From the inventor of the world's healthiest curry
"This book is set to establish itself as the health food craze of 2010," reads Amazon.com's product description.Chef Gurpareet Bains' "Indian Superfood" is a book whose time has come.
Combining traditional Indian cuisine with superfoods and what he calls 'superspices' Bains "brings Indian food bang up to date," says well-known British Indian comedian Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE.
Reading about "Indian Superfood" on Republic of Brown (a site that regularly scours the planet for the best in Indi-cool) we learn that the nutritional therapist, chef and author lost 35 pounds creating and sampling his own recipes.
To wit he made international news headlines last year when he invented the 'world's healthiest meal' a cancer-beating chicken and blueberry curry with pilau rice and goji berries.
Bains' book also contains meat recipes with digestive enzymes found in fruits, naans made with seaweed and roasted pumpkin seeds, and sweet potato samosa rolls with tamarind reduction.
If weight for weight, Indian spices are supposedly the most antioxidising foods on the planet and Bains has spent years working out the exact chemistry, it's worth the wait to order the book online. Or if you can't, visit gurpareetbains.co.uk for a few free recipes.
