120 Easy and Delicious Asian-inspired Vegetarian and Vegan recipes

East

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 
 
The perfect Christmas gift for foodies! Whether vegan, veggie or simply an avid home cook, this exquisitely designed cookbook is full of simple recipes that will have every recipient swooning. 
 
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Modern, vibrant, easy-to-make food. East is a must-have whether you're vegan, vegetarian, or simply want to eat more delicious meat-free food. 
 
Drawing from her 'New Vegan' Guardian column, Meera Sodha's collection features brand-new recipes inspired by Asian cuisine - from India to Indonesia, Singapore to Japan, by way of China, Thailand, and Vietnam. 
 
With 120 practical and mouth-watering recipes, learn how to make: 
 
- ROASTED PANEER ALOO GOBI for a quick Monday-night dinner 
- CARAMELIZED ONION AND CHILLI RAMEN straight from the store-cupboard 
- THE SODHA FAMILY MASALA OMELETTE to serve up a home-made brunch 
- SALTED MISO BROWNIES as a sweet treat 
 
There are seasonal specialities, warming noodles and curries, tofu and rice dishes as well as salads, sides and sweets - all practical and surprisingly easy to make - and bursting with exciting flavours. 
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'Meera can take a packet of noodles, some peanut butter and a hunk of tofu and work magic. East is the vegetable book for people who aren't vegetarian. A joy - I want to cook every dish' DIANA HENRY 
 
'Fabulous' NIGELLA LAWSON 
 
'She has a seemingly magic ability to tell you exactly the detail you need to make a dish sing. This book is a godsend' BEE WILSON, SUNDAY TIMES 
 
'Enticing, inviting and delicious. Vegan and vegetarian dishes that are hard to resist (and why should you?)' YOTAM OTTOLENGHI

Inspired by a dizzying range of Asian cuisine, Meera Sodha leads foodies on a meat-free expedition, taking in everywhere from Thailand and Japan to Singapore and India

Meera Sodha takes keen cooks on a vegan and veggie journey across Asia

When my palate is jaded I turn to Meera Sodha. She can take a packet of noodles, some peanut butter and a hunk of tofu and work magic. East is the vegetable book for people who aren't vegetarian

Enticing, inviting and delicious. Vegan and vegetarian dishes that are hard to resist (and why should you?)

If you've got any sense, it's probably already on your shelf. A brilliant one for lovers of flavour

She has a seemingly magic ability to tell you exactly the detail you need to make a dish sing. This book is a godsend

An inspiring collection of appealing recipes

It is deeply personal food, alive and authentic - the best sort - and, frankly, I want to cook everything in this book

One of our most-used family cookbooks . . . as easy to love as it is to use

The tastiest, liveliest, spice-infused fare this side of the Sabamarti river

A sublimely designed book that is tidily stocked with oft-times wondrous vegetable-based recipes, emboldened with flavors

Full of delectable, mouth-watering dishes . . . we guarantee you'll be devouring the entire book in no time

Terrific . . . dead-simple family food absolutely packed with flavor

There are no frighteningly long ingredient lists or recherché spices - just simple recipes that really work. It's become my go-to Indian cookery book

The Times (Books of the Year) on Made in India

Modern, vibrant, fuss-free food made from British ingredients but with an Eastern slant, East is a must-have whether you're vegan, vegetarian, or simply want to eat more delicious meat-free food. 
 
Drawing from her 'New Vegan' Guardian column, Meera Sodha's stunning new collection also features plenty of brand-new recipes inspired by a wide range of Asian cuisines. There are noodles, curries, rice dishes, tofu, salads, sides and sweets, all surprisingly easy to make and bursting with exciting flavours. Taking you from India to Indonesia, Singapore to Japan, by way of China, Thailand, and Vietnam, East will show you how to whip up a chard potato and coconut curry and a swede laksa; how to make Kimchi pancakes, delicious dairy free black dal, and chilli tofu. There are sweet potato momos for snacks and unexpected desserts like salted miso brownies and a no-churn Vietnamese coffee ice-cream.

130 Quick, Easy and Delicious Vegetarian Recipes for Every Day

Fresh India

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EAST AND MADE IN INDIA 
 
There's no better gift to give or receive than a great cookbook, and this collection of tasty, meat-free Indian dishes is the ultimate present for foodies! 
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This is a book all about vegetables, but whether you call it a vegetarian cookbook is up to you. There are familiar and classic Indian recipes like dals, curries and pickles, alongside less familiar ones that use seasonal British ingredients. 
 
Discover everyday recipes using easy to find ingredients, delicious showstoppers and luscious puddings including: 
 
- MUSHROOM AND WALNUT SAMOSAS 
- OVEN-BAKED ONION BHAJIS 
- STICKY MANGO PANEER SKEWERS 
- SALTED PEANUT AND JAGGERY KULFI 
 
Use the additional contents to find First-Timer Recipes, 30-Minute Midweek Meals or Freezer and Store-Cupboard Cooking and follow the seasons with dishes that use ingredients in their prime. 
 
All vegetable-based, all flavour-full, these recipes will be loved by vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. 
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'The tastiest, liveliest, spice-infused fare this side of the Sabamarti river' Guardian 
 
'Terrific, flaunting how rich and resourceful vegetarian cooking can be' Sunday Times

Sodha's second book confirmed what we sensed from the first: her's is the tastiest, liveliest, spice-infused fare this side of the Sabamarti river. Extra points for the vegetarian focus.

Terrific, flaunting how rich and resourceful vegetarian cooking can be

A broad range of beautifully-presented veggie dishes . . . Just splendid.

Colourful and joyous . . . a collection of recipes harvested from her Gujarati-British family and drawing on the rich vegetarian tradition of India.

Full of delectable, mouth-watering dishes . . . we guarantee you'll be devouring the entire book in no time.

Sodha seeks to redefine Indian food, avoiding rich dishes 'swimming in brown sauce' and opting for the way her family has cooked for generations: fresh, vibrant, seasonal

With over 500 million non-meat eaters, India is the best place for vegetarian food on this earth and previous cookbooks have barely scratched the surface. All the food in Fresh India is fresh, quick to cook and flavour-packed, with ingredients available from your local supermarket. Recipes include sweet potato kebabs, pomegranate and onion seed parathas, beetroot pachadi, cashew and lemon rice, fresh coconut chutney and so much more. People know they ought to be eating more vegetables, and love Indian food, but have historically been a bit scared of cooking both. This book shows how easy and exciting vegetarian Indian food can be.

130 Simple, Fresh and Flavourful Recipes from One Indian Family

Made in India

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF EAST AND FRESH INDIA 
 
An essential addition to any cookbook collection and the perfect foodie gift, it will change the way they cook, eat and think about Indian food forever. 
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True Indian food isn't like the stuff you get at your local curry house. In MADE IN INDIA, Guardian columnist Meera Sodha introduces Britain to the food she grew up eating here every day - food that's fresh, vibrant and surprisingly easy to make. 
 
In this collection, Meera serves up a feast of over 130 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes collected from three generations of her family including: 
 
CLASSIC STREET FOOD - Chilli Paneer and Beetroot and Feta Samosas 
FRAGRANT CURRIES - Spinach and Salmon and Cinnamon Lamb Curry 
COLOURFUL SIDE DISHES - Pomegranate and Mint Raita and Kachumbar Salad 
MOUTH-WATERING PUDDINGS - Mango, Lime Passion Fruit Jelly and Pistachio and Saffron Kulfi 
 
With an additional contents to help you find First-Timer Recipes, 30-Minute Midweek Meals, Kid-Friendly Cooking and Store-Cupboard Curries, there's something tasty for every situation. 
 
This book is for anyone who loves authentic Indian food and wants to learn how to make it themselves. 
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'Full of real charm, personality, love and garlic' Yotam Ottolenghi 
 
'Wonderful, vibrant . . . deeply personal food, alive and authentic - the best sort - and, frankly, I want to cook everything in this book' Nigella Lawson

This book is full of real charm, personality, love and garlic. Bring on the 100 clove curry! Not to mention fire-smoked aubergines, chicken livers in cumin butter masala and beetroot and feta samosas. There's so much to be inspired by

Wonderful, vibrant...deeply personal food, alive and authentic - the best sort - and, frankly, I want to cook everything in this book

[A] beautifully personal book...delicious and achievable

It's Meera Sodha's Made in India that we'll be reaching for whenever we crave a delicately spiced curry

Dozens of recipes I can't wait to try...It's a great book. Buy it.

Sodha dances along the line, evoking the exotic but delivering extremely achievable recipes. A charming book.

There are no frighteningly long ingredient lists or recherché spices - just simple recipes that really work. It's become my go-to Indian cookery book.

This unintimidating cookbook brings home the diversity of Indian food

Meera Sodha's Made in India not only looks stunning, but with a host of doable curry recipes, it has the potential to make takeaway menus a thing of the past

Crammed full of tasty-looking dishes from the quick chilli paneer to the intense 100 garlic-clove curry and mouthwatering whole roast masala chicken. Simple, clear recipes, full of flavour

Meera makes exactly what we all we all desperately want. Simple delicious Indian food to make everyday at home

Sami Tamimi, Head Chef and Partner, Ottolenghi

The best Indian food is cooked (and eaten) at home. 
 
Real Indian food is fresh, simple and packed with flavour. In this book, Meera Sodha introduces Britain to the food she grew up eating here every day. Unlike the stuff you get at your local curry house, her food is fresh, vibrant and surprisingly quick and easy to make. 
 
In this collection, Meera serves up a feast of over 130 delicious recipes collected from three generations of her family: there's everything from hot chappatis to street food, fragrant curries, to colourful side dishes, and mouth-watering puddings. Made in India will change the way you cook, eat, and think about Indian food, forever.

Meera Sodha

Sorry to be Gush Central, but I am such a fan of Meera Sodha’s food: there isn’t a book of hers I don’t treasure, but I think that this one, her fourth, may be my favourite ... Every page of this hungry-making, mood-enhancing book fills me with joy and greed in equal measure

In her latest cookbook, Meera Sodha is not only celebrating the most important meal of the day, she’s also championing flavour-packed veggie and vegan dishes ... these recipes promise to hit the spot

My favourite cookbook in years, possibly ever

Meera Sodha’s fourth book is one to make a friend of

The recipes in it are incredible and, I should say, really doable

Meera can take a packet of noodles, some peanut butter and a hunk of tofu and work magic

She has a seemingly magic ability to tell you exactly the detail you need to make a dish sing

BEE WILSON, SUNDAY TIMES, praise for Meera Sodha

Enticing, inviting and delicious. Vegan and vegetarian dishes that are hard to resist (and why should you?)

Fancy a light but punchy dinner? The vegetarian expert has plenty of easy Asian-inspired ideas

Vibrant, easy-to-prepare meals, all vegetarian or vegan…An excellent compendium of unusual dishes

Daily Mail – The best cookery books to give this year

A book that only a longstanding restaurant critic could have written, taking recipes from his favourite chefs and adapting them to home cooking…It’s a useful book, not least because Rayner has ‘reverse engineered’ recipes…There’s plenty of text to read, too, with explanations of the whys and wherefores of every dish

The Spectator - Turkish delights: the best of the year’s cookbooks

Some recipes are speculative recreations (including of a Greggs steak bake), some assisted by the chefs, some a Frankensteining together of great dishes

FT – Best books of 2024: Food, drink and travel

Meera Sodha’s fourth book is one to make a friend of ... Beautifully photographed, it’s also cleverly organised: the Alternative Contents lists recipes by season and type. It’s personal too, underscored by Sodha’s return to her kitchen having felt inexplicably distanced from it. Thank heavens she found her way back.

Delicious Magazine, The 25 best cookbooks of 2024

Dinner has instantly become one of our go-to titles

Relief was the first emotion I felt on opening this book. Greed was the second…a joyous rundown of mostly one-pot or one-tray dinners, many of them Asian. It would make a great present for everyone from students finding their bearings to busy people wanting to eat more exciting midweek meals. Sodha’s recipes have a rare kind of magic: she somehow manages to conjure deliciousness without resorting to long ingredient lists or fancy techniques

Guardian – Five of the best food books of 2024

In this touching new book, Tucci reflects on 12 months through the prism of food…Packed with mouthwatering moments and moving reflections on love and loss

Woman’s Own – Best gifts for book lovers

120 vegan and vegetarian recipes for the most important meal of the day

FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF EAST, MADE IN INDIA AND FRESH INDIA 
 
‘The ability to put a good dinner on the table has become my superpower and I want it to be yours too.' 
 
Dinner is a fresh and joyful celebration of the power of a good meal all created to answer the question: What's for dinner? in an exciting and delicious way. 
 
Discover 120 vibrant, easy-to-make vegetarian and vegan main dishes bursting with flavour, including baked butter paneer, kimchi and tomato spaghetti, and aubergines roasted in satay sauce. There are also mouthwatering desserts, such as coconut and cardamom dream cake and bubble tea ice cream, and exciting side dishes, such as salt and vinegar potato salad and asparagus and cashew thoran. 
 
From quick-cook recipes to one-pan wonders and delectable dishes you can just bung in the oven and leave to look after themselves, Dinner is the essential companion for the most important meal of the day.

Meera Sodha

Praise for Dinner

Sorry to be Gush Central, but I am such a fan of Meera Sodha’s food: there isn’t a book of hers I don’t treasure, but I think that this one, her fourth, may be my favourite ... Every page of this hungry-making, mood ...

In her latest cookbook, Meera Sodha is not only celebrating the most important meal of the day, she’s also championing flavour-packed veggie and vegan dishes ... these recipes promise to hit the spot

My favourite cookbook in years, possibly ever

Sorry to be Gush Central, but I am such a fan of Meera Sodha’s food: there isn’t a book of hers I don’t treasure, but I think that this one, her fourth, may be my favourite ... Every page of this hungry-making, mood ...

In her latest cookbook, Meera Sodha is not only celebrating the most important meal of the day, she’s also championing flavour-packed veggie and vegan dishes ... these recipes promise to hit the spot

My favourite cookbook in years, possibly ever

Sorry to be Gush Central, but I am such a fan of Meera Sodha’s food: there isn’t a book of hers I don’t treasure, but I think that this one, her fourth, may be my favourite ... Every page of this hungry-making, mood ...

In her latest cookbook, Meera Sodha is not only celebrating the most important meal of the day, she’s also championing flavour-packed veggie and vegan dishes ... these recipes promise to hit the spot

My favourite cookbook in years, possibly ever

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