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50 Great Curries of India
by: Camellia Panjabi

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781856265461
ISBN: 1856265463
Label: Kyle Cathie
Manufacturer: Kyle Cathie
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: October 29, 2004
Publisher: Kyle Cathie
Studio: Kyle Cathie
Sales Rank: 3630

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Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Great Recipe Book
I am delighted with this book, its informative and has great recipes. I like the explanation of all the herbs and spices, all with colour photographs, very useful and practical. Lots of variety to suit all tastebuds. There is lamb, chicken, fish and plenty of vegetable dishes. You look at the recipes and just know they are going to work!
I can see this is going to be competition for my favourite Madhur Jaffrey book!

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- Great background
I just came across this book by chance but I have found it to be a really helpful book when cooking Indian food. The recipes are usually great (my favourite is 'green chicken korma', so unusual and tasty!!) but one or two have been a bit dodgy (whatever you do, don't cook 'meat cooked with cardamon'; I couldn't eat it).

My favourite thing about the book is that it gives a history of Indian cuisine, a great introduction to the principles of indian cooking, an excellent guide to cooking with spices (with a picture guide and everything) and other ingredients used in Indian cooking (eg the section thickening agents) and a section on what to do if your curry goes wrong (if the curry is too salty or liquid etc). I also love that every ... Read More:

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- Amazing!!!
I love Indian food and thought it was about time that I bought a decent book and learned how to it myself.

I've never heard of Camellia Janjabi, but the glowing reviews from Pat Chapman and Nidel Slater convinced me to buy it.

I've only tried the basic home curry (the first recipe in the book) and amazed myself - it was delicious!!

Can't wait to try all the other ones.

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- Too much background, recipes are flops
I have cooked three recipes so far from this book and will probably not cook any more. The book is excellent in terms of describing how to use spices but the recipes themselves are incomplete and sometimes a little confusing. On a few occasions I have looked at recipes where the amounts of spice used and techniques for preparation were...well, just weird...

The book is very well illustrated and while the recipes may be quite advanced, it falls short in giving enough supporting information. Maybe if I stuck at this I could crack Cammelia's recipes. But can I be bothered? No. I compared her Chicken Makhani to the recipe on the BBC website (I think by Jo Pratt) and the latter was ten times better and a lot easier to cook too. It was ... Read More:

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- The best book on Indian cooking I have read, but...
I have read several books on Indian cooking through the years, but this is the one I keep coming back to. It gives good background information and explains the process of making good Indian food. Yet, if you follow the recipes slavishly, you may still be disappointed, because the quantities depend on the quality of the ingredients you use as well as your personal taste. Chili is just one example. It comes in so many varieties with different pungency, that you just have to experiment to find out how much you want to add. The book is still a great introduction to Indian cooking.

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