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Cauliflower, Green Peas and Potatoes in Spicy Herb SauceFrom: Classic Indian Cooking (reviewed 26th August 2013) |
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About me: I've embarked on a mission to cook something new from every cookery book I own - currently 260 - and am planning to use my account here to keep track (thanks to rfb from Librarything for tipping me off to the existence of this site). I've made a couple of rules for myself: to cook the recipe as given, with no substitution or variation unless suggested by the author; and to try to pick a genuinely new dish from each book - in other words, as I've cooked many Leek and Potato Soups in my time, I don't get to count Leek and Potato Soup as a new dish just because I haven't used this specific recipe before (unless it has really significant differences from the usual versions).
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Cauliflower, Green Peas and Potatoes in Spicy Herb SauceFrom: Classic Indian Cooking (reviewed 26th August 2013)Great combination and I would have given it 5 stars save for two issues. One relates to my own preference - I didn't find the thin "minestrone soup" texture very appealing in a main course dish. The other concerns the vegetables themselves - the recipe states that they need to be cooked until soft but the pieces of potato are quite large, so by the time they were soft the cauliflower florets had moved beyond soft to mushy. |
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