Darina Allen: Easy Indian recipes for everyday cooking, from curry to rice pudding

Tantalising Indian food to whet your appetite from chef Sunil Ghai’s first book

All recipes are from Spice Box: Easy, Everyday Indian Food by Sunil Ghai published by Penguin

Readers of this column will know about my love affair with India and the enormous variety of tantalising Indian food. Consequently, I was overjoyed to be asked recently to launch Indian chef Sunil Ghai’s first book Spice Box: Easy, Everyday Indian Food.

There’s a bit of history here: my first taste of Sunil’s food when he was cooking in Ananda in Dundrum in the early 2000s stopped me mid-sentence. I was curious, who exactly was the chef behind these delicious flavours, then Sunil Ghai emerged from the kitchen… Up until then, Indian food on restaurant menus on this side of the world seemed far from authentic.