Best Indian Food?

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Permalink Reply by dog breath on August 15, 2008 at 8:01am

Rasoi does nice dinners, the naans are tasty, their lunch buffet options are typical, little variation across all the restaurants in town. There is one on Alameda in a a strip mall on the east side of Ellison (forgot the name), but comparable to Taj. The best one was also on alameda by Lowe's but it is now a day-spa. It was by far the nicest interior and diversity of food, just so far away!

Your better off spending some of that money on cook books by Madhur Jaffrey and learning to make many of those dishes and more.

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Permalink Reply by chantal on August 15, 2008 at 8:05am

Are you referring to Bombay Grill on Alameda? That *was* my favorite.

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Permalink Reply by Patricia on August 15, 2008 at 8:29am

Bombay Grill was my favorite too! So very sad. There's an Indian restaurant on the other side of the street near the Sunflower Market, but it just doesn't add up...

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Permalink Reply by dog breath on August 15, 2008 at 3:22pm

yeah, I never found out what happened... shame, good lamb (goat) curries. The waterfall was cool, too. But there is a place diagonally across alameda near sunflower. Its just kind of generic.

There is also one on coors around the bend.

I'll stick with the prev. comment... get some cook books! Kashmiri, Indian food is surpisingly easy. Even those milk curd cakes that people always think are tofu...

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Permalink Reply by rf on August 15, 2008 at 8:06am

That's interesting- I was just looking at a bunch of Madhur Jaffrey cookbooks.. I have made a couple of Indian dishes before, but I'd really like a comprehensive cookbook or two. What do you think of her books? I was concerned that in at least one I looked at, there seemed to be no recipes using paneer. I love paneer, so having recipes for matar paneer (which I've made before but have since lost the recipe), etc.. are pretty important.

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Permalink Reply by chantal on August 15, 2008 at 8:30am

Actually my favorite Indian cookbooks are these two:

The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking
Savoring the Spice Coast of India

The latter focuses on cuisine from Kerala which methinks is divine. It was recommended by a good friend Balachandran from Kerala.

And then here are a couple others I own and enjoy:

An Invitation to Indian Cooking by Madhur Jaffrey (the one I use least)
Healthy South Indian Cooking

My favorite Madhur Jaffrey book is World Vegetarian which, even though I'm not a vegetarian, is one of my favorite sources for vegetable and grain recipes.

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Permalink Reply by megs on August 15, 2008 at 9:38am

My favorite Madhur Jaffrey book is Madhur Jaffrey's Indian Cooking (this is different than the one Chantal listed, despite the similar title). The one I have is the original paperback edition which is, I think, her first US cookbook and has completely disintegrated into a pile of pages rather than anything resembling a bound book from overuse but that's my one and only complaint. It also has an entire chapter about spices/ingredients/etc so it's a good reference as well.

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Permalink Reply by rf on August 15, 2008 at 10:10am

Thanks Megs and Chantal for your responses! Do any of these cookbooks have good matar paneer and other paneer recipes?

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Permalink Reply by chantal on August 15, 2008 at 11:34am

Yep, the Art of Indian Veg Cooking has 7 recipes for stuff with paneer including peas, mint, and paneer. There's also a recipe and method for making your own paneer which I've tried before.

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Permalink Reply by rf on August 15, 2008 at 11:44am

Awesome, thanks so much!! I have seen my friends make paneer. Doesn't look too terrible, but I have never tried making it myself.

I think I will start out with The Art of Vegetarian Cooking (because it looks fantastic) and Madhur's Indian Cooking book. I had been looking at the latter and liked that it had some meat recipes and the chapter on spices.

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Permalink Reply by dog breath on August 16, 2008 at 3:44pm

I use three mostly: The two of hers I use are the 1973 An invitation to Indian Cooking, which nicely breaks down the categories and accounts for the limited availability of plants and spices, but its also the 70's man.. budda, budda, budda... you can easily leave most of it out without much change; the 1988 A Taste of India which has great plates in it. and Neerja Mattoo's Kashmiri Cooking , which has some funky dishes in it as well, but a lot of ingredients you won't find here (not even at the "Big Tree" aka Ta Lin)

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Permalink Reply by dog breath on August 16, 2008 at 11:10pm

ooh and I totally forgot a good one, that I use for the vegans a friend of mine sent from India... damned vegans (-; .... Pure Vegetarian Indian Cookery

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