"Indian Food Made Easy" is the accompaniment to the first of Anand's series of the same name that was shown on BBC 2 in half-hour slots on BBC 2 in 2007. There was also a second series which was accompanied by the book "Anjum's New Indian". The success of these two series led the BBC to expand on the "Made Easy" franchise with series that followed as introductions in Caribbean and Chinese food. The book itself is well presented and photographed with a glossy cover. The pages themselves are quite glossy and although I have splashed them with various ingredients over the course of cooking from them, but compared to a lot of my ...  Read the complete review

I loved the BBC2 series and I was really looking forward to the book, and I wasn't disappointed. The curries she makes are excellent, full of flavour but not necessarily hot. I have made most of the chicken and meat (lamb) curries in the book, pilau rice and even naan bread (which was really easy!) Often you find that with most indian cookbooks you need a vast array of herbs and spices. Not so with this book. Most of the herbs and spices used are ones most cooks would already have in the store cupboard. (Garlic, ginger, garam masala, coriander, tomatoes) So if you stuck for something to eat one night you can quickly make up a curry (only thing i don't often ...  Read the complete review

Indian Food Made Easy - Anjum Anand I am not a great cook, so books to make cooking anything easier is always a plus in our house, and this book in particular is one I really love as Indian food is a firm favourite of mine, though before getting this book and a couple other Indian cookbooks, my attempts at preparing and cooking an Indian dish was something to be desired. Now, though, my Indian dishes do not come out too badly and I think a lot of that is to do with this book. This book came out as a supplement to the BBC 2 series back in 2007, though I admit that I did not see this. I actually found this book for a mere 50p at a carboot sale ...  Read the complete review

Not only is this the best Indian cookery book I own, it was also the first I owned from Anjum. It's so good that i went on to get more books written by her because they are just so darn good! I watched the 'Indian food made easy' series on the BBC and loved Anjum's style of cooking and the accompanying book did not let me down. Full of basic but delicious recipes, for a relative beginner to Indian cooking like me it was just what I needed. There are a fair few chapters to this book which are as follows - Light meals and snacks chicken meat fish and seafood vegetables lentils and beans bread and rice raitas and ...  Read the complete review