Madhur Jaffrey's Foolproof Indian Cookery (Foolproof Cookery) |
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Madhur Jaffrey
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Pages: 128 (Hardcover)
ISBN: 056353737X
Pub: BBC Books
Pub date: 2001-08-23
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 138986
Editorial Review:
Madhur Jaffrey presumably doesn't mean to give offence with the title of Foolproof Indian Cookery, but she and her publishers must reckon that there are a lot of people who enjoy eating Indian food but haven't the first idea how to prepare it. Fair enough. This addition to the BBC's Foolproof series sets out to provide exactly that guidance and does so with Jaffrey's customary expertise, perfect taste and lack of condescension, with copious clear illustrations of both the cooking processes and the finished results. The recipes cover soups, starters, meat, fish, poultry and eggs, and accompaniments (no desserts, calculating, perhaps, that the very sweet Indian varieties are not to everyone's taste), and include pretty much everything one would expect to find, including the infamous Chicken Tikka Masala. In a concluding helpful gesture, sample menus pull the dishes together into different categories of balanced, well-structured meal. The Elegant Dinner Party, for example, comprises Moghlai Lamb with Sultanas, Green Lentils with Lemon Slices, Plain Basmati Rice, Moghlai Spinach with Browned Shallots and Tomato and Onion Cachumbar (a salad). The Family Meal, by contrast, consists of the simple but extremely satisfying combination of Rogan Josh, Potatoes with Cumin, accompanied by Flaky Flatbreads with Cumin Seeds. Delicious food, presented in a straightforward, uncomplicated manner. --Robin Davidson
Reader Reviews:
A Book For Anyone Who Likes Making Curries, But Not Shopping (0/0 people found this helpful)
Using ingredients readily available at your local supermarket this book gives clear, easy to follow, instruction to making many favourites. I have a couple if Curry books but this is the one we delve into each Saturday night.
Heartily recommended
Experience the taste of Indian cooking (2/2 people found this helpful)
Indian cuisine boosts a global reputation for its delicious and tasty dishes. It is well liked with Westerners and they cannot resist the taste of Indian cooking. It requires specialist equipments and spices to really make Indian cooking an enjoyable experience.Their is section devoted to this. Madhur Jaffrey's Foolproof Indian Cookery (Foolproof Cookery) offers a variety of dishes which you can sample the taste for yourself in different ocasions. The book features soups/starters, fish, eggs, poultry and meat and vegetables. Steps by step instructions and diagrams accompany each dish, which is concisely explained and technical jargons are kept to a minimium. The book is informative and assisted me a great in kick starting my cookery skills. What more could I ask for?
Tastes of home ! (0/0 people found this helpful)
I am an Indian student who moved to the UK three years ago. As is the case with most young Indians nowadays, (maybe I am generalising a wee bit :-) I was one of those cooks who could burn water. I yearned for the food my mom cooked and hated greasy Indian takeaways that always tasted the same. Then one fine day, my cousin bought me this book. And life changed for me, my husband and every one of my friends. I turned into a cook !
This book is amazing. I know people have criticised it for not being substantial, but believe me, when you just want to cook something simple that tastes like home, there is nothing like it. My copy is well used by now and stained with the flavours of cooking, like every real cookbook should be. This book inspired me to collect the entire series, and made me adventurous and a really good cook, as any of my (highly satisfied) eaters will attest to.
REALLY IS FOOLPROOF! (38/38 people found this helpful)
Although I consider myself quite a good cook, my curries always seemed to taste the same when I used the pre-prepared pastes and sauces. I did buy another Indian cookery book, but a lot of the ingredients were unobtainable in my northern town and the recipes were, frankly, quite fiddly. Madhur has saved me. I tried two dishes last weekend and both turned out perfectly and tasted absolutely delicious. The ingredients are easily obtainable and the recipes clear and concise; she takes you through them step by step. Even my husband could cook from this book!!!
Glossy, superficial and, a little bit disappointing (23/28 people found this helpful)
Sorry Madhur, but this is far from your best work. There are not enough recipes for a start. There is a distinct lack of variety. OK, those that appear are well explained and photographed exquisitley. But that's not enough these days. I wanted more, especially for the money. Buy an earlier Jaffrey work. Or look out for a more substantial indian cookery book.
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