Madhur Jaffrey's Quick & Easy Indian Cooking

                                               
" Quick & Easy Indian Cooking " by author Madhur Jaffrey has more than 50 delicous recipes from Soup to Sweets which most of it can be prepared in approximately 30 mins. The cookbook gives you recipes with only few ingedients and with substitutions such as some recipes says beef however substitution with lamb or chicken is allowed. The book is going to be favorite with the novice to expert cook because of the easy to follow recipes with basic ingredients. The book talks about the ingredients, utensils and other basic requirement for cookingalong with recipes without feeling intimidated to cooking these Indian recipes.
This book will serve as a great start to Indian cooking book for beginner's.

About the author: Madhur Jaffrey is a cookbook author, TV chef, illustrator, and award-winning actress originally from Delhi, India. She's won the Burt Greene Award for Food Journalism and lives in New York City.


Pros: Easy understanding recipe with few ingredients and substitution.
Cons: This recipes are Indian but not the authentic ones, well that is why you can make them so quick as title says, however not all of them though.
Overall: Nice Book
Book can be purchased at Amazon and Chroniclebooks.com
ISBN 0811859010

ISBN13 9780811859011

Thank you Chronicle Books for review copy. Picture and Author's Bio copyright Chronicle Books
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The "I Dont Know How to Cook" Book Mexican

Recently, I was sent couple of books out of which 1 was The : I Dont Know How to Cook" Book Mexican by Linda Rodriguez. I love Mexican food and am always on a lookout for mexican recipes which are quick and easy to fix.
This book has 300 recipes. In the book there are 12 main categories in which each category has recipes for that. The book starts with Introduction which explains everything you need to know to make mexican food. Each recipe in the book is grouped and classified by symbols like E (Easy), M (Medium), H (Hard).
The books has easy and mouth-watering recipe with step by step instruction's for Appetizer's & Salsa's, Soups & Stew's, Salad's, Beef & Pork, Poultry & Eggs, Fish & Sea-food, Vegetables, Rice and Bean Dishes, Fruit, Desserts & Traditional Favorites.

Whether you want to cook for your family or for friend's, This book will definately have something that will be helpful to fix easily.

About the Author: Linda Rodriguez has been cooking Mexican-American meals for family and friends for most of her life. She has fond memories of the feasts of mole and tamales that accompanied every wedding and quinceanera. she still remembers the early days of her marriage when she made six dozen enchiladas, carnitas with chile, and a big pot of pozole for her husband's college graduation party---with only a hot plate and a toaster oven! She resides in Kansas City, MO.

Pro's: Easy and quick recipes
Con's: No pictures of recipes

Overall: Good  Book

Publisher: Adams Media
ISBN:9781598696073


Book can be purchased at : Adamsmediastore.com, Amazon
Copyright of Adams Media: Book cover picture and Author's bio.
Thanks to Adams Media for review copy.

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Quick Fried Rice...Veg/NonVeg

The recipe is for non-veg fried rice but you can skip the non-veg ingredients while cooking.

Ingredients:

Leftover Rice

1 small onion chopped

2 eggs (Whip the egg white and yolk and keep aside)

Handful of chopped spring onions

Oil 1 tbspn

1 tspn soysauce

Salt to taste

Black pepper powder 1/4 tspn

1 green chilli chopped

Maggie Veg- masala cubes( found in local indian grocery stores)

Rice:

If you are using leftover rice it is great but if you dont have left over prepare rice atleast 2-3 hrs in advance.Cook rice only 90%.

Preparation

In a pan add oil, chopped onions, greenchilli and pepper and fry for 2-3 mins.Then add egg and mix it well.Add spring onion and fry for another minute.Add Soysauce, salt and maggie veg-masala and mix it well for 2-3 mins.Now add rice and mix it well.Keep on gas stove for 2-3 mins.

Tadaaa...the rice is ready....isn't that quick.

Serve it with hot chilli chicken or veg paneer chilli.the one displayed in photo is chilli chicken.

My photo clicking skill's aren't that great...i am sure you can make out by now from the pic above...hehehe

Also would appreciate comments if you have prepared any of the recipes.

Egg Curry

Ingredient:

6 Eggd boiled ( cut egg into half)
1 large sized Onion chopped
1 medium sized tomato chopped
1 tbspn ginger-garlic paste
1-2 green chillies chopped
1/2 bunch of coriander leaves chopped
Hanful of mint leaves chopped
1 tspn Chilli powder
1/2 tspn turmeric powder
1 tspn Coriander-cummin powdet
1/2 tspn fenugreek leaves
1 tspn Cummin seeds
Pinch of asefotida
2 tbspn Oil
1 cup water
Salt to taste

Preparation Method:

Grind coriander leaves,mint , green chillies and half of chopped onion in a fine paste and keep aside.

Keep some chopped coriander, greenchillies and mint leaves for adding it in curry later.

In a pan add oil then add cummin seeds, when they start spluttering add onions and green chillies.Saute onions till they are slight brown.Add ginger-garlic paste and mix,then add green masala paste which was prepared earlier and kept aside and tomatoes.Fry this masala for 10-12 mins.

Add red chilli, turmeric,asefotida, salt ,coriander-cumin powder and fenugreek leaves .Mix it well and let it cook for another 10 mins Add water and when the curry starts boiling add chopped coriander and mint along with the eggs.

Let it cook for 5 more mins and your egg curry is ready!!!

Egg Bhurjee

One of my another quickest and easiest recipe....

Ingredients:

4-5 Eggs well beaten

1 medium sized Onion finely chopped

1 medium sized Tomato finely chopped

1-2 Green chillies chopped

1/4th cup of chopped coriander leaves

1 tspn Red chilli powder

1/2 tspn Turmeric powder
1/2 tbspn Coriander-Cummin powder

1/2 tspn black pepper powder

1 tbspn Oil

Salt to taste

Preparation Method:

In a pan take 1 tbspn oil, add onion,green chillies and saute till onions are transparent.Then add all masala powder and fry for 2-3 mins. Add chopped tomatoes and mix well, when the tomatoes are soft add egg , chopped coriander leaves , salt and mix it again.

Once the egg bhurjee is semi-dry turn off the gas.

Serve it with bread, goes really well.