Favourite Indian Cookbook?

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I want to start cooking more Indian food. Can anyone recommend a good cookbook to start with please?

Indian Kitchen by Maunika Gowardhan is brilliant. I've made many delicious meals from here. She also has a website where you can see many of her recipes.

Fresh India by Meera Sodha

One of my favourites is Made in India as the recipes are similar to the type of food I grew up with (authentic Indian recipes but substituting more readily available ingredients) and all the recipes are fairly straightforward.

Another book I use a lot is this one by Meena Patak (of Patak’s curry paste fame). It’s very cheap second hand.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/184330161X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3

I love Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Easy as a starter base. It really got me into cooking.

Just don't make the mistake I did and use Birds Eye chillies instead of Kashmiri. Ouch it was hot!

Indian Cooking by Lalita Ahmed, it's older but you can get it on eBay. I love it.

I really like I heart curry by Anjum Anand and Made in India by Meera Sodha

I'm another one who loves Meera Sodha, both Made in India (meat, fish, and veg) and Fresh India (entirely vegetarian).

I'd be a little bit more specific if I were you. Are you after traditional Indian recipes or British Indian Restaurant style ones? Also, does it have to be a book? There are a lot of excellent resources in the web and most of them are free.

Raghavan Iyer's 660 curries! Traditional Indian food, great recipes. I like spicy food, but I start with about 1/3 of the spice level a recipe from this book suggests and it's perfect.

East by Meera Sodha

I am Indian but I live in the US where depending on where you live Indian spices are not quite as easily available. I learned to cook from Madhur Jeffrey initially. But then turned to Indian Home Cooking by Suvir Saran. I have tried the cookbooks by Chetna Makan and they are not bad although I find the spicing a little too mellow.
A new discovery has been the cookbooks by Mallika Basu. She’s Bengali like me and the food tastes very much like what I ate growing up, aka it’s as authentic as it gets.

Another vote for Madhur Jaffrey. I've owned "Indian Cooking" for 40 years. The recipes are simple to follow and always taste great.

Controversial perhaps, but the rick stein India book has never let me down. Bonus is that you can also watch the TV show and get doubly inspired. (I am not a rick stein fan at all usually! There was just something wonderful about both the series and then the book)

Another vote for Madhur Jaffrey,I have also cooked from her books for about 35years.You can often find them on eBay or in Charity Shops.

Madhur Jaffery's Indian Cookery was always my favourite.

50 Great Curries of India by Camellia Panjabi. My go to for 25 years.

I love the Dishoom book. Everything I've made from it has been absolutely delicious.
Not quick recipes, but really really good ones!

(having said that, my favourite is the Chicken Berry Biryani, which is available online...)

Another one for Made In India

Mowgli street food by nisha katona

I like the Rick Stein one as well, but don't know how 'authentic' it is - I just like his food, so bought his India book and we have liked all the things we have made so far.

Hope to get the Madhur Jaffrey one soon, as it is supposed to be a proper classic.

I've had the Madhur Jaffrey book for over 30 years, but the spicing is definitely dumbed down for what she thought the British would like, so I increase the quantities.
I like the Three Sisters books for what seems more like home cooking, They're also easy to follow & I've enjoyed everything I've cooked from them.

I really like the Dishoom cookbook. The food is very specific and regional (Mumbai, largely Parsi). But it's very good and the recipes generally are properly authentic to what you'd get in Mumbai (we used to live there), with minor modifications for what's easy to source in the UK.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I'm going to look through and start cooking