Cookbook Giveaway: Complete Book of Indian Cooking

indian cookingIndian cooking offers a wide variety of different dishes, due to the country’s size, geography, history and diversity. Author Suneeta Vaswani provides hundreds of recipes in her “Complete Book of Indian Cooking,” (Robert Rose Publishing).  You can win this book by leaving a comment at the end of this blog post!

Each recipe includes background information that helps the home cook become more knowledgeable about — and comfortable with — Indian food.

Some of the 350 exotic, yet easy, recipes include:

  • Starters like fenugreek and spinach fritters (methi palak pakoras), and steamed corn bread (corn dhoklas)
  • Bengali shrimp and long squash (lau chingri); fried dumplings with yogurt and chutney (pahi pakodi chaat)
  • Kerala lamb biriyani; assamese roast chicken (poora kukura); Coory egg and potato curry
  • Vegetarian delights like curried spinach and cheese (saag panir), and chickpea flour dumplings (besan ke gatte)
  • Refreshing desserts like baked bananas with coconut and jaggery.

There’s also a chapter on Indian meal traditions and customs.

For a chance to win this book, please leave a comment at the end of this blog post, with your thoughts on Indian cooking! Deadline is Tuesday, March 1!

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