30 Minute Mowgli: Fast Easy Indian from the Mowgli Home Kitchen
£10.40£23.80 (-56%)
This is the food Nisha Katona cooks at home: punchy, delicious and taking you from couch to curry in 30 minutes or less. As always with Nisha’s dishes, the focus is on big, bold flavours – achieved in these recipes with speed, simplicity and improvisation to avoid waste. It’s the way Nisha cooks every day and it’s the way her grandmother and great-grandmother cooked with their small coal-fired stoves on Varanasi verandas.
Tantalize your tastebuds in 30 minutes or less with Quick Angry Tandoori or Mowgli Coleslaw Chicken Bowl, Ten-Minute Late-Night Kebabs or Keema Toasties, Bengali Fish Curry or Indian Fish Finger Sandwich, Rice Krispie Bhel Puri or Million Dollar Dahl.
This is food for real life: tasty and nutritious meals to whip up without fuss while juggling home, work and family.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Nourish Books, 0 edition (9 Nov. 2021) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 200 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1848994001 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1848994003 |
| Dimensions | 19.51 x 2.01 x 25.2 cm |
by Jake
Image shown, my attempt at Tamarind Salmon Curry, which my wife described as the most delicious Indian meal she has ever had. Even though I say it myself, it was pretty good but that’s enough self praise.
I love this book, fantastic dishes not only quick(ish) Asian food, but also Asian twists on other food styles such as pasta and French toast! The best part is that recipes are well written, easy to follow. Get the basics and with a little practice it’s also fairly simple to adjust dishes, vary ingredients or even invent your own dishes to suit your preference.
Why not 5 stars then? Well, as with many ‘Indian’ cook books describing themselves as ‘quick’ or ‘easy’ the recipes do require commitment. At the beginning of the book there are 9 spices listed as instant flavours which if you’re just venturing into Asian influenced cooking may be a little daunting to start with. Be aware though if 9 seems daunting, it soon becomes clear that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Making the effort to obtain the other required ingredients has definitely been worth it and I’m glad I finally made the leap to massively widen my culinary skills. However just for me to complete the recipes I want from this book my spice cupboard now contains 21 ingredients and that’s excluding essentials such as garlic, ginger, fresh and dried chillies, onion, salt, pepper, sugar, yoghurt, mint jelly, mustard paste, coriander, mayonnaise or any of the main ingredients. If you ever intend to complete the book end to end there will are even more bits and bobs.
I’m lucky that within walking distance for me there are several Asian/International shops and I can easily acquire what once would have been considered ‘exotic’ ingredients but this may not be quite as easy in other areas. Although large supermarkets may have a a range of herbs and spices and there are online outlets, I don’t think the range, quality and certainly not the price is as good as you get from a local Asian shop where, like me, you may even get further hints and tips.
by Amazon Customer
The perfect book for quick simple family recipes
by Jake
Tbf I’ve only done 1 recipe but was so excited as we love going to the restaurant and the fish curry is one of my favs so I wanted to try the fish curry which is different to the one in the restaurant but it was poor….I think they need to review it… it was the Bengali fish curry… it was bland not what I was expecting.
by Lisa wallace
Excellent easy to follow great cook book
by Ditten
Bought as a gift, recipient is already using it. They recommend it
by GREG THOMAS
well received and a few recipes book marked for future meals.
Not quite the kitchen porn of some other writers.
One of the great problems with all cookery guides is the matter of time.
Onions used in Indian cookery need to be reduced to a caramalised mush; the lightly browned slices that is the result of insufficient cooking denies depth of flavour.
Add an extra 15minutes or more to get the right texture and flavour.
Otherwise a great book as long as you use the method as a guide and take your time.
by margaret swindell
Bought as a present but sure he will love it.
by Mr
Great range of recipes in this book.