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 homecooks 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 this book seeks to honour traditional cooking techniques and ayurvedic principles and ground them in the modern kitchen

La mejor cocina india doméstica de la mano de la reputadísima chef Asma Kahn, propietaria del restaurante londinense Darjeeling Express.El galardonado restaurante Darjeeling Express nació entre cenas con amigos en las que se servian delicados platos de la cocina india a partir de recetas familiares que se remontan a varias generaciones. En este libro, Asma nos cuenta como ha alcanzado el exito contando su historia, la de una inmigrante que logro forjarse un nuevo hogar gracias a la comida. Sus recetas rinden homenaje a su linaje familiar, y siguiendo el recorrido del tren de vapor Darjeeling Express, nos transportan a las concurridas calles de Bengala y Calcuta, donde Asma paso su infancia.Una seleccion de platos que con sus intensos sabores y sorprendentes texturas nos invitan a sentarnos a la mesa para disfrutar de un deliciosodawaat (festin). Ademas de un compendio de deliciosas y sencillas recetas, este libro quiere ser una celebracion de herencia, de cultura, de comunidad y de calidad.