Format: | Hardback | Pagination: | 256 pages, 700 colour photos | Dimensions: | 297 x 228 mm | Country of Pub.: | India | Pub Date: | 2006 |
Description:
Curry brings together an inspirational collection of recipes and shows just how easy it is to make delicious and authentic curries at home. This essential volume opens with a look into the background of curries to discover how eating habits and the use of ingredients have been shaped over the centuries. For novice curry chefs the basics of curry-making are fully explained, and there is a useful directory-style guide to the essential elements of curries, including practical information on using spices and key ingredients such as root ginger, tamarind, coconut milk and lemon grass, making curry pastes and powders, and cooking perfect rice and noodles.
• The definitive guide to mouth-watering, authentic curries from all corners of the Indian sub-continent and from Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Malaysia and the islands of Indonesia and the Philipines.
• Over 150 traditional recipes for meat, fish and vegetarian curries, rices, noodles and breads, pickles, chutneys, raitas and sambals, including world classics and unusual regional specilaities.
• Step-y-step recipe presentation takes you through each stage of preparation, with sumptuous full colour photographs for every featured dish. |