An Indian Housewife's Recipe Book (Right Way S.) (Right Way S.)
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Manufacturer: Elliot Right Way Books
Publisher: Elliot Right Way Books
Author: Laxmi Khurana
An Indian Housewife's Recipe Book (Right Way S.) (Right Way S.) Description
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780716020783
ISBN: 0716020785
Label: Elliot Right Way Books
Manufacturer: Elliot Right Way Books
Book Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher: Elliot Right Way Books
Studio: Elliot Right Way Books
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9780716020783
ISBN: 0716020785
Label: Elliot Right Way Books
Manufacturer: Elliot Right Way Books
Book Pages: 160
Publication Date: 2000-05-01
Publisher: Elliot Right Way Books
Studio: Elliot Right Way Books
Editorial Review of An Indian Housewife's Recipe Book (Right Way S.) (Right Way S.)
Customer Reviews of An Indian Housewife's Recipe Book (Right Way S.) (Right Way S.)
Customer Rating: 
Review Summary: A Little gem
Review: I bought this for myself years ago and have cooked and love nearly every recipe - good, honest and easy everyday cooking for those of us addicted to Indian food.Ingredients that you can get anywhere. Not Madhur Jaffrey "restauranty" recipes with huge lists of exotic ingredients.I have given a copy to each of my children as they left home and they love it too.
I actually like the fact that there are no pictures - it takes away the pressure to make the food picture perfect - just slosh it on the plate and enjoy the taste.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It is an easy cooking book
Review: It is a very very good Indian Cooking Book, easy and tasty. One thing I am not happy about is that there are not recipies for 'Tandoori Masala' and 'Garam Masala'. Of course, you can buy 'Tandoori Masala' and 'Garam Masala', but don't you want to try to make your own?
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: I'm always cooking from this book!
Review: This is a really useful Indian cookery book. Most of the recipes are straightforward and delicious. I've particularly loved the dahl and potato dishes. Most of the ingredients are easy to find in the UK. There are about three recipes which require unusual vegetables, but in a way that's good as it's been fun looking for them and great to try something new - I highly recommend the Tindora Curry.
I'm giving this book 4 stars rather than 5 because the besan barfi wasn't very good, partly something I was doing wrong probably, but also I think something is wrong in the recipe with the proportions as it was barely sweet at all and I've noticed in other cookery books I have that it is made with much more sugar. The other reason is that I found that the recipes weren't quite as varied as they could be. For example, none of the many dahls contained coconut milk which I find makes a delicious addition and although very good they all seemed to have a similar tomatoey base.
I still think this is an excellent cookbook and will be using it to cook a lamb curry right now!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It promises well
Review: I bought this book hoping it would have some of the recipes which I have just enjoyed while in India, but I was really disappointed.
Every Indian housewife in southern India cooks Idlis for breakfast, and serves them with fresh coconut chutney and sambhur ~ delicious! and none of these recipes is mentioned in this recipe book, which is disappointing...and makes you wonder whether they were omitted because the book is simply written for a western market.
If you want to track down Idlis, butter chicken and all the other wonderful food, then I wholeheartedly recommend "a little taste of India" which is beautifully produced, clearly written, and wonderfully photographed on location in India, and covers all the most delicious and subtle flavours of this delightful food.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Expats in France
Review: Since moving to rural France four years ago, I have started cooking Indien food. This is one of the best books I have in my cookery book collection. Most of the ingredients I can buy here, some I stock up on, on my rare visits to the UK and others I just don't use or change. Easy to follow recepies, you don't have to be a gourmet chef to produce a fantastic dish. My french friends are becoming converts. Need I say more.
Review Summary: A Little gem
Review: I bought this for myself years ago and have cooked and love nearly every recipe - good, honest and easy everyday cooking for those of us addicted to Indian food.Ingredients that you can get anywhere. Not Madhur Jaffrey "restauranty" recipes with huge lists of exotic ingredients.I have given a copy to each of my children as they left home and they love it too.
I actually like the fact that there are no pictures - it takes away the pressure to make the food picture perfect - just slosh it on the plate and enjoy the taste.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It is an easy cooking book
Review: It is a very very good Indian Cooking Book, easy and tasty. One thing I am not happy about is that there are not recipies for 'Tandoori Masala' and 'Garam Masala'. Of course, you can buy 'Tandoori Masala' and 'Garam Masala', but don't you want to try to make your own?
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: I'm always cooking from this book!
Review: This is a really useful Indian cookery book. Most of the recipes are straightforward and delicious. I've particularly loved the dahl and potato dishes. Most of the ingredients are easy to find in the UK. There are about three recipes which require unusual vegetables, but in a way that's good as it's been fun looking for them and great to try something new - I highly recommend the Tindora Curry.
I'm giving this book 4 stars rather than 5 because the besan barfi wasn't very good, partly something I was doing wrong probably, but also I think something is wrong in the recipe with the proportions as it was barely sweet at all and I've noticed in other cookery books I have that it is made with much more sugar. The other reason is that I found that the recipes weren't quite as varied as they could be. For example, none of the many dahls contained coconut milk which I find makes a delicious addition and although very good they all seemed to have a similar tomatoey base.
I still think this is an excellent cookbook and will be using it to cook a lamb curry right now!
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: It promises well
Review: I bought this book hoping it would have some of the recipes which I have just enjoyed while in India, but I was really disappointed.
Every Indian housewife in southern India cooks Idlis for breakfast, and serves them with fresh coconut chutney and sambhur ~ delicious! and none of these recipes is mentioned in this recipe book, which is disappointing...and makes you wonder whether they were omitted because the book is simply written for a western market.
If you want to track down Idlis, butter chicken and all the other wonderful food, then I wholeheartedly recommend "a little taste of India" which is beautifully produced, clearly written, and wonderfully photographed on location in India, and covers all the most delicious and subtle flavours of this delightful food.
Customer Rating:
Review Summary: Expats in France
Review: Since moving to rural France four years ago, I have started cooking Indien food. This is one of the best books I have in my cookery book collection. Most of the ingredients I can buy here, some I stock up on, on my rare visits to the UK and others I just don't use or change. Easy to follow recepies, you don't have to be a gourmet chef to produce a fantastic dish. My french friends are becoming converts. Need I say more.