Classic Indian Cooking Author: Visit Amazon's Julie Sahni Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0688037216 | Format: EPUB
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About the Author
Julie Sahni is director of Julie Sahni's Indian Cooking School, established in 1973.
- Hardcover: 560 pages
- Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; 1 edition (October 1, 1980)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0688037216
- ISBN-13: 978-0688037215
- Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.9 x 1.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Some eight years ago or so, I decided to try to impress both my vegetarian and non-vegetarian friends by making them some authentic Indian dishes. The only thing was, I had no real idea of what I was getting into, as almost all of the Indian food I had eaten had been in restaurants in London and the East Village in Manhattan.
Somehow I found my way to purchasing "Classic Indian Cooking." Slowly and methodically, I then made my way through the very helpful discussions about such things as roasting and crushing spices and herbs and techniques for preparing onions, garlic and ginger root as bases for various curry dishes.
I've since learned that this cookbook was ranked last year as one of six all-time cooking "bibles" by the New York Times. I can see why. It's not a picture text (although there are some helpful illustrations); it's a text for teaching yourself a wholly different cuisine whose fundamental cooking techniques may be completely foreign to many home chefs in the United States, although that seems to be changing.
There are some simply astonishing recipes in this book. You will need to take your time though, because they can be complex and may require preparation of recipe components a day ahead of the time you plan to serve your meal. You should take Julie Sahni's words to heart that cooking should be a "relaxing" enterprise.
If pressed to choose a favorite recipe, it would have to be "Keema Bhare Bandh Gobhi" (meat-stuffed cabbage rolls with ginger lemon sauce), which has a vegetarian counterpart in "Aloo Bhare Bandh Gobhi" (same cabbage rolls, but a vegetarian version stuffed with a spicy potato filling).
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