Hello all,

I bought myself a copy of An Invitation to Indian Cooking last week, as the chicken biryani recipe came highly recommended.

(You can find it here - https://www.recipelink.com/msgbrd/board_3/2003/APR/7225.html. I can't seem to copy and paste the recipe text to satisfy the subreddit's rules, unfortunately. Apologies but I did try.)

I followed the recipe, as written, faithfully but ended up with a mushy and unappetising bowl of rice and chicken for my efforts (which probably included 4 hours of active prep and cooking time).

I'm trying to figure out where I went wrong and have come up with some ideas:

1. Mushy rice - I actually thought to soak the rice for 30 minutes before cooking. Maybe that was too long? Also, I used Tilda-brand basmati; I can't imagine this is very high-end rice but it's a common brand here in the UK. A big part of the problem may be because I used 5 pints of water (a little over 2.8 litres) to cook the rice in, as per the recipe. The grains came out well-separated but a little wilted. Maybe this volume of water was just too much?
2. Too much saffron - the recipe calls for 2 tsps of saffron to be heated, crumbled and added to 2 tbsps of hot milk. 2 tsps of saffron is an awful lot - I had two jars of saffron strands and even these didn't come to 2 tsps (which I've read should weigh around 1.4g, although I tried to go by the recipe's description of 2 "loosely-packed" strands instead) On removing the cooked dish to a plate and mixing everything together, I did get a strong orange colour. I also found the taste of the dish unpleasantly "carrot-like" although this may be due to my brain just associating the orange colour of the dish with carrots in general.
3. Garnishing - I only used the reserved fried onions as a garnish. No eggs, almonds or raisins. I did not think they would make or break the dish, so I left them out. Maybe that was a mistake?

I was terribly disappointed with what I made but I can only imagine the blame lies with myself, given the reputation of the dish. Would anyone else be able to suggest where I likely screwed up?

I'm looking at all the Jaffrey books (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madhur_Jaffrey#Bibliography) and looking for a good first one. I mainly cook vegetarian, but I see there are even several of those (1981, 1983, 1998, 1999, 2015).

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well.

Does anyone have the workbook of the above mentioned masterclass?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards.

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I'm thinking of buying a friend an Indian cookbook, but they find the Madhur Jaffrey cookbook a bit too bland and Americanized.

Any recs for cookbooks that are more fiercely flavorful? Thanks.

I have a couple of her cookbooks and she keeps referencing green chiles. Now I live in southern New Mexico and we have a mess of different chile peppers that are green (Hatch green chiles, jalapenos, regular poblanos, serranos, etc,). My question is which type comes closest to the Indian ones she uses in her recipes?

I just picked up the new "instant-pot" version of her cookbook. So far I've only tried the "Chicken cooked with Kerala's seasoning", but it was very good. Anyone else have this cookbook??

I first heard about this book on the No Meat Athlete podcast, and I’ve recently been making recipes from it. Not all recipes are vegan, but enough are that this is a book worth getting. There are other recipes besides beans as well, but the bean section is extensive with some great recipes.

Also, I’m always on the lookout for cookbooks/blogs that have cheap, simple recipes, especially if they are bean or rice-based. Let me know if you’ve found any that I should take a look at!

Thank you in advance! :)