Laurie's Ultimate Goods presents Fresh and Home-made Indian Cooking

Foreword

There is a simple joy in being able to serve healthy, home-made food to your family and friends. I find it especially, well...thrilling, if the food is clean, real, unprocessed and interesting. My Dad's signature dish was baked pork chops with onions and a can of mushroom soup. One of mine is coconut chicken curry, with me creating the sauce from scratch instead of buying it from an Indian market or the ethnic foods aisle at a grocery store.

My husband's favourite is Butter Chicken or massaman curried anything. I like ginger chicken, but dearest hubby is not so fond of sweet with his meat. All served over quinoa, brown basmati or parboiled rice.

These recipes are not just delicious, they fit (with little to no changes) with a number of diet plans; Clean Eating, Whole Food, (modified) Paleo, etc. And they can be easily made Gluten or Dairy free, Vegetarian, and some can even be made vegan.

I have been making my own spice mixes since 2003, and have gotten pretty good at it. Good enough that restaurant food is often a let-down. I make better myself, so it's only laziness or time constraints that have us eat out now.

In this book are recipes that use basic, and a few speciality, ingredients. No canned sauces, no frozen meals. But they taste as good or better than most take-out. If you find the sauces not as sweet as your favourite restaurant, add a touch of brown sugar. If they're not as rich, add a tsp. of peanut butter.

All of the recipes in here may be adjusted to your preferences; almond butter instead of peanut, lemon juice instead of vinegar, tofu in place of the meat.

So jump in, and enjoy making these satisfying, healthy dished today!

Table of Contents

Foreword

Part 1; Spices

Why Not Buy?

Basic Curry Sauce

Butter Chicken

Garam Masala

Home-made Ghee

Hot Yellow Curry

Sweet Yellow Curry

Tandoori

Vindaloo

Part 2; Beef Dishes

Beef Curry

Indian Spiced Spare Ribs

Beef Vindaloo