Lite and Luscious Cuisine of India : Recipes and Tips for Healthy and Quick Meals

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Summary: Great Indian cuisine for busy, health-conscious lifestyles.
Review: From the Tandoori Chicken and specialty breads Indian cuisine is known for to healthy revamps of Indian cooking, this provides a fine selection of dishes modified for busy, health-conscious lifestyles. Over a hundred traditional recipes are included, along with nutritional analysis and preparation steps which require only access to spices now commonly found in any supermarket.

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Summary: Best ever!
Review: I am an American who cooks for my Indian husband, and I've tried several cookbooks. This is the best--easy, and uses the same basic 10 spices so you don't have to go out and buy all sorts of spices you've never heard of.

I wore out my first copy, and I seriously had to buy another!

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Summary: Tasty AND Healthy
Review: I cook from this book all the time. Lots of the recipes are very tasty and have tiny amounts of fat, like 1 teaspoon of olive oil in the whole dish.
This book also gives calorie counts for every recipe so it's really easy to integrate into a diet.
My wife and I love it.

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Summary: Tasty AND Healthy
Review: I found this book under its old title "Lite and Luscious Indian Cuisine" at the library. I am hoping that only the title has changed, because it's a great book! Ms. Gadia writes in a very conversational way... I feel as though she comes through as a "real person" rather than just an "author"...the recipes are really down to earth as is her writing style. Not many esoteric ingredients are called for (I have a problem sometimes with pantry overload from Indian/Asian cooking...I probably have more kinds of spices in my cupboard than the average Indian person!). It bothers me at times in certain cookbooks when a recipe calls for half a teaspoon of a particular hard to find spice, then doesn't call for that ingredient again in the rest of the book. One ends up with a real overload of spices if you are not cooking Indian every day (especially if you are not cooking for a large family to begin with). In this book some ingredients might be specialized, (asafetida, cardamom pods, etc.) but most of the recipes seem to utilize what is available on hand in your average town (Ms. Gadia lives and works in Ames, Iowa...not New York or Chicago). Those who are on specialized diets will appreciate her tables for food exchanges and nutritional info, too. All around, this seems truly to be "home cooking" and a labor of love!

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Summary: sweet and short
Review: I got this book as a graduation gift... I've resorted to it off and on since then...the recipes are simple to follow and the ingredients are easily obtainable.....nothing complicated here..just short and simple and yummy...

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Summary: eat Indian flavors without the guilt!
Review: I love Indian food but as I have to "watch what I eat these days" I thought Indian food was gone forever. This book is great at giving that nice Indian taste without the fat. I will say it skips the final tempering process so common in traditional cooking, but let's face it, frying several tablespoons of oil with spices and dumping it all on top of a healthy dhal just isn't good for you, neither is it necessary. I use this book a lot even when I am cooking for friends and everyone seems to enjoy it.

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Summary: Now i can cook indian foods
Review: Truth be told, i only use about half of this cookbook, but i love it.I am vegan and have not used any of the meat, chicken or seafood recipes. I have used one to one substitutions of soymilk and soy yogurt for dairy , but have not tried her paneer recipes, and i still have tons of options. I think this cookbook is great! every (veg) dish i have made from this book has won raves. People who won't eat green beans eat the ones from this book, if they hate eggplant, they decide to try, and then eat hers.Everything comes together easily, and she gives lots of great background about real indian cooking in the beginning of the book. I have taken to making dals, chutneys and breads from this book. I keep them in the freezer and heat them up with one of her very quick and delicious veggie dishes for an absolutely awesome dinner. I have had to discover the local india grocery in my area for some of the spices but, the indian grocery is cheap so i would encourage you to look around for one if you get this book.

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Summary: Great-tasting dishes without a lot of fuss
Review: What a delight to find an Indian cookbook filled with wonderful recipes that don't take three+ hours to prepare
and aren't laden with fat! I can whip up these recipes with one hand, bathe my kid with the other, and still be
ready to sit down and eat in less than an hour. Yum. Read Madhur Jaffrey's _Indian Cooking_ for the theory,
then pick up this book and start cooking.

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Summary: A total find
Review: Wonderful.
Makes Indian cooking easy to learn.
Includes nutritional analyses, including calories, grams
of fat protein and carbohydrates for each recipe, along with
meal planning instructions for a healthy diet.
All of the recipies are delicious and healthy at the same time.
There are many simple recipies that can be prepared in a short time. I was lucky to find this cookbook at random in a bookstore, and it has totally changed my diet. I would choose my own food made from this cookbook over eating out any day.