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Anjum's New Indian
by Anjum Anand

Product Description
Contains all the recipes from the second series of 'Indian Food Made Easy' now shown on BBC2 Following the huge success of Anjum's television debut in BBC's 'Indian Food Made Easy', the same team has come together again for a new series and accompanying book, this time focusing on regional Indian cooking. Based on the same principles - light, modern Indian food for today's busy cooks - Anjum has now created a new collection of delicious dishes that are easy and often quick to put together and full of flavour. All the recipes from the television series are here as well as many more, divided into chapters on Brunches and Light Meals, Seafood, Chicken, Lamb, Vegetables, Beans and Lentils, Bread and Rice, Raitas and Chutneys. In addition, Anjum gives tips for using core Indian ingredients and the book includes features on the cooking of different regions, as well as suggestions for menus and entertaining.

About the Author
Anjum Anand grew up in London and Switzerland, and regularly visits family in Delhi and Calcutta. She has worked in the trend-setting Café Spice in New York and for Tommy Tang and the Mondrian Hotel in Los Angeles. Anjum is the presenter of BBC2 s Indian Food Made Easy and has also appeared on UKTV s Great Food Live. Her last book, Indian Food Made Easy, was an instant bestseller and one of the Top 10 cookbooks of 2007.

Simple yet tasty indian food 2008
Reviewer: Dazzer

I've watched the TV series with interest so I thought I'd take the plunge and buy Anjums new book. There are a lot of new recipes I've not heard of before in here but the first one I tried was the good old vindaloo. I was a little skeptical because there didn't seem to be a lot of ingredients but as it turned out it made a delicious curry. These proberbly aren't pure authentic Indian recipes but that's not what the book is claiming, after all the series is called Indian food made easy.
I've bought several so called Indian cook books that failed to deliver but this is not one of them. I'm definately going to be hunting out other books by the same author.

Don't know what that other person is talking about! 2008
Reviewer: C Elliott "Char"

I have recently bought this book, as I have her other one and use it all the time, and I love it! This is a classic easy, simple Indian cooking book. She makes things easy and interesting by explaining where the traditional dishes come from and what they were made for in the first place.

I think this book is aimed to make Indian food more accesable to the English to make, rather than the curries etc that we are used to from takeaways. Her writing is fun and approachable and she goes through everything from starters, sauces, pudding, drinks.

I for one, will be buying other titles of hers and would urge people who like simple, easy Indian traditional cuisine without the fuss and expense of a takeawy to buy this book!

Great Cookbook for Light, Modern Indian Meals 2008
Reviewer: AngelicOne

I found Anjum's latest cookbook a refreshingly light, modern take on Indian cuisine, with a fantastic selection of indian light meals and snacks, such as the Spongy Lentil Cake or Goan Chorizo Sandwich, and adapted Anglo-Indian treats like Indian Shepherd's Pie and Spicy Keralan Mash. Unlike some Indian cookbooks, that can focus too much on just curry's, this book offers stews, sundal's and a plethora of fish, chicken, meat, vergetables, beans and lentils and rice suggestions. Her tips and information on the cooking in different regions of India complimented the contents well. I can't wait for her new TV series!

Hmm - aspires to be Nigella, sadly without the substance 2008
Reviewer: Niles Crane

As a great lover of Asian and in particular Indian food, I have been following the cookery book scene rather closely for years. Anand aspires to be the Nigella Lawson of Indian cuisine. Unfortunately, she fails to do so for me. Her recipes are either not Indian - and this has nothing to do with the fact that there is indeed a Noveau Indian cuisine out there - or have been presented by other authors years ago (i.e. Mehernosh Mody, Madhur Jaffrey, Mridula Baljekar). Disappointing really. This is the second book I bought from her and I don't think I will buy another one in the future.

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