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10 Pack No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook Essentials Collection

10 Pack No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook Essentials Collection

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Want to learn how to cook Indian food at home? It's easier than you think! 

That's not encouragement; it's the argument of the entire book, and it's the reason Meherwan Irani wrote it. Not to teach you a cuisine. To get dinner on your table on a Wednesday.

Because if you love Indian food and have no idea where to start, that's not a cooking problem. Nobody is intimidated by a potato. What stops people is a list of nine spices in four forms with no sense of which ones matter, and that's a solvable problem. Solve it, and the cooking was never the hard part!

The No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World makes cooking Indian food at home easy! And these are the ten spices his recipes ask for again and again, packed together in small tins so you can start cooking on page one.

Three house blends. Seven single spices. One shelf, fully stocked!

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Flavour Profile

Chai Pani Chaat Masala. The sour-salty finishing powder behind Indian street food. Amchoor does the tang, black salt does the funk.

Botiwalla Tandoori Masala. Mix it into full-fat yogurt and let the yogurt do the work. Tandoor flavour from a home oven or a grill.

Roasted Cumin Powder. Toasted before grinding, darker and nuttier than raw ground cumin, and meant for finishing rather than cooking.

Cumin Seed. Whole, for tempering. Into hot fat at the start, where it perfumes everything that follows.

Brown Mustard Seed. Sharper than yellow. The seeds need to pop in hot oil, which takes about thirty seconds.

Coriander Powder. Citrusy and mild, and the quiet workhorse. It gives a curry body and keeps the loud spices from tasting thin.

Kashmiri Chilli Powder. Prized for colour more than heat. That deep red in butter chicken comes from here.

Turmeric Powder. Earthy and faintly bitter. Its flavour compounds are fat-soluble, so it belongs in oil rather than water.

Amrit's Garam Masala. Meherwan's mother's household recipe. Nutmeg, clove, cinnamon, black peppercorn, cumin seed, green cardamom. Add it at the end.

Tellicherry Black Peppercorns. Left on the vine longer, so they're larger and more aromatic than standard pepper. Grind them fresh.

Ingredients

Chai Pani Chaat Masala - mango powder, black salt, cumin, coriander, ginger, black pepper, ajwain seed, mint, hing powder (gum arabic, wheat starch, asafoetida)contains: wheat

Amrit's Garam Masala - green cardamom, cumin, black pepper, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg

Botiwalla Tandoori Masala - kashmiri chilli, cumin, coriander, turmeric, ginger, garlic, fenugreek, mango powder, lime juice powder (maltodextrin, lime juice solids, lime oil), citric acid, green cardamom, black pepper, black salt, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, ajwain seed, mint, hing powder (gum arabic, wheat starch, asafoetida)contains: wheat

Tellicherry Black Peppercorns

Brown Mustard Seed

Roasted Cumin Powder

Cumin Seed

Coriander Powder

Kashmiri Chilli Powder

Ground Turmeric

Allergens

Certain blends contain wheat, mustard.

Cooking Instructions

Indian cooking asks one thing of you that most Western recipes don't. Spices go into fat, not water, and they go in at specific moments. Get the timing right, and these ten tins will carry you through a hundred dishes. Get it wrong, and everything comes out tasting vaguely the same.

To start, open your copy of Meherwan Irani's debut cookbook, The No. 1 Best Indian Cookbook in the World! Choose your favorite recipe, follow his instructions, and open the tins you need to cook it at home!

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