India Express

There are plenty of punchy flavours here and the beauty of this kind of cooking is that it requires so little preparation.

Constance Craig Smith, Daily Mail, for ‘The Green Roasting Tin’

This book has changed my life

Juno Dawson, for ‘The Green Roasting Tin’

Wonderful. So delicious. So easy

Nina Stibbe, for ‘The Green Roasting Tin’

An absolute must-have

GQ for 'The Green Roasting Tin'

This book will earn a place in kitchens up and down the country

Nigella Lawson, for 'The Green Roasting Tin'

Full of realistic, delicious recipes

Bethany Rutter, author of 'Welcome To Your Life'

An instant classic

Felicity Cloake, author of 'Red Sauce, Brown Sauce'

Effortless innovative cooking and banging flavours

Angela Hui, author of 'Takeaway'

It's beautiful, remaining true to Rukmini's accessible, flavourful and innovative style

Alice Slater, author of 'Death of a Bookseller'

Packed with great ideas for quick-to-prepare dishes with some punchy flavours

Madeleine Morrow, London Unattached

Absolutely brilliant - clever, speedy, manageable

India Knight, author of 'Darling'

Beautiful and mouth-watering

Robert Elms, BBC Radio

Amazing, simple but really flavoursome curry recipes

Trish Halpin, 'Postcards from Midlife' podcast

This is Rukmini's best book yet

Stuart Heritage, author of 'Don't be a Dick, Pete'

I am a huge fan of Rukmini Iyer's Roasting Tin cookery books, but her new one, India Express, is my favourite yet... an absolute joy of a book ... It maintains the ease and simplicity of the tin books but is chattier, more complex and goes off in all sorts of interesting directions. Nothing in it is difficult and everything is really, really nice to eat.

India Knight, Sunday Times

Inspired by a train journey between her parents' home towns of Kolkata and Chennai, India Express is a collection of 75 south Indian and Bengali recipes, and Rukmini Iyer's seventh book. The first thing I made from it was Chingri Macher Malai, spiced prawns in coconut milk, which took minutes to prep, simmered quietly for just under half an hour, and was perfect on buttered white rice. Semolina pancakes were similarly successful. This collection follows Iyer's wildly successful roasting tin series, rightly considered cookbooks for our times. What was it about them? Accessibility? Minimum fuss/maximum flavour? Layout? Trust in the likable, reassuring person who guided you through? All of the above - which, together with more personal material than her previous work, makes India Express a must-have.

Rachel Roddy, The Guardian 'Best Books of 2022'

The most delicious things I ate this year were 'chop' from [Rukmini Iyer's] India Express ... The book is a practical and inspiring delight. Iyer brings her trademark clarity and fuss-free instruction to some of the South Indian and Bengali recipes she ate growing up. It's veg-leaning and full of flavour. I have used the book a great deal and am keeping it in the kitchen because this is the kind of food I want to make after Christmas indulgence.

Niki Segnit, author of 'The Flavour Thesaurus' and 'Lateral Cooking'

There are plenty of punchy flavours here and the beauty of this kind of cooking is that it requires so little preparation

Constance Craig Smith, Daily Mail, for ‘The Green Roasting Tin’

This book has changed my life

Juno Dawson, for ‘The Green Roasting Tin’

Wonderful. So delicious. So easy

Nina Stibbe, for ‘The Green Roasting Tin’

An absolute must-have

GQ for 'The Green Roasting Tin'

This book will earn a place in kitchens up and down the country

Nigella Lawson, for 'The Green Roasting Tin'