The chef behind the popular Mowgli Street Food cookbook shares over
100 global rice recipes to spice up your kitchen
Across continents, rice is the dramatic centerpiece of the table and at
the heart of life. In Pimp My Rice, food writer and chef Nisha Katona
shares recipes from her home kitchen and around the globe, from Pimped
Rice Piri Piri to Beefed-Up Bibimbap and even Black Rice & Coconut
Sorbet. Showcasing a rainbow of types and explaining how to cook them
perfectly every time, Nisha takes the fear out of the world's greatest
cereal killer.
Nisha Katona is a rice evangelist. Why? It does not need peeling, it
does not need soaking, it likes to be left to cook without a watchful
gaze. It has an eternally long life, waiting long in dark cupboards,
bidden to warm musky life when fridges are empty and potatoes are
sullenly sprouting. Far from being an understudy, rice is the most
virile, muscular weapons of mass construction in the busy working
kitchen.
Nisha, who runs a fantastically popular Curry Clinic on Twitter, is on a
mission to demystify rice and to show the enormous breadth of rice
recipes that can be created simply and quickly. As a second generation
Indian, she shows how to marry different cuisines together, to create
vibrant, exciting dishes. In other words, this is a book of pimped-up
rice recipes.
