Best Indian Food Cooking | Village Cooking: Learn to prepare delicious and best Indian delicacies in an easy way

set off in search of the right ingredients. In those days, grocery shops still had very seasonal vegetables and all I could see were parsnips, swedes and Brussels sprouts. Not what I was used to at all! Thankfully, I could buy a cauli Food is central to an Indian person’s life. It is spoken about all the time, is a great icebreaker and is cooked and eaten throughout the day. The highest demonstration of love in India is to feed someone and one of the There was an interest in Indian food in the UK at the time, but the recipes I found in books and magazines seemed complex, with long lists of ingredients and many steps to achieve an ‘authentic’ Indian meal. My cooking was simpler, quicker and fuss-free. I started my cookery school in London – Cooking With Monisha – where I taught members of the public, chefs and students of hospitality management an easy, manageable style of Indian cooking. Cooking With Monisha is a vibrant school now and I also teach the Indian courses at several top cookery schools around the UK. The Indian food that is available in the UK is only a small part of a very vast and diverse cuisine. This has to do with migration: people from northern India, mainly Punjab, Gujarat and Bangladesh (which was a part of India until 1947) brought their food to the West and adapted it to suit local tastes. Dishes were classi