Spice-packed, punchy, fresh Indian-inspired dishes to get on the table
in 30 minutes or under. This is the food that Nisha Katona, TV chef and
creator and face of the Mowgli Indian restaurants, cooks at home - super
speedy, made with easily sourced ingredients, and delivering big, bold
flavours.
This is the food that Nisha Katona cooks at home: punchy and delicious
Mowgli-style recipes that take you from couch to curry in 30 minutes or
less. As at Mowgli, the focus is on food that's big in flavour but also
light, healthy and made from accessible ingredients, often just using
what's already in your cupboard or fridge. When Nisha started sharing
her ideas for a new cookery book encapsulating this approach on her
Mowgli Instagram channel during the spring 2020 lockdown, she was
thrilled by the hugely positive response.
For super usability, the chapters are themed around ingredients:
"Poultry", "Meat", "Fish" and "Vegetables", with a desserts chapter as
well as one called "Ma, Look Away!" - for Nisha's favourite pasta
dishes. Tantalize your tastebuds with "Quick Angry Tandoori" or "Yoghurt
Coriander Turkey", "Gingerbread Lamb Steaks" or "Keema Toasties",
"Bengali Fish Curry" or "Indian Fish Finger Sandwiches", "Back of the
Fridge Curry" or "Million Dollar Green Dahl". All the recipes are meals
that range from light lunches to substantial dinners; all you need to do
is accompany them with one of the simple sides suggested in the
introduction, which could be rice, noodles, potatoes or a chapati wrap.
This is the food that real people want: tasty and nutritious meals to
whip up without fuss while juggling work and childcare in an often
chaotic working-from-home environment.
