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Best Indian cookbooks 2023 with recipes for beginners and seasoned curry lovers

From the tooting horns of rickshaw drivers swerving ambling cows in the road, to the colourfully dressed women in saris that looked fit for a celebration, arriving in the heart of India is a true sensory explosion.

Yet there is something more encapsulating of the Subcontinent than all else: the food. There doesn’t seem to be a street corner in the land that isn’t festooned with carts hawking some form of utterly delicious-smelling food - the sweet fried desserts (jalebi), the overwhelmingly spicy nibbles (samosa chaat was a favourite), the refreshing yoghurt drinks (nothing nicer than a lassi to cool you in the sweltering Indian heat).

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