--- product_id: 6020879 title: "India: The Cookbook" price: "€ 109.73" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/6020879-india-the-cookbook store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # India: The Cookbook **Price:** € 109.73 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** India: The Cookbook - **How much does it cost?** € 109.73 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/6020879-india-the-cookbook) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description India: The Cookbook is the first comprehensive guide to Indian cooking, with over 1,000 recipes covering every aspect of India's rich and colourful culinary heritage. Unlike many other Indian cookbooks, it is written by an Indian culinary academic and cookbook author who lives and works in Delhi, and the recipes are a true reflection of how traditional dishes are really cooked all over India. They have been carefully edited to ensure that they are simple to follow and achievable in western kitchens, with detailed information about authentic cooking utensils and ingredients. Indian food has been hugely popular in the UK for many years, and the appetite for Indian food shows no sign of diminishing. Now, for the first time, a definitive, wide-ranging and authoritative book on authentic Indian food is available, making it simple to prepare your favourite Indian dishes at home, alongside less well-known dishes such as bataer masalydaar (marinated quails cooked with almonds, chillies and green cardamom), or sambharachi kodi (Goan prawn curry with coconut and tamarind). The comprehensive chapters on breads, pickles, spice pastes and chutneys contain a wide variety of recipes rarely seen in Indian cookbooks, such as bagarkhani roti (a rich sweet bread with raisins, cardamom and poppy seeds) and tamatar ka achar (tomato and mustard-seed pickle). India: The Cookbook is the only book on Indian food you'll ever need. Review: I don't recommend this for those just learning to cook or those ... - I purchased this book a couple years ago, but I haven't cooked from it until now. Over the summer, my sister and I ate an Indian restaurant every other week, but when our schedules diverged, I decided to make a project out of this book by starting to cook from it. This book has so many different dishes to choose from, it may intimidate the beginning cook. Indeed, I don't recommend this for those just learning to cook or those who prefer in-depth recipes. I say this for just about any of the Phaidon cookbook bibles (except maybe the Nordic one, which was well executed): there are hardly contexts, the directions are generally summarized, and Phaidon cookbooks require a little bit of know-how and intuition (the previous editor of the Phaidon cookbooks allowed many measurement errors to slip into these bibles, which you can read about in the other book reviews). Interestingly, this one does not have measurement errors, at least in the recipes I have tried so far, but this could be attributed to the fact that Indian cuisine is not standardized and allows for much leeway and reinterpretation (see Monisha Bharadwaj's The Indian Cooking Course). My recommendation for those learning to cook specifically through the Phaidon cookbooks is to purchase supplementary international cuisine cookbooks that provide context, techniques, pantry building, etc. I personally use the Phaidon books for ideas, and then do research for additional information. Monisha's cookbook is a very good supplement to this one. As such, the recipes in this tome... wow. This is the first Phaidon cookbook I've tried in which I didn't have to alter the recipes; I cook from it as written. The chicken tikka masala, rogan josh, and paneer makhani were excellent, even better than the local restaurant's! And the grilled cauliflower was divine; I want to make the marinade and use it as a vegetable dip. The lamb samosas were delectable, and I used the chole recipe as well as Monisha's recipes for chaat masala and sev to turn them into samosa chaat, which is one of my sister's favorite. The garam masala recipe (I used the second version sans rose petals as I couldn't procure good supply) is very handy as it makes a huge batch, and many recipes call for it. Even as I'm writing this review, I'm browsing through it to prepare the next meal (I'm thinking a sambhar and dosa). I do a bit of research before attempting a new dish, and from what I've gathered a lot of the recipes in this book stay true to how cooking is done in India. For example, many rogan josh recipes online add tomatoes and garlic, but traditionally, no tomatoes are used and the flavor of garlic is added through asafoetida/hing, which is how this book does it. Of course, there are errors (it is a huge book, after all), but none that have deterred me. Honestly, in the way of typos, the serving sizes are the only errors I've seen so far; what it says serves four can usually serve 6-8 people. There are no basics section, but cookbooks of this scope usually don't have them. The index is not the best edited and leads to some reviewers thinking certain recipes are not included but actually are, like pani puri (and the puri itself) and chai (not listed under tea nor chai but is under masala chai), although there are so much variation in the English version of Hindi as well as the names of dishes, there are bound to be some limitations (multiple spelling variations are not a major issue with this book, but paratha elsewhere can also be parantha, parauntha, prontha, paronthe, as well as the Punjabi parontay and Bengali porota; one has to track down specifically how this book spells paratha). Despite the cons (and partly because I'm used to the Phaidon format), I gave this book 5 stars because the recipes are fantastic. This book isn't for the faint-hearted or disorganized, but if you have been cooking for a while and are interested in Indian cuisine, then try this book. The recipes are worth your effort. And it is an excellent way to taste the many different regional cuisines India has to offer. Review: AMAZING Cookbook! - This is one of my favorite cookbooks! Over 800 pages of delicious recipes. Everyone we tried has been incredible. The price is unbeatable for such a HUGE book!! ## Features - Voted NY Times Best Cookbook of the Year 2010 - Cook Gift - 1,000 easy to prepare Indian food dishes - Hard cover w/cloth carrying bag makes it special gift. - Authentic Indian Food Recipes ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #97,422 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #28 in Indian Cooking, Food & Wine | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 725 Reviews | ## Images ![India: The Cookbook - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/812QfKQ3hBL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I don't recommend this for those just learning to cook or those ... *by V***N on December 10, 2017* I purchased this book a couple years ago, but I haven't cooked from it until now. Over the summer, my sister and I ate an Indian restaurant every other week, but when our schedules diverged, I decided to make a project out of this book by starting to cook from it. This book has so many different dishes to choose from, it may intimidate the beginning cook. Indeed, I don't recommend this for those just learning to cook or those who prefer in-depth recipes. I say this for just about any of the Phaidon cookbook bibles (except maybe the Nordic one, which was well executed): there are hardly contexts, the directions are generally summarized, and Phaidon cookbooks require a little bit of know-how and intuition (the previous editor of the Phaidon cookbooks allowed many measurement errors to slip into these bibles, which you can read about in the other book reviews). Interestingly, this one does not have measurement errors, at least in the recipes I have tried so far, but this could be attributed to the fact that Indian cuisine is not standardized and allows for much leeway and reinterpretation (see Monisha Bharadwaj's The Indian Cooking Course). My recommendation for those learning to cook specifically through the Phaidon cookbooks is to purchase supplementary international cuisine cookbooks that provide context, techniques, pantry building, etc. I personally use the Phaidon books for ideas, and then do research for additional information. Monisha's cookbook is a very good supplement to this one. As such, the recipes in this tome... wow. This is the first Phaidon cookbook I've tried in which I didn't have to alter the recipes; I cook from it as written. The chicken tikka masala, rogan josh, and paneer makhani were excellent, even better than the local restaurant's! And the grilled cauliflower was divine; I want to make the marinade and use it as a vegetable dip. The lamb samosas were delectable, and I used the chole recipe as well as Monisha's recipes for chaat masala and sev to turn them into samosa chaat, which is one of my sister's favorite. The garam masala recipe (I used the second version sans rose petals as I couldn't procure good supply) is very handy as it makes a huge batch, and many recipes call for it. Even as I'm writing this review, I'm browsing through it to prepare the next meal (I'm thinking a sambhar and dosa). I do a bit of research before attempting a new dish, and from what I've gathered a lot of the recipes in this book stay true to how cooking is done in India. For example, many rogan josh recipes online add tomatoes and garlic, but traditionally, no tomatoes are used and the flavor of garlic is added through asafoetida/hing, which is how this book does it. Of course, there are errors (it is a huge book, after all), but none that have deterred me. Honestly, in the way of typos, the serving sizes are the only errors I've seen so far; what it says serves four can usually serve 6-8 people. There are no basics section, but cookbooks of this scope usually don't have them. The index is not the best edited and leads to some reviewers thinking certain recipes are not included but actually are, like pani puri (and the puri itself) and chai (not listed under tea nor chai but is under masala chai), although there are so much variation in the English version of Hindi as well as the names of dishes, there are bound to be some limitations (multiple spelling variations are not a major issue with this book, but paratha elsewhere can also be parantha, parauntha, prontha, paronthe, as well as the Punjabi parontay and Bengali porota; one has to track down specifically how this book spells paratha). Despite the cons (and partly because I'm used to the Phaidon format), I gave this book 5 stars because the recipes are fantastic. This book isn't for the faint-hearted or disorganized, but if you have been cooking for a while and are interested in Indian cuisine, then try this book. The recipes are worth your effort. And it is an excellent way to taste the many different regional cuisines India has to offer. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ AMAZING Cookbook! *by L***S on December 30, 2025* This is one of my favorite cookbooks! Over 800 pages of delicious recipes. Everyone we tried has been incredible. The price is unbeatable for such a HUGE book!! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The best Indian cookbook available...but maybe not for you... *by R***M on July 24, 2020* So when I started researching Indian cookbooks, I had a very specific thing in mind. I wanted a comprehensive cookbook that represented all the various cuisines of India and remained true to traditional ingredients and preparation methods. Too often Indian cookbooks for foreign markets use substitutes for uncommon ingredients, make accomodations for methods, and represent a very narrow slice of the regional cuisines. They are primarily meant for home kitchens. This is not that type of book...at all. Pushpeth Pant, as a professor, seems far more interested in the preservation and proper representation of regional cuisines, and as such the book goes into culinary territories well outside of what you'd find in other cookbooks....and it's fantastic! But be aware that because of this, it's really a book for chefs and those committed to a much deeper understanding of Indian cuisine. If you have NO understanding of basic techniques and preparations in Indian cooking, this probably wouldn't be a good place to start. It has no instruction on such things. But for those with some experience, it's easily one of the best cookbooks out there. 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