'Anjum's New Indian' - anyone got it?

[misshardbroom]

DH bought me 'Anjum's New Indian' for Christmas, and there's loads of recipes in it that I want to cook.

Do any of you have this book, and if so, can you recommend any favourites (or warn me of any disasters!)?

I got it out the library recently and I made something delicious, but I can't remember what! Sorry.

One of my current faves is Pork Vindaloo (lovely and aromatic & reminds me of Goa) & my family also love Bengali Squash with chickpeas.

Thanks - will try to narrow it down a bit! I work with a lot of Goan families so I'm especially interested in trying the Goan recipes.

I have got it and tried a couple of things - the (thinking of top of my head so teh names may not be exactly right) lamb with pickling spices and the gujerati stew with duimplings. Both are excellent - the picking spices one is very pungent and strong albeit not exactly spicy, and the gujerati stew is delicious, though I have replaced the chickpeas and sweet potrator with just normal spud (all I have).

It is a very good cookbook in my view and I am looking forward to trying some more recipes.

One of my most cooked curries (we eat curry a lot in this house, I normally cook 2 a week) is Vindaloo, however I use the recipe from Camellia Panjabi's Currieso f India which is excellent, so have not looked at the Anjum Amand one closely, however I think all vindaloos are similar - effectievly as long as you have a quantity of tamarind, vinegar and jaggery, and curry leaves, as well as copious amounts of chilli, you have a vindaloo. Plus you can adjust the spiciness of the vindaloo, you can reduce the chilli quantity and replace with hot paprika for less heat.

ooh, never thought of knocking back the chilli in favour of paprika.

DH & I both love food with a bit of a kick to it, and DS1 is turning out the same. But he's only 5 and I don't want to put him off experimenting with Asian food by giving him something that's way too hot.

We're lucky to live in a very multi-ethnic part of town so there's a shop two blocks away run by an Indian family who stock all the different ingredients listed at the back of the book, although I do still need to buy a spice grinder to make my own mixtures.