A practical cook book (Indian Food Made Easy - Anjum Anand)

Member Name: kiran8

Product:	Indian Food Made Easy - Anjum Anand
Date:	08/10/08 (175 review reads)
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Advantages: Healthy and easy to make recipes

Disadvantages: none

==About the Author Anjum Anand==

Anjum Anand , born in London , studied in Paris and Switzerland.She comes from a business background and herself holds a degree in European business administration.
Having weight problems in her teen years, she began experimenting with rich and high calorie Indian food and came up with her now famous light and healthy recipes.She became a regular guest on UKTV Food's Great Food Live and featured in the BBC Two series Indian Food Made Easy in the recent years .
She contributes regularly to the Times Online food pages and has been with the Birds Eye brand developing a range of healthy Indian food.
Her published works include:-

Indian Every Day: Light, Healthy Indian Food
Indian Food Made Easy (2007)
and the latest
Anjum's New Indian (2008)


==About the book==

This book has been adapted from Anjum's television series which was very popular.Most of those recipes have been included here.

Most of the recipes are her own and she has taken care not to include ingredients that are not available in the western market.Most of the ingredients mentioned are available easily in the super markets .

The book has these main chapters:-

-Introduction
-Light Meals and Snacks
-Chicken
-Meat
-Fish and Seafood
-Vegetables
-Lentils and Beans
-Bread and Rice
-Raitas and Chutneys
-Drinks and Desserts
-Glossary
-Index

She writes a brief introductory note about Indian food in general and her own experiences with regard to simplifying and making the food lighter and healthier..

There are some very interesting recipes listed here and they are all great tasting.I like the recipe that she has come up with - Green Fish curry, Masala scrambled eggs,Mussels with coconut,Spinach and lentil curry, Meat balls in curry, and a good selection of Green chutneys, lentil chutneys and Raitas.
There are a good number of rice preparations like the more common mixed vegetable and lamb pulao and Wild mushroom pulao which is an excellent recipe..some good and easy recipes for making naans and rotis too are included.

There are many recipes for starters and side dishes, mainly accompaniments with the usual rice and curry meal or the Roti and curry.They are all good recipes and come out well when tried out.
Her recipes are are not complicated and most of them can be made very quickly within a matter of minutes.She comes with a lot of practical suggestions too..

There are some nice Indian desserts like the yummy Coconut burfi, Mango and Yogurt smoothie, and the fruit jelly and Payasa, which is a jaggery based porridge made with lentils cooked in milk
with ghee ,nuts and cardomoms added for flavor and taste.

There are excellent photographs that cover almost all the dishes that are featured on the book.

Finally i would say that besides listing very easy to make recipes ,this is definitely not the usual Indian cook book that features the more popular Tandoories, Biriyanis and Kormas which are heavy and spicy.
Here there is a lot of thought and experimentation gone in to making the dishes healthy and tasty, yet light - a boon to diet watchers

Definitely a good cook book to have in ones collection.

~~~Product details~~~

Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Quadrille Publishing Ltd (3 Aug 2007)
Language: English

Summary: A colletion of Healthy and simple Indian recipes