This title features 50 fabulous curry recipes from Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. It is an authoritative guide, with easy-to-follow recipes for making delicious, fragrant curries. An extensive introduction looks at the eating habits of the region and how they have been shaped over the centuries by religious influences, local geography, foreign settlers, invaders and commercial trading. It includes a guide to key ingredients, such as fresh herbs, aromatics and spices, curry powders and pastes, and advice on the most useful kitchen equipment. Recipes include traditional sizzling meat, poultry, fish and vegetarian curries, tasty rice and noodle dishes, and a selection of refreshing salads and sambals. It is lavishly illustrated throughout with over 270 photographs, including step-by-step instructions. Some of the world's most exciting cuisines are found in the South-eastern corner of Asia. Each country has its own traditional cooking style, but all share a passion for fragrant dishes made with exotic spices and the very freshest of ingredients. This book offers signature curries from all corners of the region - including highlights such as Mussaman Curry and Red Chicken Curry with Bamboo Shoots from Thailand, Beef Rendang from Indonesia, Burmese Fish Stew, and the Filipino meat soup Puchero. With practical advice to explain the basics of curry-making and the ingredients used, step-by-step instructions, and beautiful photographs for every dish, this tempting collection of mouthwatering dishes is for curry lovers everywhere.

Take a tin of tomatoes and you have the start of a tasty, easy meal.

Tinned tomatoes are endlessly versatile and super budget-friendly. With a handful of other ingredients, many of which you'll already have in your cupboards or which can easily be picked up on your way home, you can whip up recipes such as prawn and coconut curry, chicken and chorizo pie, halloumi and Mediterranean vegetable traybake, tuna pasta bake, three types of chilli and of course lots of pasta sauces.

Pick a chapter to suit you – Storecupboard Saviours; Pasta Sauces; One-Pot Wonders; Family Feasts; Midweek Marvels; Snacks, Sides and Sauces – and select a recipe according to your dietary requirements, time constraints or batch-cooking needs. This will soon become the most-used cookbook in your kitchen!

The UK's leading gardening publisher brings you a horticultural handbook to fulfil your every need and seed! Get your gardening gloves on and join the green-fingered journey to growing herbs successfully at home. A must-have volume for first-time gardeners, Grow Herbs has tonnes of tips and tricks to sow, grow, plant and propagate a diverse range of herbs, from parsley to peppermint, bay leaves to basil, this grower's guide truly has it all! With passion in every page, you can enjoy: -A jargon-free practical guide to harvesting home-grown herbs -Easy to follow step-by-step instructions of fundamental gardening techniques -Exploration of popular herbs as well as lesser-known options A recent study suggests 38% of British adults use their gardens to grow herbs and vegetables. But with the ever-growing pressure of balancing family life with a career, a lot of today's green-fingered gardeners simply lack time for growing herbs. We believe it's time to change that! Whatever your horticultural hopes may be, award-winning author Stephanie Mahon brings you a herb-growing guide that is sure to shape first-time gardeners like never before, full of top tips to help your garden thrive! An ideal gift for first-time gardeners, budding botanists or the green-fingered lover in your life, make sure to get those gardening gloves on, and join the journey today! At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. If you like Grow Herbs, why not try the other titles in our Grow series? Learn how to brighten your garden all year round with Grow Bulbs, enjoy a no-fuss guide to container gardening with Grow Containers or minimise garden waste with Grow Eco-Gardening. Ready, set, let's grow!

Nashville-style Hot Chicken is the Music City's claim to culinary fame. Entrenched in the city's history, but also fresh enough to contribute to Nashville's exploding national popularity as a creative urban scene, Hot Chicken is an addiction and a sweet, spicy salvation to those who've had it. In The Hot Chicken Cookbook, Timothy Davis, a chef, writer, and Nashville resident, traces the dish's origins back to the late 1930's at Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, a story of love gone wrong, and follows the trail to its white-hot buzz of today. For more perspective on devotion, he visits the Nashville Hot Chicken Festival and talks chicken with The Chew's Carla Hall, Food Network personality Andrew Zimmern, Yo La Tengo's Ira Kaplan, writer of "Return to Hot Chicken", Joe Kwan of the Avett Brothers, and other culinary luminaries like Edward Lee, Linton Hopkins, Sarah Gavigan, Steven Satterfield, and Hugh Acheson. Featuring over two-dozen recipes from the finest Hot Chicken restaurants in Nashville and beyond, The Hot Chicken Cookbook tells the tale of Music City's fiery bird going global to influence a world of chefs and eaters.

Meet the natural lovechild of the popular local-foods movement and craft cocktail scene. It's here to show you just how easy it is to make delicious, one-of-a-kind mixed drinks with common flowers, berries, roots, and leaves that you can find along roadsides or in your backyard. Foraging expert Ellen Zachos gets the party started with recipes for more than 50 garnishes, syrups, infusions, juices, and bitters, including Quick Pickled Daylily Buds, Rose Hip Syrup, and Chanterelle-infused Rum. You'll then incorporate your handcrafted components into 45 surprising and delightful cocktails, such as Stinger in the Rye, Don't Sass Me, and Tree-tini.

This title includes authentic spicy curries from all over the world: 160 recipes shown in 240 evocative photographs. More than 160 authentic recipes from India and South-east Asia with spicy delights such as Crab in Roasted Coconut Sauce, Lemon Grass Pork, Curried Coconut Salmon, and Fish in Tamarind-laced Coconut Milk. Includes recipes for traditional regional curries as well as more innovative dishes, including appetizers and snacks, fish and shellfish curries, chicken and poultry curries, meat curries, vegetable curries, rice and noodles, and accompaniments. A comprehensive reference section provides tips, hints and advice on using key curry ingredients, such as aromatics, spices, herbs, curry powders and pastes. Step-by-step instructions and beautiful photographs will inspire and help you prepare perfect curries. Every recipe has a complete nutritional analysis. Curry has been popular for centuries and in modern times has become firmly established in western cuisine. There are numerous styles of Indian curry: popular dishes are Madras, Jalfrezi, Rogan Josh, Biryani and Korma, but these are just a few of the many. The spicy dishes of China and South-east Asia offer curries with their own unique twist, with ingredients such as coconut milk, lemon grass, and galangal. As well as curries, this book includes all the traditional accompaniments such as chutneys, salads, raitha, naan and other tandoor breads. Whatever the occasion - whether for an informal family snack or meal or a complex banquet for impressive entertaining - these recipes will satisfy everyone's appetite for curry.

In Flavor by Fire, join live fire cooking expert Derek Wolf for the most interesting, flavor-packed recipes you'll cook this year. In Derek Wolf's first book, Food by Fire, he shared the how-to behind starting and cooking with various types of cooking fires, as well as skillets, skewers, and more. Now he's ready to take you on another culinary adventure-but this time it's all about flavor. From instant classics like Chipotle Peppercorn Smoked Brisket to envelope-pushing Chile Con Limon Candied Bacon, the recipes offer lots of variety. All the major tastes-salty, sour, sweet, bitter, and umami-are explored in depth. Derek also leads an investigation of other components you should consider when it comes to flavor, such as aroma, heat, and texture. Each chapter explores a specific protein's taste and flavor considerations and then tours through impressive recipes including: Beef: Beer Marinated Bavette Steak with Creamy Corn Salsa, Coal Roasted Hanger Steaks with Thai Chili Sauce, Black Garlic New York Strips with Bone Marrow Butter, Spiced Rum-Marinated Tri-Tip Pork: Cotija Crusted Pork Skewers, Cocoa Molasses-Glazed Spiral Ham, Loaded Chorizo Sandwich with Chilean Inspired Pebre Chicken/Turkey: Rotisserie Chicken with Alabama White Sauce, Maple Whiskey Chicken Lollipops, Smoked Tequila Lime Spatchcocked Chicken, Honey Habanero Rotisserie Turkey Legs, Smoked Spiced Whole Turkey Fish/Seafood: Garlic-Crusted Tuna with Spicy Avocado Salsa, Baked Lobster with Buffalo Chive Butter, Coal-Roasted Lemon Herb Trout, Sweet Tomatillo Grilled Salmon, Seared Scallops with Beer Pan Sauce, Honey Sriracha Shrimp Skewers, Fire-Crusted Oysters Kilpatrick Game/Lamb/Duck: Cast-Iron Bison Ribeyes with Caramelized Red Wine Onions, Bison Steak Frites with Spicy Gremolata Butter, Coffee Crusted Elk Medallions, Hanging Leg of Lamb with Chimichurri Aioli, Smoked Honey Cider Lamb Ribs, Seared Duck Breast with Black Cherry Tamarind Sauce With features on topics like brining, working with citrus, using alcohol in marinades, and more, you're sure to both build on what you know and learn something new. No matter what flavors call to you, cooking over the fire will never be the same.

Easy Indian Cooking is an excellent collection of authentic and straightforward Indian recipes anyone can make at home! The 100 plus recipes found in Easy Indian Cooking have been modified to suit a modern lifestyle, and all of them can be prepared with ingredients available at any local supermarket or health food store. The preparation and cooking techniques have been simplified to save time without sacrificing any of the flavors of authentic Indian food. This Indian cookbook contains 101 recipes for any occasion. Breakfast, lunch, or dinner, this book is sure to be a winner. Chef Hari Nayak brings the diverse flavors of Indian cuisine right to your table. This Indian cooking book is loaded with detailed photographs so you can make the recipes just like Chef Nayak. A Culinary Institute of America-trained chef, Chef Hari's recipes are so popular you can find them in Whole Foods, where the Chicken Tikka Masala on the hot bar is from a recipe created by Chef Hari. In Easy Indian Cooking, Chef Hari has put together an authentic collection of Indian favorites that are so easy to create and so flavorful you'll wonder why you never tried your hand at cooking Indian at home before! Recipes include such favorites as: Curry Corn Chowder with Roasted Poblanos Basil-infused Crispy Pan Fried Shrimp with Tamarind Glaze Lemon Sage Tandoori Chicken Tikka Cumin Coriander Beef Burger with Plum Tomato Mustard Dip Flamed Crispy Pappadam Chips Sparkling Ginger Lime Cooler Cardamom Brownies

Within these pages you'll find a pungent array of fantastic tips on all things spice, with useful advice from the basics of storing, and how long to keep certain spices, to methods for cutting, chopping, grating and grinding. Follow simple recipes for classic spice mixes, learn how to tell your garam masala from your chermoula and pick up tips for how to battle against colds, sore throats and even indigestion. This little book is peppered throughout with spice wisdom.

'Her food is a joy, and a true celebration of eating' - Nigella Lawson Healthy Indian Vegetarian is a celebration of Indian food at its best; fresh, vibrant and supremely moreish. Chetna Makan's bestselling cookbooks combine her creative flavour twists with a love of simple Indian home cooking. Taking inspiration from the eclectic mix of vegetarian and vegan dishes found in Indian cuisine, these tempting recipes celebrate plant-based food at its best - delicious, vibrant, varied and nutritious. Nothing complicated; just beautiful food for everyone - and so healthy that you can enjoy it every day. With over 80 delicious recipes that vegetarians and even the most dedicated of meat-eaters can enjoy. Chetna shows just how creative you can be with even the most humble of vegetables. This book is packed with flavour and innovative ideas whilst being easy and accessible for home cooks. Recipes include: Garlic and tamarind soup Gram flour stuffed chillies Cheese and potato chapatti sandwich Courgette kofta curry Beetroot and sweet potato korma Masala paneer

Make the most of the international curry culture and expand your culinary horizons with this sizzling collection of 500 of the world's best curry dishes. Cook the classics with recipes for Chicken Satay or Coronation Potatoes, and then try something a little unusual, like Mackerel in Tamarind or Lamb Korma with Mint. In addition, the book has a wonderful selection of spicy appetizers, side dishes, salads, relishes, rice dishes and accompanying breads. A plentiful range of vegetarian options is also included. Whether you like your curries red-hot or prefer a milder, more complex taste, there are recipes here to suit every palate.

This is a delightful introduction to a classic and indispensable ingredient, with 30 tempting recipes. It is a celebration of garlic's history, versatility, its inimitable taste and its therapeutic properties. It includes garlic recipes from around the world, such as Shallot and Garlic Tarte Tatin, Thai Green Curry, Roasted Garlic Dhal, Gazpacho, Chicken with 40 Cloves of Garlic, and many more. A concise introduction gives information on growing and cooking with garlic, and its medicinal uses. It includes garlic-inspired recipes for sauces, relishes and dips, appetizers and soups, fish, meat and poultry, and vegetarian dishes. It is beautifully illustrated with over 100 photographs. It offers a nutritional breakdown for each recipe that will help with dietary planning. Garlic is one of the world's most distinctive tastes and perhaps can claim to be the cook's most indispensable kitchen ingredient. It adds pungency in its raw state, yet is wonderfully creamy if baked, roasted or used in a casserole. This mouthwatering collection of recipes provides plenty of suggestions to make the most of this key ingredient. There are lively appetizers and light lunches such as Roasted Garlic with Goat's Cheese and Walnut Herb Pate, and Plaice Goujons with Garlic Mayonnaise. More substantial dishes include Roasted Monkfish with Garlic, Provencal Aioli with Salt Cod, and Lamb Casserole with Garlic and Broad Beans. There are also plenty of sumptuous vegetarian dishes to choose from: try Garlic and Squash Soup or Florentine Garlic Artichokes. With easy-to-follow step instructions and inspiring photographs, this book is the ideal inspiration and practical guide to creating meals bursting with freshness and wholesome goodness.

This is a book of recipes. It helps you discover the vibrancy of coriander in this book of 30 distinctive recipes using fresh leaves and dried seeds. It includes classic appetizers such as Carrot and Coriander Soup, Gazpacho, and Falafel, plus pungently spiced main meals such as Cumin and Coriander Rubbed Lamb, Pork Belly with Five Spices, Seafood Salad with Fragrant Herbs, and Okra, Tomato and Coriander Tagine. Chapters include Soups; Starters and Snacks; Fish and Seafood; Meat and Poultry; and Vegetable Dishes and Salads. It includes a useful introduction that covers all types of coriander, how to store and prepare it and how to grow your own. It is beautifully illustrated with over 100 photographs of each finished dish plus charming artworks. It includes a nutritional breakdown for each recipe will help with dietary planning. Coriander has always been highly esteemed in the East and in Mediterranean countries for its ability to enliven a wide variety of dishes from soups and stews to salsas, curries and salads. The fresh leaf combines perfectly with garlic, chillies and lime to lift vegetable and fish and seafood dishes to a new height. As a seed, coriander provides a warm earthy addition to roasts, spice mixtures, marinades and relishes. This wonderful collection of recipes draw on exotic cuisines to enable you to experience the versatility of this herb. From simple fare such as Spiced Chickpeas, Crab Salad with Coriander, and Bean and Herb Salad to seriously filling Fragrant Chicken Curry, Dry Fish Stew with Coriander and Spicy Meatballs each dish will be enjoyed with relish. It is a guide to all types of coriander and how to grow, store and prepare it gives you all the information you need to start using this wonderful herb in your cooking. With fabulous photographs throughout this perfect little book will help add piquancy to your food.

This is a complete guide to growing herbs, with an informative directory and over 120 recipe and gift ideas. It offers practical advice on every aspect of growing herbs from designing your own herb garden and raising healthy herbs, to propagation, pruning and training. It is a botanical A-Z of over 150 herbs, with information on uses, cultivation and detailed descriptions of each variety. It features over 80 tasty and innovative herb recipes from summer soups, tasty snacks, and rich casseroles to light desserts, refreshing punches and soothing tisanes. It offers a wealth of attractive craft gift ideas including scented candles, table decorations, bath lotions and much more. For centuries, herbs have been used in gardening, perfumery, folk crafts and cooking. This book combines the range of skills needed for herb cultivation with hundreds of inspirational ideas for appetizing herb recipes and attractive craft ideas. The first half of the book is a practical guide to growing herbs successfully. The second section identifies over 150 herb varieties, providing cultivation tips as well as essential information on their medicinal, culinary and scented properties.An irresistible collection of recipes follows, including dishes for every taste. The book ends with a treasury of projects for scented displays, gifts and beauty products.

Sicily is both a frugal peasant land with a simple robust cuisine, and also full of ornate glamour and extravagance. A most beautiful and complex contradiction in terms, Ben Tish unlocks the secrets of Sicily's culture and food within these pages, diving into its diverse tapestry of cultural influences. Sitting at the heart of the Mediterranean, between east and west, Europe and North Africa, the food of Sicily is full of citrus, almonds and a plethora of spices, mixing harmoniously with the simple indigenous olives, vines and wheat. You'll find the most delicious, fresh seafood on the coast and mouth-watering meat in land; but the two rarely mix. Packed full of vibrant flavours, this beautiful collection brings the food of Sicily to your table, with recipes ranging from delicious morsels and fritters to big couscous, rice and pasta dishes and an abundance of granitas, ice creams and desserts, all stunningly photographed. Recipes include: Saffron arancini Smoky artichokes with lemon and garlic Whole roasted squid Sicilian octopus and chickpea stew Aubergines stuffed with pork Roasted pork belly with fennel and sticky quinces Bitter chocolate torte Limoncello semifredo Dive in and experience this unique culinary heritage for yourself, bring the sights and sounds and aromas of this beautiful food to your home.

Jirsa shows you how to get to know each one just as an herbalist does - by immersing yourself in every aspect of the herb and naturally coming to understand its innate properties. Through delicious teas and foods, luxurious salves, skin and hair care treatments, complementary yoga poses, meditations, and more, you'll deepen your appreciation of these herbs and learn how best to use them for improved health and wellness.

This is an inspiring introduction to this fiery, red hot ingredient, with 30 mouth-tingling recipes. It is a celebration of the versatility, fiery taste and therapeutic properties of chillies. It includes chilli recipes from around the world, such as Spicy Chicken Broth, Chilli Rellenos, Beef with Jalapeno Chillies, and the classic Chilli Con Carne. It has a concise introduction that describes the range of chillies available, and provides hints and tips on preparation and cooking techniques. There are hot and spciy recipes for soups, salsas, appetizers, quick snacks, main meals, vegetarian dishes and salads. It is beautifully illustrated with over 100 photographs. It offers a nutritional breakdown for each recipe that will help with dietary planning. Whether mild and subtle, or mouth-searingly hot, chillies are loved throughout the world and feature in traditional dishes from many cuisines. This concise cookbook draws on spicy dishes from the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The introduction provides a visual guide to the different types of chillies available and which varieties are best for each type of dish. There then follows over 25 mouthwatering recipes that will reveal just how versatile an ingredient the chilli pepper is. If you love food with a kick to it try Cajun Blacked Fish with Papaya Salad or Thai Green Curry, or choose from a selection of vegetarian dishes including Chilli Cheese Tortilla with Coriander Salsa, and Chilli and Pak Choi Omelette Parcels. The inspiring selection of salsas, from mild and creamy guacamole to scorchingly hot Habanero salsa, will set your taste buds alight. Each recipe is beautifully photographed, with easy-to-follow instructions that will ensure a great result every time, making this little cookbook the perfect introduction to chillies.

Soothe your soul and boost your immunity with these easy and delicious soup recipes that incorporate Traditional Chinese Medicine. Combining the trends of culinary medicine and seasonal eating and adding a dash of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Healing Herbal Soups is the first book of its kind to focus on boosting immunity and weathering the seasons, by a mother-daughter, Chinese-American duo. Rose and Genevieve have been making Chinese herbal soups in their kitchens all their lives. They made broths to help their bodies adapt to the seasons, and now, for the first time, they're translating these traditional recipes-all of which have been vetted by Dr. Shiu Hon Chui, a preeminent TCM doctor, researcher, and professor-into English. Healing Herbal Soups provides a complete herbal encyclopedia and more than fifty tasty recipes-with full-color photographs-that mix herbs with meat and vegetables to create healing broths. These easy-to-follow recipes are here for you whenever you feel unwell, or if you're just looking to add healthy soups to your weekly meal rotation. Armed with an introduction to TCM and special sections on tea, ginger, and ginseng, as well, at last, you can feel less dependent on Western concoctions of drugs and chemicals, and start using traditional Chinese herbs right in the comfort of your own home.

"Mark Diacono... has such a friendly, self-deprecating and comfortable voice you want to follow him into the kitchen." - Diana Henry's Autumn 2022 Best Cookbooks, The Telegraph Spice is a vibrant exploration of flavour, fragrance and heat that majors on the kitchen, with a celebration of over 50 spices that will fill your kitchen with a wealth of heady aromas and tastes. Packed with ideas for enjoying and using spices, Spice is much more than your average recipe book. Mark Diacono shares the techniques at the heart of sourcing, blending and using spices well, enabling you to make delicious food that is as rewarding in the process as it is in the end result. Focusing on the familiars including cumin, turmeric, vanilla, pepper and cinnamon, Spice will also open the door to some lesser-known spices such as grains of paradise, asafoetida, tonka beans and passion berries. The recipes build on bringing your spices alive - whether that's creating blends to easily enhance your food when short of time on a weekday evening, or in infusing and blooming spices to bring out the very best of these treasured ingredients. The reader will become familiar with the differences in flavour intensity and provenance and discover how, through the use of spice, we can applaud and appreciate cuisines from around the globe. Beginning with a guide to 50 of Mark's much-loved spices and blends, the book then offers over 100 innovative recipes that make the most of your new spice knowledge. With additions throughout from chefs and food writers of whom spices are an integral part of their cooking identity, including Jose Pizarro, Honey and Co, Maunika Gowardhan and Yuki Gomi, Spice is sure to inspire and uplift.

There are numerous styles of curry: Indian dishes include Madras, dhansak and korma, and there are also dishes from China and South-east Asia that use ingredients such as coconut milk, lemon grass and galangal. This book offers all kinds of hot and spicy recipes, including stews and stir-fries, as well as chutneys, salads, raita, naan and other tandoori breads.With appetizers,vegetarian main courses, fish and meat dishes, and all the accompaniments, there is something for every event, from family snacks or meals to more elaborate dishes for impressive entertaining. Whatever the occasion, these recipes will satisfy everyone's appetite for curry.