Brit Spice - Softcover

Malhi, Manju

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141006021 ISBN 13: 9780141006024

Publisher: Penguin, 2003

In BRIT SPICE Manju Malhi has created a whole new concept of cooking Indian food at home. The result is Brit-Indi cuisine, combining British ingredients with Indian spices. Find out how to rustle up Manju's favourite Indian meals using ingredients such as bread, bacon and baked beans.

The key to the recipes is that they are incredibly quick and easy to make. Manju gives timings at the start of each one to show that an Indian meal can be made at home in literally fifteen minutes. Quicker than a trip to the local takeaway!

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Review:

Many Indians, on arriving in this country, found a lack of their familiar cooking ingredients. The result initially, was improvisation with an eclectic mix of traditional British and authentic Indian: curried baked beans, Indian-style bubble and squeak and spam masala. With today's multicultural society and proliferation of Eastern food markets, Indian ingredients are easy to get hold of - even from the supermarket. But that fusion of Brit-Indian cookery survives, and Manju Malhi provides a fascinating insight into this peculiarly British/Indian form of cooking. Chatty, fresh writing infuses the book along with her youthful enthusiasm for the subject. Like many people today, she is keen to eat good, fresh food made in the minimum of time - hence her ten minute Chicken Korma! Chutneys, breads, puddings, vegetarian and meat dishes, the range is individual, easy-to-make and clearly explained, accompanied by tempting colour photographs to whet the appetite. Nearly all the recipes can be made within half an hour and embrace a wide range of ingredients for a truly Brit-Spice experience. - Lucy Watson

About the Author:

In 1999 voice-over artist Manju Malhi beat hundreds of other contestants to secure a guest cookery slot on BBC2's Food and Drink. Since then she has presented her own television show for Taste called 'Simply Indian' and she is the face behind Tamarind Fine Foods.

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