(Click on the title for more of Majjie's thoughts)

Don't buy this book if you want to re-create the sort of recipes you get in an Indian restaurant ... hot, spicy and complicated ... the recipes are, by all accounts, lighter, fresher and perhaps more fragrant. More importantly, perhaps, they're easy and quick to make - without the huge list of spices and ingredients that curry recipes often seem to involve. The recipes aren't taken from Madhur Jaffrey's previous, very popular books either ... so the book would be good for fans of Madhur's. When an old favourite does appear, it's given a new twist of some sort.

Authentic Indian style recipes include; prawn curry from Goa, hearty Sri Lankan beef with coconut milk, and chicken baked in an almond and onion sauce. There are also lighter dishes such as, salmon in a tomato cream sauce, creamy potato and pea curry, swiss chard stir fried with ginger and garlic, and sausage curry ... not perhaps such traditional Indian dishes?