New Indian Home Cooking: More Than 100 Delicious, Nutritional, and Easy Low-Fat Recipes!

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Summary: Great Indian cuisine for busy, health-conscious lifestyles.
Review: From the Tandoori Chicken and specialty breads Indian cuisine is known for to healthy revamps of Indian cooking, this provides a fine selection of dishes modified for busy, health-conscious lifestyles. Over a hundred traditional recipes are included, along with nutritional analysis and preparation steps which require only access to spices now commonly found in any supermarket.

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Summary: Great Indian cuisine for busy, health-conscious lifestyles.
Review: From the Tandoori Chicken and specialty breads Indian cuisine is known for to healthy revamps of Indian cooking, this provides a fine selection of dishes modified for busy, health-conscious lifestyles. Over a hundred traditional recipes are included, along with nutritional analysis and preparation steps which require only access to spices now commonly found in any supermarket.

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Summary: Best ever!
Review: I am an American who cooks for my Indian husband, and I've tried several cookbooks. This is the best--easy, and uses the same basic 10 spices so you don't have to go out and buy all sorts of spices you've never heard of.

I wore out my first copy, and I seriously had to buy another!

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Summary: Tasty AND Healthy
Review: I cook from this book all the time. Lots of the recipes are very tasty and have tiny amounts of fat, like 1 teaspoon of olive oil in the whole dish.
This book also gives calorie counts for every recipe so it's really easy to integrate into a diet.
My wife and I love it.

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Summary: Well written, homestyle recipes...
Review: I found this book under its old title "Lite and Luscious Indian Cuisine" at the library. I am hoping that only the title has changed, because it's a great book! Ms. Gadia writes in a very conversational way... I feel as though she comes through as a "real person" rather than just an "author"...the recipes are really down to earth as is her writing style. Not many esoteric ingredients are called for (I have a problem sometimes with pantry overload from Indian/Asian cooking...I probably have more kinds of spices in my cupboard than the average Indian person!). It bothers me at times in certain cookbooks when a recipe calls for half a teaspoon of a particular hard to find spice, then doesn't call for that ingredient again in the rest of the book. One ends up with a real overload of spices if you are not cooking Indian every day (especially if you are not cooking for a large family to begin with). In this book some ingredients might be specialized, (asafetida, cardamom pods, etc.) but most of the recipes seem to utilize what is available on hand in your average town (Ms. Gadia lives and works in Ames, Iowa...not New York or Chicago). Those who are on specialized diets will appreciate her tables for food exchanges and nutritional info, too. All around, this seems truly to be "home cooking" and a labor of love!

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Summary: sweet and short
Review: I got this book as a graduation gift... I've resorted to it off and on since then...the recipes are simple to follow and the ingredients are easily obtainable.....nothing complicated here..just short and simple and yummy...

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Summary: eat Indian flavors without the guilt!
Review: I love Indian food but as I have to "watch what I eat these days" I thought Indian food was gone forever. This book is great at giving that nice Indian taste without the fat. I will say it skips the final tempering process so common in traditional cooking, but let's face it, frying several tablespoons of oil with spices and dumping it all on top of a healthy dhal just isn't good for you, neither is it necessary. I use this book a lot even when I am cooking for friends and everyone seems to enjoy it.

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Summary: eat Indian flavors without the guilt!
Review: I love Indian food but as I have to "watch what I eat these days" I thought Indian food was gone forever. This book is great at giving that nice Indian taste without the fat. I will say it skips the final tempering process so common in traditional cooking, but let's face it, frying several tablespoons of oil with spices and dumping it all on top of a healthy dhal just isn't good for you, neither is it necessary. I use this book a lot even when I am cooking for friends and everyone seems to enjoy it.

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Summary: Spices, beans and other ingredients to cook Indian food
Review: Piquant publishing along with MBG Foods offers two Start Up Kits: Spice Box (contains 24 spices) that are individually selected and includes homemade blends of garam masala etc. ($39.95) and Beans and more box which contains 15 items like 10 beans/legumes, basmati rice, dessicated coconut etc. enough to make 15 recipes ($24.95). Together with the book Lite and Luscious Cuisine of India, these two Start Up Kits will provide everything you need to create and enjoy authentic, great tasting Indian dishes at home. Makes a great gift too. Its like getting a cooking class in a box. Contact [e-mail] for more information.

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Summary: These recipes work!
Review: So far, I have made several recipes from this book. They were simple to make and delicious! The instructions are very basic, which I appreciate. Some of the ingredients are hard to find in my grocery store, but the author gives instructions for them. This cookbook is a "keeper".