The Indian Vegetarian Cookbook

Super recipes, great background, simple to make, photography is appealing. All in, a purchase worth the price

The book is well organized , it has many pictures but the recipes are not easy to do and ingredients not easy to find ! The chapters of the book are organized by ingredients which is a bit original . I love Indian cuisine but I would not suggest to buy this book, there are so many better alternatives!!!

The book

We have used this cook book for the last four months to cook various dishes. When following the recipes the results vary from bland to inedible. The recipes often miss ingredients in the listing of ingredients, or do not actually use the ingredients listed. Whole steps in the cooking process are often left out. In one of the curries potatoes need to be added at the end of the recipe, right before serving. Mind you, these potatoes were not cooked at any previous steps. We decided to stew the whole thing for a bit. The resulting curry was not edible at all. In another dish 200 grams of sugar are added to a curry resulting in a savoury dish that is sweeter than the average marshmallow. That was actually one of the better results, as we could just blend the whole thing, add a stock to it, dilute it to something more of the sweetness of a soup, and eat it as such. For this book, I would call that a success story. So would I recommend this book to any one? Not really. I do have a recommendation to the publisher though, in the next edition, just remove the text, and just publish the photos. They are lovely, and maybe if you are just likely to reverse engineer the dish from the picture as from the 'recipes.' This book is really a let down.

I gave this book 5 stars for the following reasons 1. It's simple to follow - I am NOT a professional chef. I wanted a book which will be easy to follow and make my dinner delicious 2. Ingredients are easily available - If some dish in a book needs me to pluck the third blooming flower from a particular tree found at the foothills of Munnar, I am going to get annoyed. I want to eat food which brings back memories using ingredients I can find in an Indian food store 3. Photos - I KNOW how my food should look like - This book guides me step by step till my food looks somewhat like what the author wants it to be

o livro chegou para mim em um plástico, assim que retirei tinha defeito nas orelhas (rasgo). E a primeira página esta com a brochura danificada. Fiquei bem insatisfeita pois ia dar de presente. O conteúdo em si me parece ser bacana e as fotos são lindas.