30 Minute Curries

Curry is the country's preferred dish, yet over and over again it can appear to be overwhelming to endeavor at home. In this lovely new book Michelin-featured cook and BBC's Great British Menu and Saturday Kitchen most loved Atul Kochhar tells perusers the best way to make basic curries in their own homes in only 30 minutes, changing exhausting weeknight suppers.

Dishes included feature Atul's brand name blend of utilizing the best and freshest British produce and his cutting edge Indian style, and guarantee that this book is one you will cook from on numerous occasions.

This is a book for curry darlings all over, with every one of the 90 curries included joined by dazzling photography by Mike Cooper.

About the Author
Atul Kochhar is one of the finest Indian chefs in the country, renowned for the vibrancy of his food and the subtlety of his spice mixes. He was one of the first Indian chefs to be awarded a Michelin star and he has fast become the face of Indian cuisine on British television, with regular appearances on BBC 1's Saturday Kitchen.

This is a wonderful and inspiring book. But potential buyers should be aware that the title "30 minute curries" is a bit misleading, just like Kochhar's previous book "Simple Indian". It might be possible to make these recipes in 30 minutes if you're in a well-equipped Indian restaurant kitchen. In an ordinary home kitchen they will take much longer. There is a lot of prep to be done - tamarind liquid, ginger-garlic paste (I cheated and bought mine at the Indopak store), grated fresh coconut etc. The onion paste which features in a majority of the recipes takes 45 minutes (Kochhar says 25) of watchful cooking to get made properly and 1/2 kilo of onions amounted to about 5 tablespoons of paste, enough for about two dishes. There are a lot of ingredients to buy if you are a novice Indian cook, and you also have to buy a lot of ingredients where you will only use a small portion of what you've bought - a few tablespoons of passata here, a few tablespoons of coconut milk there. Kochhar also sometimes complicates instructions unnecessarily. Example: "Get the potatoes cooking as quickly as possible. Halve the potatoes, adding the halves to the boiling water as you cut. Be careful that the water doesn’t splash you as you add them to the pan. Recover the pan and return the water to the boil, then boil, then boil the potatoes for 8 minutes." Why not just write: "Halve the potatoes and boil them for 8 minutes"? All this being said, if you're willing to put some effort into your Indian cooking this book is highly rewarding and beautifully produced. I can't wait to try the next recipe.-Mikhalebrug

Tasty authentic results so far. These are speedy because of the pre-mixed pastes you will need to make and store in the fridge or freezer. Useful if you intend lots of curry eating which was exactly my intention. Some constituents aren't easily available but can be obtained online.-Jfhall

Helpful, clear, straightforward; all the recepies are easy to follow. I value particularly the section at the back telling you how to make staples. What is more the recepies work and are delicious.-Brabant