Madhur Jaffrey's At Home Cookbook: Delicious Recipes from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka

Amazon Customer: good book

United States on Nov 28, 2023

Stonemad: Lovely hard cover, interesting recipes but very few photos of ready dishes, so they seem rather untested...

United Kingdom on Aug 15, 2023

Sarah M: This book is valuable for those who feel daunted by all the ingredients felt to be needed in Indian cuisine.

United Kingdom on Apr 16, 2023

Stuart Rogers: Bought two of her books as I started out learning Indian cuisine. (I bought several others by different authors as well.) Overall, I found the recipes to be "denatured" (on the bland side) in comparison to the other books or my restaurant experiences. The outcomes lack the complexity of flavours/spicing and heat that I associate with Indian cuisine. This book would be fine for those with more timid palates who don't like "spicy food" (i.e., hot spicy) or complex recipes.

Canada on Jan 22, 2023

BookLover: Madhur Jaffrey has been my Indian cooking teacher for years, through her marvelous cookbooks. This one is a gem. If you follow her directions, your food will taste delicious.

United States on Jan 15, 2023

Dogchew: It's Madhur writing about curry.
What more do you need?
Recipes are easy to follow and good tasting.

United Kingdom on Oct 27, 2022

Phili126: My partner loved this recipe book - I gave it to him for Christmas.. every single recipe he made, came out out absolutely perfectly and delicious. I would say these recipes amazing

United States on Jul 01, 2022

TDV: This cookbook is very easy to read and use. The recipe so delicious. The only drawback I have, is that I expected truly authentic Indian recipes. She has changed the recipes slightly to encourage home cooks in the US who may not have access to all ingredients to make these recipes. I do have access to curry leaves and all of the spices are much more available now than they were when she wrote this book. I do recommend the book.

United States on Sep 10, 2021

D. Downie: I'm reviewing this book off the back of one meal. I cooked the green lamb curry with the mushroom and pea curry and the Saalad. It was delicious. The lamb green curry was surely the best curry I have ever had. It was amazing and made me look like a curry genius. The mushroom and pea curry was unlike any curry I have ever eaten and would have been the star but for the lamb. Talk about a delicious way to eat your veges. The salad went beautifully. Thanks Madhur, for dinner.

UPDATE: Jan 2015. I have been cooking from this book for 4 years now, on and off. On at the moment. If you have any doubt about whether or not you should buy it, do so. You could structure your family's every meal around this book and never go hungry, or walk away from a meal feeling anything but pleased. Favourites of mine remain the green lamb curry, the kerela chicken curry, spinach chicken curry, the goan dal, the lamb with spices, the lemony lamb mince, the broccoli, the green beans. (Dal freezes wonderfully BTW). However, I have no doubt that these are only my favourites because I have mastered cooking them. Chances are that if isn't wonderful, it's you rather than her, and persist! Because you will...

United Kingdom on Dec 18, 2010

S. Kessler: I bought the Kindle edition of Madhur Jaffrey's new book and am more than pleased with it. I have used Ms. Jaffrey's Indian and Asian cookbooks for many years and love her recipes and techniques. This new one is a nice addition to my library as it contains simplified versions of some great Indian classics as well as regional Indian specialities that are new to me and will help be get a good Indian meal on the table in less time but with as much taste.

I'd like to say a few words specifically about the Kindle edition, which is what I purchased. I'm very pleased with amount of thought that the publisher put into making this a very useful e-cookbook. I have had to return two different e-cookbooks recently because they had minimal or no formatting, which made them useless as reference tools. The publisher of Ms. Jaffrey's book, however, went to the trouble of effectively formatting the index and lists of recipes and ensuring that there were internal links within the different recipes for other recipes related to the one I was look at at the time. This is really important in a e-cookbook -- that one can jump back and forth between index and recipes as well as between recipes...

United States on Nov 05, 2010