Simple Indian: The Fresh Tastes of India's New Cuisine - Books (Atul Kochhar, Paperback)

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Customer Reviews of Simple Indian: The Fresh Tastes of India's New Cuisine

Foodlexi
Cambridge, UK
29th June 2008

Simple Indian - the right title
After years of struggling for hours, stirring and stewing leaden dishes with heavy spices, it has been the most enormous relief to find this wonderful book. We ate at Benares and I bought the book as soon as I knew it existed. Since then I have cooked most of the recipes in it. They are short, clear and uncomplicated. I usually have most of the ingredients in the house or in the immediate vicinity of where I live, which makes the recipes ideal. I have fed happy vegetarians and vegans as well as the usual carnivores. I particularly like the ease with which you can produce five or six different dishes so that people can help themselves to an array of flavours, and all without it being hard labour. This is among my top three recipe books now and I recommend it with enthusiasm. I do halve the quantity of chilli in the recipes when I am cooking for people I know less well, but generally, if you are unfamiliar with Indian cooking, this is a fabulous place to start.

Michael J. Sadler

21st May 2008

same as?
recently bought 'Simple Indian' Atul Kochar only to find that it is exactly the same as 'indian Essence' also by Atul kochar. the recipes are excellent but the same book just with a different cover?
Quadrille publishing not doing Atul any favours.

Sanchita
London, UK
13th December 2007

Excellent, authentic, simple
I love this book. I've tried almost all of the recipes and, they've all been really easy to follow, and delicious, and some have even tasted like the food my mum makes.

Every time I cook these recipes for friends/family, everyone always says how tastey they are...and thats pretty good going as most of them are also Indian! Highly recommended.

Ian Pollington
Loxwood, W Sussex, UK
16th October 2007

This is not a new book!
Simple Indian was previously published as Indian Essence, by the same publishers, but this is not mentioned in the information at all - unless you notice that the synopsis is on Indian Essence and the publishers review is on Simple Indian.

Don't let this put you off the book - the recipes are excellent, well laid out and varied in their origin - just don't buy it if you already have Indian Essence!

Ian

jimbo
London
8th August 2006

Simple and Indian - and look where that got good old Atul
I really liked the look of Atul's food on that programme about cooking for the Queen, and I would give one of my lady's fingers to eat at Benares, his Berkeley Square restaurant, so I thought I'd buy his book.

It is lovely to pick it up when you're hungry as it truly inspires. There are hundreds of recipes from all over India, and the instructions are clear enough even for a simple lad like me.

My curry adventures will now be carried out in my kitchen, and I will be lost as a customer to Sharwoods and Pataks for ever more.

Nice one Atul