Southern Flavours: The Best of South Indian Cuisine

Here at last is the answer to the pleas of popular cookbook writer Chandra Padmanabhan’s myriad fans – a collection of their favourite recipes from her previous three bestselling cookbooks, exploring the gamut of South Indian meals served in Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. What makes this volume more special is that as many as fifty fresh recipes have been added to tempt the adventurous cook who is looking for the new and unusual. While the dishes cover a wide range from the intriguingly-named ‘Sheela Auntie’s Pulusu’, a tamarind curry native to Andhra Pradesh, to Tamil Nadu’s festive ‘Vazhakai Pulli Kuzhambu’ which explores the delicate flesh of green plantain, there are friendly tips, too. You get to know which vessels you need to stock the South Indian corner of your kitchen, how to translate the mysteries of weights and measures and – yes, finally – the failsafe way to get your rice just right.