Books For Cooks
This month’s top new releases
Chetna’s Healthy Indian by Chetna Makan
This book is a ray of sunshine inside and out. Packed with fresh, tempting curries, dhals and salads, all the recipes are naturally healthy, and though not entirely vegetarian, there’s plenty of vegetable-led dishes that will help you cut down on meat and acheive your five-a-day, from paneer & cavolo nero saag to sweet potato yogurt curry.
£20, Mitchell Beazley
Must-try recipe
Aubergine coconut curry
James Martin’s Great British Adventure
James is back with this beautifully shot collection of recipes that make the most of all the fantastic produce he discovers on an ultimate foodie road trip around the UK. Each recipe pays homage to a particular place – there’s doublebaked cheese soufflés using milk from Guernsey cows, fish dishes fresh from the coast, and top-quality Welsh lamb chops with gnocchi. £25,
Quadrille Publishing
Must-try recipe Crab cakes with homemade mayonnaise
Cooking with Scraps by Lindsay-jean Hard
Designed to tackle food waste, this book cleverly transforms the scraps we normally throw out into delicious new dishes. Broccoli stems are pan-fried with chickpeas and lemon to top ricotta toast in the recipe pictured above, carrot tops and asparagus ends are blitzed to make a pesto,
aquafaba (chickpea water) is used to make brownies and even banana skins are cooked down and puréed to make a cake with a brown sugar frosting. You’ll never throw out your vegetable peelings, egg whites or canned bean liquid again!
£14.99, Workman Publishing
Must-try recipe Fudgy aquafaba brownies