🧵 2/ Plant-Based India: Nourishing Recipes Rooted in Tradition/ Dr. Sheil Shukla ⬆️

The book begins with around 20 pages of introductory notes on nutrition, the Indian Pantry (in an informative table style), and notes on Indian cooking. I especially love the inclusion of eno, under Misc in the Pantry section - the fruit salt but also a little known leavening agent used extensively in India.

In general you could put this into my category of #ModernIndian cuisines - I have covered a couple of such books lately - books that take traditional recipes, treat them with great respect but update them to modern fashions/ preferences and common ingredients.

Have I mentioned the photography? Outstanding. Each recipe has its own temptful, mouth-watering pic.

And I absolutely adore that traditional names for dishes are kept where appropriate, without accompanying translated names. We should respect the food of other cultures and aim to build some fluency in the cuisine languages.

The Table of Contents is one to love, with each dish included. The index is extensive and looks workable.

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