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RWJ · 11-10-2008, 08:06 PM

I'm not sure where this belongs, but I don't think they make cookbooks in eformat, so reading recommendations seems inappropriate.

Anyway, we have discovered we love Indian food, and it's got lots of vegetarian (or easily adaptable vegetarian) recipes, and I want to learn to cook it. I know less than nothing about it, so I need to find a beginners' cookbook that assumes no prior knowledge of techniques, ingredients and so on. I realize there are many different sub-genres of Indian food, and don't really know what specifically I'm looking for, but some of the dishes we most love are navratan, palak paneer, butter chicken, channa masala, biryani, gulab jamun and kulfi.

So, since there is a remarkably broad knowledge base here, I thought it was worth a shot to ask! And if anyone knows of an electronic Indian cookbook, so much the better.

11-10-2008, 08:06 PM	#1
RWJ Zealot Posts: 120 Karma: 170 Join Date: Jul 2008 Device: PRS-505	Indian food cookbook for beginners I'm not sure where this belongs, but I don't think they make cookbooks in eformat, so reading recommendations seems inappropriate. Anyway, we have discovered we love Indian food, and it's got lots of vegetarian (or easily adaptable vegetarian) recipes, and I want to learn to cook it. I know less than nothing about it, so I need to find a beginners' cookbook that assumes no prior knowledge of techniques, ingredients and so on. I realize there are many different sub-genres of Indian food, and don't really know what specifically I'm looking for, but some of the dishes we most love are navratan, palak paneer, butter chicken, channa masala, biryani, gulab jamun and kulfi. So, since there is a remarkably broad knowledge base here, I thought it was worth a shot to ask! And if anyone knows of an electronic Indian cookbook, so much the better.