Indian Cuisine Books 2024

Written by Bhavishya Sharma  »  Updated on: October 04th, 2024

We Indians love and live to eat. We travel far away from home, spending much money to have our favourite dish.

So, lets make them today at home. The following 5 Indian Cuisine cookbooks will make you dive into the world of food and tasty dishes.

Indian cookbook by Emma Yang

Emma Young is an author, mom, and great writer in the cooking niche. This Indian Cuisine cookbook mentions about 70 delicious Indian dishes with their origin, directions, and ingredients.

The best part of this book is that it also mentions the alternatives. For example, suppose you’re a vegetarian, vegan, or lactose intolerant, instead of chicken, pork, or lamb. In that case, you may use soya, cottage cheese, or tofu, which makes every dish in the book suitable for everyone.

Every dish spotlights specific ingredients that are the main taste enhancers, chef’s tips, possible variations in the recipe, and last but not least, a health note with calorie intake, which makes the book your final spot if you want to know anything about a specific dish.

The Content of the book goes as follows:

  • Introduction to Indian Food
  • The World of Indian Breakfast Recipes
  • The World of Indian Lunch Recipes
  • The World of Indian Dinner Recipes
  • The World of Indian Dessert Recipes
  • Authentic Indian Recipes Eaten Only by Indian People

Every section has at least 15-20 sub-sections.


The Chutney Life by Palak Patel

Famous chef Palak Patel’s debut book, “The Chutney Life,” became a bestselling book shortly after its launch.

This cookbook starts with giving you a heads up of the following to get started with the book:

1- Spices

2- Grains

3- Legumes

4- Lentils

5- Type of chilies

6- Essential tools and equipment

It also adds a small description to everything to help you understand how each item would add value to your dish and enhance the taste.

Every dish includes an introduction, followed by the ingredients, the preparation process, and how to do things differently if the dish has to be served right away vs. if it has to be stored. The chef then gives pro tips and shows an image of how the dish would look after it is prepared.


Chetna's Indian Feasts by Chetna Makan

Chetna Makan is well known for her YouTube channel and 8 cookery books covering topics ranging from Baking to Healthy food to street food.


Today, we will discuss one of her masterpieces: Chetna’s Indian Feasts.


The book’s content was unique as it has been designed for every occasion. Following is the book’s content:


  • Friday Night Takeaway
  • Chaat
  • Feasts for two
  • Fast Feasts
  • Barbecue
  • Picnic
  • Festive feasts
  • Sunday brunch

It becomes easy to pick dishes to prepare rather than thinking over and over about what to prepare and what not to. When you go to the page for that particular occasion, it has a small index showing all the dishes under that specific category/occasion.


If we discuss a particular dish, all the necessary things, like the ingredients, procedure, portion size, and image, are mentioned in detail.


Indian Vegetarian Cooking Book by Erin Chante

This book is created especially for beginners in cooking and Indian vegetarian dishes. The content of the cookbooks goes as follows:

  • Soups
  • Appetizers and Snacks
  • Main Dishes
  • Potato Dishes
  • Naan
  • Dosas
  • Deserts
  • Rice Dishes

Every dish has very small, crisp, and precise details, starting with servings, cooking time, ingredients, and instructions, followed by a few images of the dish.

Most dishes include special tips from the author to take care of and make it a special meal for your special ones.

The book has simple recipes for dishes you would have daily; even a beginner can make them without any problem.

PS: You may consider other books from the list if you’re not a beginner.


Plant-based India by Sheil Shukla

An American Board-Certified internal medicine specialist, author, and recipe developer exploring plant-based nutrition as preventative clinical medicine has created his book Plant-Based India.

The book has been awarded as the NYT Best Cookbook of 2022. The book has more than 100+ vegan recipes, and the following is the content:

  • Starters and Lighter Meals
  • Snacks and Sides (Farsan)
  • Soups and Salads
  • Vegetable Dishes (Shak)
  • Gravy Dishes
  • Dal- Legume Stews
  • Rice Dishes (Bhat)
  • Indian Flatbreads(Rotli)
  • Deserts (Mithai)
  • Drinks (Pinu)
  • Chutney and Other Condiments
  • Spice Blends- Masala

As the book starts, the author tells his journey and how his interest and curiosity developed more for Indian vegan and Gujarati food. Later, in 2015, even Sheil turned vegan and further explained why we should eat vegan/plant-based foods and how they work within our bodies.

As the book begins, a page is dedicated to the Indian pantry, where you can see all the required spices and condiments to make those dishes.


Conclusion

If you want to get started with cooking or learn new recipes and fusion, these 10 cookery books will help you get there quickly. Stay tuned for the Top 5 Healthy Cookbooks.

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