Fresh India: 130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day

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As the years passed, I began to notice how my family’s approach to cooking was so at odds with how most people thought about and experienced Indian food. I bought it because I realised that my other book with Indian recipes was full of meat/fish dishes, which I don't eat (anymore). I’ll never forget my mum’s head-turning squeal when she saw a bag of Desiree potatoes marked ‘grown in Lincolnshire’ in the aisle of a London supermarket.

Meera Sodha

Because everybody needs an authentic lamb biryani curry recipe up their sleeve (which Meera says is no more complicated than making a lasagne), this recipe from her Made in India cookbook is the real deal. I’ve long been fascinated by how this limitation of not cooking with meat has been the catalyst for new ways of thinking about and cooking with often familiar ingredients. What I thought: Having made most of the recipes in Meera’s first book, Made in India, I was beyond excited to have a new one to start cooking from, and have already worked my way through many of the recipes in Fresh India, using dog-eared pages of an early printed word document before I had the finished thing of beauty!If you do nothing, you will be auto-enrolled in our premium digital monthly subscription plan and retain complete access for 65 € per month. My second book, Fresh India, was published in July 2016 and is a celebration of India’s love of vegetables.

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Fry for a couple of minutes, then add the ground cardamom, black pepper, garam masala, chilli powder, ground almonds, honey and 1¼ teaspoons of salt (or to taste).

Increasing interest in food in the UK means people travelling to India are emboldened to discover the diversity of the cuisine, and she thinks British people are also excited to use local produce in new ways. It was such an easy and delicious midweek dinner – the sauce reminded me a bit of one of my Made in India favourites, the coriander chutney chicken, but with the pleasing addition of a tin of coconut milk.