Monsoon
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Monsoon
Monsoon
Master the culinary art of flavour with internationally renowned chef and author Asma Khan.
"The soul of my cooking is the symphonic layering of vibrant flavours that work together like instruments in an orchestra." - Asma Khan
Internationally renowned chef and award-winning author Asma Khan returns with a masterclass on building flavour in your cooking through the intuitive principles of Indian cookery.
Structured around the six core ayurvedic tastes, namely Tangy, Bitter, Hot, Sweet, Sour, and Salty, and how they correlate to the six seasons in Bengal, this book aims to illuminate Indian cookery by giving you the foundations you need to build balanced flavours, dishes, and sumptuous feasts.
With core techniques including roasting, grinding, and tempering spices, how to cook with ghee, chillies, and onions, and what to add and when to re-balance flavours in a dish, Asma will empower home cooks to apply fundamental processes intuitively to their cooking.
Including 80 flavourful recipes for Chicken Cooked in Pickling Spices and Slow-cooked Lamb with Vinegar, to the more veg-forward Pumpkin Dal, and Rice Pulao with Oranges, Monsoon seeks to honour traditional cooking techniques and ayurvedic principles, and ground them in the modern kitchen.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780241718612
Publisher: Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 06 March 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: DK RED
Audience: General / adult, Children
DIMENSIONS
Width: 192.0mm
Height: 252.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 256
About the Author
Asma Khan is owner of Darjeeling Express, London, and one of the UK's most prominent female chefs. She moved from India to Cambridge in 1991 with her husband. She comes from a royal background - Rajput on her father's side and Bengali on her mother's and moved from India to Cambridge in 1991. After training as a lawyer, Asma founded a supper club which became a critically acclaimed restaurant. She has been revolutionising the London restaurant scene since 2017 with her world-renowned Indian food, all-female team, and her commitment to training immigrant women. Find her @asmakhanlondon
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