Asma Khan

The soul of my cooking is the symphonic layering of vibrant flavours that work together like instruments in an orchestra Asma Khan Internationally renowned chef and award winning author Asma Khan returns with a masterclass on building flavour in your cooking through the intuitive principles of Indian cookery Structured around the six core ayurvedic tastes namely Tangy Bitter Hot Sweet Sour and Salty and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal this book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving you the foundations you need to build balanced flavours dishes and sumptuous feasts With core techniques including roasting grinding and tempering spices how to cook with ghee chillies and onions and what to add and when to re balance flavours in a dish Asma will empower homecooks to apply fundamental processes intuitively to their cooking Including 80 flavourful recipes for Chicken Cooked in Pickling Spices and Slow cooked Lamb with Vinegar to the more veg forward Pumpkin Dal and Rice Pulao with Oranges this book seeks to honour traditional cooking techniques and ayurvedic principles and ground them in the modern kitchen

* The Times Cookbook of the Year 2022 *Asma Khan... is one of the most articulate, powerful voices in the world of food, and this book is her masterpiece...More than a cookbook, this is a meditation on the power of food to nourish and heal. - Bee Wilson, The TimesAn entrancing book - Nigella LawsonIndian family food with heart - the mouthwatering new cookbook from Asma Khan, founder of the iconic Darjeeling ExpressThis book is a joyful celebration of the universal power of food to restore, and to comfort. It is a tribute to Ammu, Asmas mother, to the simple home cooking from her kitchen in Calcutta, and an exploration of the inextricable link between food and love.These dishes will bring warmth to your kitchen when you need a meal or dish to share with your family and friends - from quick-and-easy Baghare Aloo and Shahi Paneer, a vegetarian staple all ages love, to Ammus Chicken Biriyani the much-requested Darjeeling Express favourite.With over 100 recipes, easy-to-follow instructions and a photograph for every dish Ammu is an essential book for anyone wanting to make Indian comfort food at home.This is the food I cook for my family every day, meals to restore and nourish. I give these recipes to you, with love. - Asma

Award-winning restaurant Darjeeling Express began life as a dinner party with friends; Indian food lovingly cooked from family recipes that go back generations. In this book, Asma reveals the secret to her success, telling her immigrants story and how food brought her home. The recipes pay homage to her royal Mughlai ancestry and follow the route of the Darjeeling Express train from the busy streets of Bengal, through Calcutta, where she grew up, and along the foothills of the Himalayas to Hyderabad. This is more than just a collection of delicious and accessible recipes, it is a celebration of heritage, culture, community and quality. Theres no need to book a flight to experience Indian home cooking Fay Maschler, Evening Standard Asma is a force of nature: bold, funny, talented, philanthropic and unstoppable Grace Dent, Grace & Flavour

La mejor cocina india doméstica de la mano de la reputadísima chef Asma Kahn, propietaria del restaurante londinense Darjeeling Express.El galardonado restaurante Darjeeling Express nació entre cenas con amigos en las que se servian delicados platos de la cocina india a partir de recetas familiares que se remontan a varias generaciones. En este libro, Asma nos cuenta como ha alcanzado el exito contando su historia, la de una inmigrante que logro forjarse un nuevo hogar gracias a la comida. Sus recetas rinden homenaje a su linaje familiar, y siguiendo el recorrido del tren de vapor Darjeeling Express, nos transportan a las concurridas calles de Bengala y Calcuta, donde Asma paso su infancia.Una seleccion de platos que con sus intensos sabores y sorprendentes texturas nos invitan a sentarnos a la mesa para disfrutar de un deliciosodawaat (festin). Ademas de un compendio de deliciosas y sencillas recetas, este libro quiere ser una celebracion de herencia, de cultura, de comunidad y de calidad.