Topic: Chicken Tikka - better than the BIRs

[romain]

What would your list be today, T63, with the benefit of a further 13 years' experience ?

Can you name a quality Indian cookbook or two?

For me it has to be:

• 50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi (even with the errors)
• Indian Cookery by Madhur Jaffrey
• Classic Indian Cookery by Julie Sahni
• A Taste Of Punjab by Lali Nayar
• Tandoor by Ranjit Rai (especially with the BBQ season upon us)
• Indian Cookery, A Practical Guide by Dharamjit Singh

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** Phil.

That is a searching question. Of the books I first named only the Maddhur Jeffrey still gets extensively used. I have my original BBC paperback that is now tattered, torn and stained and that goes into the kitchen with me. A clean copy of the same book resides on the shelf, picked up seemingly unused in an oxfam shop, and I have the large glossy format with pictures released by the BBC a few years back for perusing in an armchair.
Recently I have worked through a lot of Vivek Singhs book as well as some of the more recent authors and my Indian Cookbook collection consists of 130 plus books.

I think that the above list were the special books that I really relied on back in the day but, nowadays, I have certain recipes in a number of cookbooks to fall back on depending on who is around and what is available.

I

[Peripatetic Phil]

And his earlier Curry, curry, curry

[Garp]

so went into the spare bedroom cum library to search a few minutes ago

You have a cum library?

[Peripatetic Phil]

I and about half-a-million others, it would seem ...

[Garp]

Oh I would bet it's more than half a million mate 

[Naga]

so went into the spare bedroom cum library to search a few minutes ago

You have a cum library?

Shades of Dick Emery!

[mickyp]

I knew it,.....You are Awful, but i like you

[mickyp]

so went into the spare bedroom cum library to search a few minutes ago

You have a cum library?

Actually the first one was created in a Portsmouth Hospital in 1824 by a load of discharged seamen

[Garp]

 

[Peripatetic Phil]

Actually the first one was created in a Portsmouth Hospital in 1824 by a load of discharged seamen

All of whom served alongside Seaman Staines and Roger the cabin boy under the infamous Master Bates, no doubt ...