Clear, easy to follow recipes help you create dishes that I previously thought you needed hours to make.

The combination of both coconut milk and creamed coconut in this curry adds a real gloss and weight to the sauce, giving it a gorgeous, velvety texture,” says food writer Nisha Katona.This popular chef starts off this colourful cookbook with a potted version of her life history. She learned to cook at her mother's side, and there are sweet pictures to prove it! You will see that she started very young indeed when she started to help Mom out in the kitchen! I was given a sample of the book to review - I hadn't realised it was an extract and therefore I feel like I am not in a good position to judge the whole book as I only saw 4 recipes.

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. I bought my daughter the Mowgli Street Food book for Christmas because, having been to the restaurant in Liverpool, she was raving about the food. She has used the book continuously and treated me to several delicious meals. So I was very keen to take a peek at this new book. My thanks to the author, publisher and NetGalley for an ARC of an EXTRACT or SAMPLING of this upcoming cookbook in exchange for an honest review. Heat 100ml/3 1⁄2fl oz of the oil in a large pan over a high heat, then add the mustard and cumin seeds and fry, stirring, until they start to pop and turn grey. Reduce the heat to medium, then add the dried chilli, onion, garlic and ginger and cook, stirring occasionally, for 8 minutes, until the onions are soft and translucent.Started when I joined a evening class at my local college in Bradford, taught by one of Bradford's restaurant chefs. So I was always looking for a good take away style recipe.

The na_tc cookie is used to recognize the visitor upon re-entry. It allows to record details on user behaviour and facilitate the social sharing function provided by Addthis.com. This is the food Nisha Katona cooks at home: punchy, delicious and taking you from couch to curry in 30 minutes or less. From the sample of recipes given, I already feel inspired. This is definitely a recipe book I would buy for myself and also as a gift for others. Aubergines love oil. They come alive with flavour and texture when they can drink as much as you will give them, and they exchange their astringency for sweet, fleshy velvet. Make sure the aubergine is fried until soft and translucent in this dish, which will take some time, but is still an easy half-hour cook. Paired with the silky aubergine, ribbons of sweet shallot weave heady magic into this timeless combination of ingredients.” the double cream into a bowl and beat with an electric or handheld whisk until soft peaks form. Add the sugar, yoghurt and mint leaves to the bowl and fold through the cream, then add the mango purée and gently ripple it through the cream mixture.

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