potato and pea
This sukha aloo matar is a dry vegetable curry, featuring potatoes and fresh peas This is a simple and popular family dish.
gluten free
These recipes do not include ingredients that may contain gluten.
Indian cuisine has few dishes that require wheat or similar grains. As a result, most Indian cuisine is naturally gluten-free.
The Indian bread we love is the exception as they are almost always are made from some form of wheat flour, although there are exceptions.
Besides these few exceptions, wheat flour is not used as a thickener or a crisping agent in most of the recipes in this book. Rice flour or chickpea flour is far more commonly used.
Almost every recipe in this cookbook is gluten-free, provided you select your ingredients carefully and do not introduce gluten as part of a store-bought preparation.
potato, pea and tomato
Alu matar tamatar is probably the most popular vegetable curry in India. This dish of potatoes, peas and tomato goes with just about everything. It is ideal to serve with any non-vegetarian dishes.
raj christmas cake
This is a recipe from the days of the Raj and is surprising gluten-free. Dried tropical fruit, almond meal and coconut flour create a wonderful fruit cake.
Rajasthani red lamb
Laal maas is a fiery, slow-cooked, hunter-style lamb dish from Rajasthan, cooked in whole spices. Kashmiri chillies lend colour, heat and depth to this dish.
rasam masala
Rasam masala is a spice mix used to flavour the thin soups served as the second course in a traditional south Indian meal.
recheado paste
This is the taste of Goa. Super hot red recheado masala is used to marinate, coat or stuff into the food you are cooking.
roast chicken
This roast chicken, murgh musallam, is very popular in the north and north-eastern parts of India. Another great example of Mughal cuisine, it is mildly spiced, with a thick and rich yoghurt and tomato sauce.
roasted cauliflower
This recipe for phulkopir roast is a Bengali family recipe and on high rotation in my grandmother's cuisine. It is of those simple vegetarian dishes that features the main ingredient.
rogan josh
Colourful, aromatic, and spicy, this Kashmiri lamb dish is quite special. It isn't too hot but is more robustly spiced than the usual curry house offering.
royal lamb korma
This lamb dish, korma bahadur shahi, has all that is special about Mughal cuisine. Mild, aromatic spices, creamy, dried fruit, nuts, and the main ingredient highlighted to perfection.
sambar masala
Sambar masala is a spice mix used to flavour thick lentil-based soups that are the traditional south Indian first course.
shredded mango pickle
Manga thokku is a grated green mango pickle. It is hot, and very tangy from the sourness of the raw mango. Be patient - it needs to stand for two weeks before it is ready.