makes it hard to follow while cooking - you might want to transcribe, or if you think you can remember the measures of 8 spices, memorise the recipes.
If you love Indian food, but have never tried making it at home, this is a fabulous book. The author not only provides recipes, she details all the components of a curry and explains their function, so you learn how a good curry is constructed and why all the ingredients are important. These are great Indian home-cooking recipes.
Inspired by "Julie and Julia" Tones and I are cooking our way through Camelia Panjabi's "50 Great Curries of India". We are up to #24. See my blog page for updates! http://velokitchen.wordpress.com/50-c...
Brilliant, need to try them now!
A great resource for less popular regional indian lamb/meat dishes
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Camellia Panjabi is the author of the world's best-selling book on curry, 50 Great Curries of India (Kyle Cathie 2006). It has sold over 800,000 copies and has been described as 'the definitive guide to Indian cooking'.
Born in Mumbai, Camellia read Economics at Cambridge and went on to become the Marketing Director of Taj Hotels, India's most prestigious hotel group. With a lifelong passion for fo...more
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Born in Mumbai, Camellia read Economics at Cambridge and went on to become the Marketing Director of Taj Hotels, India's most prestigious hotel group. With a lifelong passion for fo...more
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