Mridula BaljekarVegetarian Indian Food & Cooking: Explore the very best of Indian vegetarian cuisine with 150 dishes from around the country, shown step by step in more than 950 photographs

Recipes good, but not a lot of satiating foods to be for veg meals specifically.I found the illustrations very enlightening, due to difficulty i've had previously with not knowing exactly what items are meant to be used (language/regional differences) and how the end product should come out (sometimes a verbal description isn't quite enough to know what is expected.

I have many Mridula Baljekar's book, but this one have too much come from her last book " Vegetarian Cooking of India(2011)", if you didn't have any of this two. I think this is a better version to have.

We have found some good recipes in this cookbook, but we wish it had more of them that are vegan, not just vegetarian.

Excellent! I have a made a couple meals and I have loved all of them. Some ingredients might be hard to find if you don't live in an urban center so just plan ahead.

Well written, great pictures, easy to use - even a newbie like me was able to make a wonderful Indian dinner!

I have two of her cookbooks: "Vegetarian Indian: Food and Cooking" & "The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook". First of all, I have to say that I really love her books. The instructions are well explained and there is a photo of every dish giving you some idea what it is supposed to look like. Also there are several step-by-step photos as well for each recipe. The food looks delicious and is approachable and looks easy to make.There is a short explanation about each recipe. Some background about where it comes from, etc. Each recipe has an English name but the Indian name is given as well which is very nice I think.There is a problem though. Every recipe I checked in the "Vegetarian Indian" cookbook (and I checked about 10) is also published in the "Indian Regional Cookbook". Same text, same photos, same tips, same name, same everything. Only the size of the two books is different. The vegetarian cookbook is very large and so the photos are larger. Now, the vegetarian cookbook obviously only contains the vegetable recipes. The Indian Regional Cookbook would contain all of the vegetable recipes as well as the non-vegetarian recipes.As I said above, I have not checked every single recipe. I checked about 10. So I can't say for sure that every single recipe in the "Vegetarian Indian" cookbook came out of the "Indian Regional Cookbook." But you better be careful.I am going to keep both books. I like the large photos. But this is the problem with not being able to leaf through the books like you can at a bookstore. I would have noticed immediately that this was a repackaged version. And Amazon's "LOOK INSIDE" feature does NOT give you enough pages of the actual body of the book to be helpful. I think the publisher should say that some of the material has been published in other books. If you don't have any of her books and you are a vegetarian, this is a great book. I highly recommend it! For the non-vegetarian, I suggest getting the other book: "The Complete Indian Regional Cookbook". It has more recipes, vegetarian and nonvegetarian.

I purchased it a while back and will be making the break from all meats within the next few months, I have a big freezer filled with tasty non- vegetarian things and it's more a health thing for me.Anyone who follows a caloric restriction, high fiber regimen and likes a varirty of taste will love this book just for the pictures alone, it's going to be a great starter book for the long road of years..

This is probably the best Indian cooking book out there. As a visual person that hates to cook, I greatly appreciate the amount of step by step images it shows... in such a beautiful layout too! It explains what things are and how to use them, which gets me into it even more. Definitely buy it :)

I bought this as a gift....really nice book

Ich habe mir das Buch vor über einem Jahr gekauft und bin sehr zufrieden. Das Kochbuch enthält, wie der Titel vermuten lässt, ausnahmslos indische vegetarische Rezepte. Achtung, das Buch ist komplett in Englisch, aber hat neben den US/Imperial(?)-Gewichts- und -Volumenangaben (Oz, Cups) glücklicherweise auch die metrischen (Gramm, Liter).Enthalten sind Hauptgerichte, kombinierbare Beilagen, Desserts, Backwaren (verschiedene indische Brote) und auch ein paar verschiedene Reisrezepturen. Die Rezpte sind alle mit mehreren Bildern versehen, meistens gibt es auch ein ganzseitiges anshenliches Foto vom Endergebnis. Dazu gibt es seitenweise Beschreibungen zu den verwendeten Zutaten am Anfang des Buches. Man muss sich allerdings schon darauf einstellen (aber ich denke das ist bei den meisten Kochbüchern so), dass man sich einen gewissen Vorrat an sonst vielleicht unüblichen und nicht überall erhältlichen Zutaten (Gewürze, verschiedene Linsensorten, etc.) anlegen muss.Die Gerichte sind nicht sonderlich kompliziert, aber fallen eher nicht in die Kategore "schnelle Küche". Vorkenntnisse der indischen Küche sind nicht nötig.Das Buch enthält einen unglaublich nützlichen Index, indem man nach Zutaten suchen und dann die passenden Gerichte dazu finden kann. Jedes Kochbuch sollte das haben...Also für Leute, die sich vom Titel prinzipiell erst einmal angesprochen fühlen, gebe ich eine uneingeschränkte Kaufempfehlung.

I am satisfied with this purchase.

I bought it for a friend and she has since tried several recipes, all of which have been a huge success! Lots of lovely pictures on every page to make your mouth water and easy-to-follow instructions, best present ever!