The Curry Secret : Indian Restaurant Cookery at Home

Okay, so I read the reviews and there were still doubts (the reviews were so good that I thought the Author could be spamming good reviews of his own product), but I considered this before buying:

The reviews start way back in '99 (nearly a decade ago at time of writing), so surely some customers would have piped up about it by now ?

I read the bad reviews, and they seem to centre around the fact that the dishes are not authentic Indian food. Having tasted both home Indian cooked food, and of course the take-away style curries we have here in the UK, I can say that I completely agree - They are not the same thing.

Seeing as I have yet to find an Indian cookbook with recipes for both styles, it appears as if you will need one book (minimum) for each.

And so I bought the book, and no, I was not disappointed, I made a fantastic chicken tikka masala on first attempt, thoroughly impressed friends & family etc.

My dishes have not yet quite reached (but are very close to) the finish of the take-away, but they are already orders of magnitude better than anything you can buy in a UK supermarket.

I can't remember the last time I saw a book with such high reviews - and in my opinion it fully deserves them: The book promises take-away style curries, and then it delivers on the promise. The only thing I don't understand is how the author is not a millionaire.

mike,pontypridd, Wales (0/0 people found this helpful)

I have always wanted to be able to cook a curry just like the ones you get in the Indian restaurants but i have never been able to get the right spice mix, this book gives really good instruction, With the aid of this book i decided to have a curry evening and invited some friends over, everyone enjoyed the evening and they were really impressed by the chicken Do-Piaza i prepared, The book is not a curry dictionary and the recipes are quite basic, but if like me you want to cook the occasional curry this book is a must have

Does what it says on the cover (1/1 people found this helpful)

I am an expat living in Canada, where there is a severe shortage of Indian Restaurants. In my desperation for a good curry I purchased this book. The results are brilliant. It's the next best thing to my favourite restaurant in the Granite City! Buy it you won't regret it.

Hours of fun & food I love (2/2 people found this helpful)

If you like restaurant curries, this is a great place to start. If you're looking for "authentic" Indian, this isn't it. The recipes are easy to follow, simple enough to take on 3 or 4 at once, and if you batch cook the base sauce, quick to put together. I freeze both the finished base & the unfinished used for cooking the chicken, the latter in ice cue trays - makes life simple & quick. It is also a great starting point to experimentation and I've had relative success with different meats. One point to bear in mind - the finished results are dependant on the raw ingredients. It used to be I had to hunt around for some of the spices, now they're in the supermarkets. Buy small quantities & use while it's young, it doesn't keep (freezing helps). But you get what you pay for, in cash or convenience so the next batch of spices will come form an asian store or chinese supermarket.

tasteless cooking! (1/4 people found this helpful)

I bought this as an impulse buy and now seriously regret it. All the recipes are small deviations on three or four basic recipes using the same ingedients so once you have made the three you have made all the curries in the book.
Also I found most of the dishes bland and lifeless - for potential curry chefs this is definitly one to avoid

The Curry Secret : Indian Restaurant Cookery at Home

Kris Dhillon

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