‘The recipes are pure gold.’ – Diana Henry
‘Roopa's masterpiece – I want to make and eat every single thing in it.’ – Bee Wilson
‘A book that perfectly captures the vibrancy and deliciousness of Indian food. Wonderful.’ – Gary Lineker
A GUARDIAN BEST FOOD BOOK OF 2025

In this joyful new book, Roopa Gulati travels through India and celebrates the wonderfully varied food that makes up a nation, making pitstops at the homes of the people who cook it every day, and the result is over 100 delicious, fresh and vibrant recipes that you’ll want to cook time and again.

From dals and masalas, to quick suppers and feasts for a crowd, the easy-to-follow recipes are bursting with authentic flavours using ingredients found in your local supermarket. Recipes include Aubergine pakoras with onion and tamarind relish; Bengali-style butternut squash with tamarind and jaggery; Goan chorizo rolls; Tandoori sea bass; Home-style Punjabi chicken curry; Kashmiri lamb with saffron, cardamom and red chillies; Pistachio and cardamom biscuits and many more of the most-loved dishes from all corners of the nation.

From the monsoon-washed backwaters of Kerala to the crowded markets of Mumbai, the remote kitchens in Gujarat to the old French quarter of Pondicherry, where lunch is served on banana leaves picked fresh from the garden, this celebration of regional cooking will bring the sights, sounds and flavours of India to your table.

Kitchen conversations with home cooks from all over India. The recipes are pure gold. I love this book. * Diana Henry *
This is the cookbook I have been waiting for – saturated with the vast ingenuity of real Indian home cooking and Roopa’s brilliant writing. It’s an instant classic. * Ravinder Bhogal *
A book that perfectly captures the vibrancy and deliciousness of Indian food. Wonderful. * Gary Lineker *
Not just a magisterial work on regional Indian cookery, but a deeply personal and passionate one too. A thoroughly modern classic. * Tom Parker-Bowles *
At last, the talented home cooks of India are given their due. Roopa Gulati is one of the great recipe writers working today and Indian Kitchens is her best cookbook yet. She always tells you exactly the details you need to make a dish sing. A book to treasure. * Bee Wilson *
There’s an extraordinary life’s experience, intelligence, and pleasure in these pages. What an addition Roopa’s book is to our understanding of India's richly varied cuisines. * Sheila Dillon *
Warm, generous and chatty, Roopa has opened the door to Indian cooking for me with inspiring recipes that really work. I want to make everything in this book. * Fiona Beckett *
Indian Kitchens is an absolute treasure; you are in for a real treat, as dear Roopa brilliantly unfolds the diverse, vibrant Indian regional home cooking, giving voice to the home cooks, taking readers on a culinary journey through fascinating India. Every page, every recipe is a visual and scrumptious feast. Indian Kitchens is destined to be a classic; the sort of book you will want to snuggle and read on a comfy sofa, as well as whetting your appetite, to rush to the kitchen to cook from it. * Ozlem Warren *
I really do want to cook my way through every recipe in this book. Indian Kitchens is so generously warm-hearted, Roopa Gulati so cosily evocative a storyteller, and the recipes she unearths so invitingly do-able and dazzlingly full of flavour and promise. * Nigella Lawson *
The book combines vivid descriptions and photos of the reality of everyday kitchen life in India – based on Gulati’s extensive travels – with superb recipes developed in her own home in England. * The Guardian *
A terrific book * Shelia Dillon *

Roopa Gulati is all about making the most of Indian spices in your own kitchen. Brought up in Cumbria, she crossed continents and worked as a chef in New Delhi's kitchens, where she cooked in huge hotels, street bazaars, palace kitchens, TV studios and on stoves across India. Now based in London, Roopa continues to create recipes, write about food and share her skills with fans of regional Indian cooking. Indian Kitchens is her second book.

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