They’ve transformed the cookery space in the UK, leading the one-tin, one-pot and one-pan revolution, and remain firm favourites among fans of maximum-flavour, minimum-hassle cooking. India Express is a substantial book packed with great ideas for quick-to-prepare dishes with some punchy flavours that are not overly spicy.

Keeping with her ethos of 'minimum effort, maximum flavour', these dishes are vibrant, achievable and moreish. There is a lot to choose from in this new cookbook which is timely because as the weather cools my mind and stomach turn to food that warms and comforts. All of the above - which, together with more personal material than her previous work, makes India Express a must-have. Rukmini is also the author of The Green Barbecue, a collection of vegetarian and vegan barbecue recipes. The next day I had a vegetarian friend for dinner and I chose all-in-one aubergine, tomato and nigella seed curry.She grew up in Cambridgeshire with the best of three food cultures: Bengali and South Indian food from her parents’ Indian heritage, along with classic eighties' mac and cheese, sponge pudding, and cheese and pineapple on a stick. She is a die-hard Francophile – speaking French helps tremendously – but put her anywhere and she is happy.

Inspired by a train journey between her parents' home towns of Kolkata and Chennai, India Expressis a collection of 75 south Indian and Bengali recipes, and Rukmini Iyer's seventh book. There are few households without one or more of the books in the series, which consists of The Roasting Tin, The Green Roasting Tin, The Quick Roasting Tin, The Roasting Tin Around the World, and The Sweet Roasting Tin. Now, with the publication of India Express, she hones in on her own culinary heritage to create a set of 75 recipes inspired by the vibrant flavours of South India and Bengal.We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. The resulting cookbook, India Express, is unsurprisingly Rukmini’s most personal to date, with seventy-five of her family’s Bengali and South Indian recipes adapted to her trademark maximum flavour, minimum fuss style. This collection follows Iyer's wildly successful roasting tin series, rightly considered cookbooks for our times. MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF 'THE ROASTING TIN SERIES': 75 SIMPLE, FRESH AND DELICIOUS RECIPES. I was pleased to find that the recipes are pescatarian in that they are either vegetarian, vegan or fish based.