Essential Curry Kit

by Camellia Panjabi

This unique kit is a starter course for those wishing to cook authentic curry dishes. The book introduce the concepts of Indian cuisine, explain the use of spices as thickening, coloring, aromatic, and flavor enhancing agents. The author provides details for creating a fool-proof carry and 50 other Indian curries including fish, meat, and vegetarian recipes.

The Essential Curry Kit includes the essential ingredients for creating delicious curries: a 36 gram jar each of ground coriander, hot chili powder, and garam masala and six 5 gram sachets containing fenugreek seed, poppy seed, green cardamom, cumin seed, black mustard seed, and ground ginger.

128 pages, Hardback book and boxed spice kit

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

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 food, Camellia helped create several restaurants for these premier hotels, featuring little-known regional dishes.

Camellia opened the Bombay Brasserie in London, in 1982, introducing regional Indian cooking to the UK for the first time, and changing the way Indian cuisine is perceived in Britain.

In 2001, she joined her family's restaurant company, Masala World, owner of Chutney Mary, Veeraswamy, Masala Zone and Amaya.

Reviews

[Petra X · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a good kit - all the spices you'll need without resorting to the supermarket generic yellow curry powder plus recipe cards. Its a nice gift and just as nice for oneself to start learning the art of good curry-making.