Curry Compendium: Misty Ricardo's Curry Kitchen

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Turn up the heat to high while stirring frequently until the oil separates and small dry craters appear around the edges of the pan. In Curry Compendium, Richard Sayce expertly combines both volumes of his best-selling, Gourmand award-winning Indian Restaurant Curry at Home books, with a sprinkling of new recipes, to create the ultimate guide to cooking excellent British Indian Restaurant food in your own kitchen. Fry for 20-30 seconds, stirring frequently with the flat of the spoon, ensuring flat distribution of the spices in the pan.

A QR code is included for most recipes which can be scanned with a smartphone to instantly open up the associated YouTube video - A quick and easy base gravy recipe to cook in 30 minutes - Scaling Up - a detailed but easy to follow chapter about cooking multiple curry portions at once - Inside an Indian Restaurant kitchen - a chapter showing the workings of a busy kitchen. Also there’s lots of other content: blogs, a library of the Misty Ricardo YouTube videos, and a section dedicated to suggested suppliers of ingredients and products, and much more. Most of the recipes featured in the book are for generous single size Indian takeaway servings (unless stated otherwise) as this is the best way to bring out all of the flavours, especially when cooking in a home kitchen. For those that love a good Indian restaurant style takeaway in their own home, this would make an excellent gift this year for the curry-loving family member.

So, this book was a great find for me especially as I love to learn how to cook a good curry from scratch – Plus, to know what ingredient that has been added and how it was prepared and cooked. A quality book with a whole host of decent recipes for everyone from starters breads to main courses. Being able to recreate your favourite curry dish at home in the comfort of your own kitchen might be a challenge for a lot of people, but with Misty Richardo’s Curry Compendium by Richard Sayce you will be able to do just that! Beautifully compiled with mouth-watering photography and additional images credited to many of the author’s social media devotees, this compendium is a book that will be revisited time and time again, not least for its top tips on scaling up recipes and innovative use of QR codes.

With just under 100 mouth-watering, easy to follow recipes to try out and delight your tastebuds, any curry lover will want this recipe book on their kitchen bookshelf. It does an excellent job of explaining all the steps in detail as well as the reasons why things need to be done a certain way to bring out the best flavours and textures.To my surprise and delight, each of my books won renowned Gourmand Worldwide Food Awards for Best Self-Published UK cookbook (Volume 1 – 2019, Volume 2 – 2020), and Best UK Published Asian Cookbook (Curry Compendium – 2022). The recipes even have some authors notes on them, just giving little hints and tips or information on what ingredients can be substituted for others etc. All the recipes featured in the book are all backed up with detailed and comprehensive informational chapters: everything you need to learn the art of BIR curry cooking. What started off as a single YouTube video experiment eventually ballooned into a large portfolio of over a hundred tutorial videos of my recipes, with almost 5 million views, covering virtually everything you would see on an Indian restaurant or takeaway menu. The books have tonnes of delicious and unique recipes between them, most of which can be made with different combinations of ingredients for extra variety.