Comfort and Joy: Irresistible Pleasures from a Vegetarian Kitchen

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For Ravinder Bhogal, food should be made and shared with abundance in mind, and this sense of pleasure is conveyed on every page. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

Ravinder Bhogal's Comfort And Joy is a revelation-you will never look at "the vegetarian option" in the same way after diving into her inventive, bewitching and mouth watering book. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. With equal parts passion and precision, she takes ordinary vegetables, kitchen staples and a handful of essential global ingredients (I can never look back now that I've found Zaatar and Pul Biber), to create picture perfect dishes that pack a punch. Having settled down with a cup of tea to read the introductory chapter in the same way I would read a novel, I set out the business of deciding what to cook first.This book is vegetarian, in that "not so as you'd notice" way that I love: you just want to make everything. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. Im pretty good at gauging a recipe just from reading it so Im confidently judging this to be a good book based on having read through it.

Her debut book Cook in Boots (HarperCollins, 2009) won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for the UK's Best First Cookbook and was awarded the first runners-up prize of the World's Best First Cookbook at the Paris Cookbook Fair in February 2010. I love dips, and when I read Ravinder's words 'I'll admit that I don't mind a dip over a proper dinner' I decided a dip had to be first (and also that I would embark on a mission to make her my friend.Ravinder brings the textures, colours, and tastes of this cuisine to life, adding surprising twists along the way. There is so much I want to make and eat within its pages-from the okra fries with kale-the mango gold coin curry-the strawberry faluda cheesecake-and blissfully a whole chapter on Bread. This is a cookbook of great bounty, promising fortifying curries and stews, the warm embrace of aromatic fried bhajis and rich, satisfying desserts. In this book, Ravinder brings together her signature style of storytelling, with a collection of everyday vegetarian recipes that are elegant yet completely practical. From Mango and Golden Coin Curry, Shiro Miso Udon Mushroom and Kale Carbonara to Strawberry Falooda Milk Cake, this is food as pursuit of pleasure.

Raw, modern and sensual, Comfort and Joy applies Ravinder’s creative ingenuity to approachable veg-centric recipes for home cooks. This book has something for everyone seeking comfort and joy, not just on our tables but in our lives too. From the first page to the last, every dish looks mouth-wateringly delicious and I have tasted a few! It is accepted by you that Daunt Books has no control over additional charges in relation to customs clearance. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.