Asma’s Indian Kitchen
April 1, 2019 by Jenny
Asma’s debut cookbook, Asma’s Indian Kitchen: Home-Cooked Food Brought to
You by Darjeeling Express pays homage to the author’s
royal Mughlai ancestry and the busy streets of Kolkata, where she
grew up. Winner of a World Gourmand award in the Indian Food
Category UK, this title has made many best book lists in
2018.
The author’s bio is impressive. After completing her law degree
she went on to earn a PhD in British Constitutional Law at Kings
College London. Cooking was always her passion which spurred Asma
to register for a food business. As mentioned above, Asma is a
staunch advocate for social change and will be the first British
Chef to star in Netflix’s award-winning series Chef’s
Table.
Asma’s Indian Kitchen was published in the
US in February of this year by Interlink Books (and in the UK by
Pavilion in October 2018). It is beautifully photographed with
chapters organized as follows heavily focusing on feasts: Feasts
for Two, Family Feasts, Feasting with Friends, and Celebratory
Feasts. The book ends with menu suggestions to guide the reader in
preparing an Indian spread.
The dishes here are approachable with ingredients available at
most major markets. There are recipes that I haven’t come across
myself before in an Indian cookery book. Those dishes
include Chicken chaap (a unique dish from
Bengal), Spicy roast beef, and Broccoli with nigella seeds and
egg.
We have a number of Asma’s recipes indexed from various
publications that you can try now, as well as three from
this particular book:
- Eggs in tomato gravy (Hyderabadi tamatar ka cutt)
- Tomato chutney with prunes and apricots (Tamatar ki chutney)
- Chicken chaap
Pavilion is offering 1 copy of this book to EYB Members in the UK and Interlink is offering 2 copies to members in the US. One of the entry options is to answer the following question in the comments section of this blog post.
Which recipe in the index would you try first?
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