Prashad - Indian vegetarian cooking by Kaushy Patel
Prashad, is a small Indian restaurant in Bradford run by the
Patel family and starred in ‘Ramsay's Best Restaurant’ TV show in autumn 2010
where they were runners up in the final.
Kaushy Patel learned to cook as a child growing up on her
grandmother's farm in India. She moved the UK in the 1960s to marry. Following the compulsory purchase of husband
Mohan’s business they purchased a launderette which had a small deli on the
side. Their son Bobby came up with the
name ‘Prashad’ which means blessed food.
As popularity grew, the deli closed to accommodate the growing restaurant.
In her first (and hopefully not her last book), there are
over 100 recipes, from simple snacks to sumptuous family feast. Over 60 of which are vegan and many of the
others can be easily adapted. There are tips to help you create authentic
indian food. Kaushy gives one tip that I
think is invaluable whatever the style of cooking and that is to ‘cook with
love.’ The only dilemma with this book is
what recipes to try first. I went for
the ‘Lemon and coriander potato balls’ which was a lovely starter packing bags
of flavour. I followed this with the ‘Aubergine
and potato curry’ which was a spicy hot full on curry served with ‘Soothing
yellow lentil rice’ which offset it superbly.
I already have a long list of recipes to try next.
The book was in the Times top 40 cookbooks of the year for
2011 and rightly so.
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