It would have been far better for the author to create her own unique recipe for a specific blend to use in certain recipes than to suggest a blend for fragrance that would deliver a questionable result. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Ridiculously simplifying the spice journey by providing (a) the overall picture - (the spice tree) (b) the spice combinations used - before, during and after the preparation (c) pouring into each spice (d) and answering the why and what if's through the journey, it makes the education for the beginner very easy and quickly provides the confidence to enter the kitchen and whip up a spice dish.

The Spice Tree by Nisha Katona | Simple, Authentic Indian

Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. For beginners it is a perfect takeoff, for those with intermediate knowledge it provides a confirmation and a fresh new way to look into the spice world, for the experts it is a great refresher.The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal. Highly logistical experience given that we only have two saucepans and two frying pans (and two hands each).

The Spice Tree : Indian Cooking Made Beautifully Simple The Spice Tree : Indian Cooking Made Beautifully Simple

The book is excellent - not quite got my head round Nisha's thinking - but the recipes and stories are brilliant. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. If you like your curry scented rather than just od'ed on Cayenne Pepper, this is a handy book to have on the kitchen shelf. The author, here is one of those rare teachers, that teaches the complex subject with the required deftness.Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. The author has excluded a number of regions in the book which leaves a hole in the overall understanding of spices and their place in Indian cuisine. The Spice Tree shows you which spices and ingredients always go together in the Indian kitchen while Nisha’s recipes for generous, aromatic, flavorsome home cooking bring these ancient formulas to life. With 15 minutes extra there was still too much bite to the cabbage to qualify as "completely soft" or "silky".