New Indian Home Cooking: More Than 100 Delicious, Nutritional and Easy Low-Fat Recipes: A Cookbook

by Madhu Gadia

Book Overview

"Gadia brings quintessential Indian dishes like specialty breads and tandoori chicken within easy reach of the home cook."--Publishers Weekly"Healthful Indian recipes aplenty...a welcome addition to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557883432
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: HP Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

Basic Indian Cooking

I think this book is intended for people of non-Indian origin. It is not an interesting cookbook. Most of the vegetable recipes in the book are along the same pattern. The flavor of a dish I made was very bland. There are no pictures in the book so you don't know how the dish looks like. The index is of no value. As an example, if you want to know what to do with fennel seeds, the index does not cross-reference the actual recipes that uses it. The index tells you the description is on page 38. If you are looking for a comprehensive Indian cookbook, this book is not.

Best ever!

I am an American who cooks for my Indian husband, and I've tried several cookbooks. This is the best--easy, and uses the same basic 10 spices so you don't have to go out and buy all sorts of spices you've never heard of. I wore out my first copy, and I seriously had to buy another!

eat Indian flavors without the guilt!

I love Indian food but as I have to "watch what I eat these days" I thought Indian food was gone forever. This book is great at giving that nice Indian taste without the fat. I will say it skips the final tempering process so common in traditional cooking, but let's face it, frying several tablespoons of oil with spices and dumping it all on top of a healthy dhal just isn't good for you, neither is it necessary. I use this book a lot even when I am cooking for friends and everyone seems to enjoy it.

Great-tasting dishes without a lot of fuss

What a delight to find an Indian cookbook filled with wonderful recipes that don't take three+ hours to prepare and aren't laden with fat! I can whip up these recipes with one hand, bathe my kid with the other, and still be ready to sit down and eat in less than an hour. Yum. Read Madhur Jaffrey's _Indian Cooking_ for the theory, then pick up this book and start cooking.

Well written, homestyle recipes...

I found this book under its old title "Lite and Luscious Indian Cuisine" at the library. I am hoping that only the title has changed, because it's a great book! Ms. Gadia writes in a very conversational way... I feel as though she comes through as a "real person" rather than just an "author"...the recipes are really down to earth as is her writing style. Not many esoteric ingredients are called for (I have a problem sometimes with pantry overload from Indian/Asian cooking...I probably have more kinds of spices in my cupboard than the average Indian person!). It bothers me at times in certain cookbooks when a recipe calls for half a teaspoon of a particular hard to find spice, then doesn't call for that ingredient again in the rest of the book. One ends up with a real overload of spices if you are not cooking Indian every day (especially if you are not cooking for a large family to begin with). In this book some ingredients might be specialized, (asafetida, cardamom pods, etc.) but most of the recipes seem to utilize what is available on hand in your average town (Ms. Gadia lives and works in Ames, Iowa...not New York or Chicago). Those who are on specialized diets will appreciate her tables for food exchanges and nutritional info, too. All around, this seems truly to be "home cooking" and a labor of love!

A total find

Wonderful. Makes Indian cooking easy to learn. Includes nutritional analyses, including calories, grams of fat protein and carbohydrates for each recipe, along with meal planning instructions for a healthy diet. All of the recipies are delicious and healthy at the same time. There are many simple recipies that can be prepared in a short time. I was lucky to find this cookbook at random in a bookstore, and it has totally changed my diet. I would choose my own food made from this cookbook over eating out any day.