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.
This rice dish, ghee bhaat, is typically Bengali and is sometimes referred to as Bengali vegetable pulao. It is a simple, wholesome rice and vegetable dish and is very easy to prepare. It is suitable to accompany almost any lentil or vegetable dish in this book.
Preparations of black-eyed peas are common across all of India. This is the Goan way. It has plenty of chilli and coconut and a touch of tomato. This dish, alsande tonak, is a robust, spicy, hot preparation.
This is the classic murgh makhani. It is not a braise, but it is pieces of grilled or baked chicken coated in a sauce. This is vastly different from the curry house version and will change your mind about what butter chicken should be.
A dry, stir-fried curry of shredded cabbage, spiced with mustard seeds and curry leaves, then finished with coconut.
Cabbage thoran is a dry, stir-fried curry from Kerala made from cabbage and carrots. It is cooked in coconut oil with black mustard seeds, green chilies, curry leaves and coconut
Sweet, brutally strong, milky and a spicy undertone, this recipe for kaapi is the south Indian way to make coffee.
One of the most popular desserts in our family, gajar ka halwa is a rich north Indian dessert with grated carrots, milk, sugar and nuts.
Gajar ka raita is a refreshing accompaniment made with yoghurt, carrots, green chillies, and a few spices
A simple dish of carrots and beans lifted with lime. Gajar sem ki sabzi is a common Bengali preparation.
Gajar suva sabzi is a dry vegetarian dish made with carrots, dill leaves and simple spices.
A simple cauliflower dish from Lucknow. The pickling spices are the spices to make pickles, hence the name. Achari gobi could accompany almost any other dish or is great as a simple meal on its own, with a chapati or two.
Chaat masala is used to sprinkle over snacks, vegetables, fruit and into drinks.