5 Spices, 50 Dishes: Simple Indian Recipes Using Five Common Spices

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5954 EAN: 9780811853422 ISBN: 081185342X Label: Chronicle Books Manufacturer: Chronicle Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 132 Publication Date: 2007-05-31 Publisher: Chronicle Books Studio: Chronicle Books
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Editorial Reviews: The premise is simple: with five common spices and a few basic ingredients, home cooks can create fifty mouthwatering Indian dishes, as diverse as they are delicious. Cooking teacher Ruta Kahate has chosen easy-to-find spices coriander, cumin, mustard, cayenne pepper, and turmeric to create authentic, accessible Indian dishes everyone will love. Roasted Lamb with Burnt Onions uses just two spices and three steps resulting in a meltingly tender roast. Steamed Cauliflower with a Spicy Tomato Sauce and Curried Mushrooms and Peas share the same three spices, but each tastes completely different. Suggested menus offer inspiration for entire Indian dinners. For quick and easy Indian meals, keep it simple with 5 Spices, 50 Dishes.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Great Intro to Indian Food Comment: I bought this book because: 1. I like Indian Food 2. I don't know many recipes 3. I already had those 5 spices in my spice cabinet 4. The cover recipe looked really yummy 5. There were lots of pictures I really liked this book! I haven't tried everything yet, but I everything I tried as been yummy. And easy to make. I usually don't follow recipes, and use cookbooks to get ideas for new combos of ingredients. Here I followed the recipes, and thought everything worked well as presented. I have added the cabbage stirfry to my 2X monthly repertoire since it is an awesome way to have more cabbage, really fast and really tasty. I also love there are so many good vegetarian recipes! (I am a meat eater, but trying to be more green by going veggie more often!) Highly recommended book to add easy to prepare Indian dishes to your menus! Customer Rating: Summary: I love this cookbook Comment: This cookbook is really written well. The recipes taste great, and they are easy to make even if you are inexperienced like me. Invite some people over and use this book to cook a dish; you will most definitely impress. The book also has great pictures. Customer Rating: Summary: Simple, yes. Impressive, no. Comment: Not one of the better Indian cookbooks I've worked with. There's only a couple of things in it I think are pretty good. It lacks pizazz and some directions can be vague for a beginner. But I suppose it's not a bad purchase for chefs who don't want to spend a lot of money investing in spices. Customer Rating: Summary: 50's not enough! Comment: We have made about 10 dishes out of this book. By keeping a clear goal and by giving you some basic principles to apply universally, this book has made it possible to create great meals that are easy enough to fit in the work week. I've had better Indian food before, but only at restaurants where the time investment was staggering. Had I imagined it was so easily accessible, and the value of the quality of meal you get for your time investment, I would have been cooking Indian every week, which is just about what we do now. Thanks for this great book! I think it's a must-have, especially for couples and bachelors. Customer Rating: Summary: Easy and delicious Comment: I don't consider myself a good cook at all, but this book is about as easy as it gets. I think I've made the spicy seared shrimp in my wok about 15 times already. It is SO delicious. I can't believe I actually made something so tasty. Just learning how to make that is worth the price of the book. More Reviews