Asma's Indian Kitchen: The bestselling Indian cookbook from Darjeeling Express’ award winning chef

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Vieles wirkt auf den ersten Blick eher reduziert, wird aber durch den gezielten Einsatz der unterschiedlichen Gewürze zu einer wahren Geschmacksexplosion, die nicht durch extreme Schärfe (was für viele indische Gerichte leider zutrifft) überlagert wird. Interspersed throughout the book are more of Asma’s personal stories and recollections, plus wonderful photographs taken by Ming Tang-Evans who accompanied Asma during one of her visits to Calcutta. As such, her cooking covers a swathe of regional India, and looks to both royal feasts and simple street food. This piece has another purpose: to express deep pride in a longtime friend whom I’ve seen evolve from an at-home host with aptitude into a super-successful professional restaurateur who’s currently a bit of a darling of London’s culinary scene – with her very own episode of Netflix’s Chef’s Table in the pipeline to boot.

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I joke, of course, because one of her many great achievements is the impressive training of her all-women kitchen team, a personal endeavour to support and lift up “second daughters”, traditionally undervalued in Indian culture – the team are perfectly capable of faithfully cooking Asma’s recipes and running the kitchen in Asma’s absence). Like Asma, the book is down to earth but with a touch of bling, is packed with delicious recipes and of course, lots and lots of stories. I was worried that it would be tough but it wasn't, and had a very good flavour and nice crisp edges. These are followed with a series of menu suggestions to help you pull the various recipes together into coherent meals.

Flipping through Asma’s Indian Kitchen is rather like sharing a cup of chai and a good old gupshup with the author herself – the conversation frequently food-focussed but meandering off into an anecdote about a much-loved family cook here, the tale of a dying tradition there, the odd history lesson thrown in for good measure. Ich mag Kochbücher, die Geschichten erzählen, die mehr sind als bloße Rezeptsammlungen sondern uns etwas über die Köche/Köchinnen verraten. Since then, Darjeeling Express has become Londoners' Soho go-to for great cooking from her team of female chefs. Asma has interspersed her recipes with family anecdotes, which I think adds to the content of the book.She has finally responded to the increasing clamour for her recipes by working with Pavilion Books on her first cookery book, Asma’s Indian Kitchen. One of the things I love about visiting Asma is her love of telling stories, in fact, she’s a real talker and sometimes I wonder how she has time to also supervise the cooking! The kitchen at Darjeeling Express is run by an all-women team and champions home-style food cooked with passion. began life as a dinner for 12 guests at home - Indian food, lovingly cooked from family recipes going back generations.