Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day

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Whether you are vegetarian, want to eat more vegetables, or just want to make great, modern Indian food, this is the book for you. While my family gravitated toward the fresh, the vibrant, and the seasonal, Indian food in the UK was often heavy, swimming in brown sauce and lacking in variety.

Cook from the Book: Fresh India - The Happy Foodie Cook from the Book: Fresh India - The Happy Foodie

To celebrate the release of Meera Sodha’s hotly anticipated cookbook, Fresh India, a team of Happy Foodies have been cooking from the book all week.

My second book, Fresh India, was published in July 2016 and is a celebration of India’s love of vegetables.

Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes

Finally, add the chard leaves, coat with the mixture and pop the lid back on for a final 2 to 3 minutes, until the leaves have wilted. Many have come from my travels all over India and the people I have met along the way, from home cooks to street stall vendors, temple cooks to chefs in top restaurants.

To serve, scatter the raisins and toasted almonds over the top of the cauliflower, and serve with rice or chapattis (see page 288 of Fresh India by Meera Sodha).

About – Meera Sodha

When writing recipes for Fresh India, Sodha would consider whether to use the vegetable in a twist on a traditional recipe – her matar paneer dish uses two types of peas – or to use Indian spices to create something new. This vibrant and delicious Coriander Chutney Chicken from Meera’s Made in Indiacookbook is quick and simple to make. Here are surprising recipes for every day made using easy-to-find ingredients: Mushroom and Walnut Samosas, Oven-Baked Onion Bhajis, and Beet and Paneer Kebabs. Sodha wanted to shine a light not only on Gujarati food, but on the rich variety of Indian cooking, so at odds with the brown, indistinct rogan joshes, kormas and baltis of some high-street curry houses.There’s the odd difficult to get ingredient,mid you don’t have an Asian grocer near you, but otherwise most ingredients will be to hand. What I thought: I made Meera’s aubergine and pea curry to accompany a night in watching the football. If you like, finish off the dish with a quick curry-leaf tarka: put 2 tablespoons of oil into a small frying pan over a medium to high heat.