A Spicy Touch: Family Favourites from Noorbanu Nimji’s Kitchen

Mouth-watering Indo–East African dishes that will become moment works of art for home cooks.

A Spicy Touch is Noorbanu Nimji's festival of her North Indian Ismaili Muslim lineage and the East African cooking from her country in Kenya. Noorbanu works together with food author and visit administrator Karen Anderson to introduce in excess of 200 reliable family top choices and new plans.

With lovely photos, the book makes the home cook stride by venture through soups and bites, samosa-wrapping, three sections of fundamental dishes (counting Noorbanu's popular Butter Chicken and Beef Nihari), a committed part on Indian roasted flame broiling, vegetables, daal, Indian breads and rice dishes, chutneys and claim to fame Indian desserts. Figure out how to make:

Bhajias – chickpea flour vegetable pakoras
Kuka Paka – chicken, eggs and potatoes in an unobtrusively spiced coconut cream
Chana wagharia – chickpeas and eggplant in a hot tamarind sauce
Bharazi and mandazi – pigeon pea curry with East African coconut doughnuts
Badam Pak – a smooth cardamom and almond fudge
What's more, some more

Numerous plans are veggie lover as well as without gluten and all unique plans have been re-tried and changed to mirror the expanded accessibility of fixings today. With an all-inclusive area on storeroom things, and tips and methods that can just come from an expert, perusers will feel the creators next to them while they set up the 200+ plans. Welcome Noorbanu into your kitchen and discover for yourself why she's viewed as the master in her field by individuals everywhere on the world.

About the Author
Noorbanu NimjiNoorbanu Nimji is an East African Ismaili Muslim with ancestral roots in Northern India. Her family moved to Canada in 1974. Soon after her arrival in Calgary, Noorbanu was asked to teach cooking to youth in the local Ismaili community. She taught for a decade before beginning to publish her recipes. She self-published three cookbooks prior to beginning the manuscript for A Spicy Touch, with sales of over 250,000 copies.

Karen Anderson is the owner of Alberta Food Tours Inc. and co-author of the guidebook Food Artisans of Alberta. She has led seven tours to India and has cooked with chefs all over the country. Since 2006, she has worked with Noorbanu Nimji, testing recipes and teaching Indian cooking classes.

Pauli-Ann Carriere is a photographer and entrepreneur who lives in Vancouver, B.C. Her photographic art captures transitory encounters of people, places, colours, texture and light. Pauli-Ann is a featured artist at Provide Home in Vancouver.

A really useful book. --Kisman

Amazing cook book containing incredible Eat African Indian recipes. Bought a few for family members. --Sheila

Loved the recipes that we have tried so far. Most of the recipes in the book are simple and require staple ingredients that are found in an Indian khoja kitchen. The book also has some really good tips in the preface section. I highly recommend this for any beginner looking to learn East-African/Indian style cooking. Looking forward to ordering the other volumes once they are available on Amazon! --Nikhat