Asma's Indian Kitchen: The bestselling Indian cookbook from Darjeeling Express’ award winning chef

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It’s the sort of dish which makes it look like you’ve spent a lot of time and effort when in fact you haven’t.

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Khan laughed it off, but she was already racking up awards and, in the autumn of 2018, published an acclaimed cookbook, Asma’s Indian Kitchen.I have to admit that I had no idea that a clove could swell and watched with rapt attention until I noticed how it does.

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I explained to the students that these recipes had been used by Khan when she arrived in Cambridge as a young bride. She had enjoyed a lively childhood, filled with chatter and food made by her mum, the family’s nanny, Ma, and their cook, Islam. Such direct experience and knowledge of traditional peoples is what Ausma Zehanat Khan wants to refer to and allude in her defense within the fascinating narrative of her books. These women are the backbone of this business, it is theirs, they’ve been with me from the very beginning,” explains Khan. The book itself contains a variety of recipes that Asma loved from her childhood and she evocatively describes her memories of each dish so as to underscore its importance in her personal development whether as a child in Kolkata, Hyderabad and Madras, or a student at Cambridge University.Asma is the first British chef to ever be featured on Netflix's Chef's Table, and she used her exposure to the fullest. With Asma at my elbow, I felt ready to proceed and found that her recipes are very precise and therefore work well. I almost always roast cauliflower and it was a welcome surprise to taste such a deeply comforting dish with cauliflower that had briefly boiled, albeit in a most aromatic spiced sauce. We at Penguin Random House Australia acknowledge that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are the Traditional Custodians and the first storytellers of the lands on which we live and work.

Asma Khan on food, legacy and the lessons her mother gave her Asma Khan on food, legacy and the lessons her mother gave her

This time, with Asma’s recipe at hand, I made a tamarind and onion sauce in which the boiled eggs simmered. It is a problem she has encountered attempting to get recipes from Ammu, who is due her first visit to Darjeeling Express in May. Many of Asma’s friends – the Indian nannies and housewives that she had invited to her very first supper club – now worked with her in the kitchen.I’m so excited because he’s such a nice person and he would never have been able to afford it otherwise. With its inspiration hailing from Calcutta’s Chinatown, Asma’s take on Chilli Chicken is certainly a crowd-pleaser.