Little Treasures in your Kitchen: Indian Spices and their Medicinal Value and Usage

This unique Indian Cookbook gives detailed information about the medicinal value of spices and how they are used in traditional Indian dishes. Spiced up with my own story of Indian traditions and historic information about spices, this book leads to basic knowledge about the Indian cuisine, preparations and techniques. Menu pairing suggestions help to prepare a complete, nutritionally well-balanced meal. Once you know the basics, you find more then 100 recipes, so you can immediately implement your new knowledge. All recipes are created to tease western taste buds and to prepare authentic Indian dishes in a western kitchen.

The book is written in 2 parts;
Part 1: Information about Indian spices, Indian cooking, ingredients, basic knowledge of cooking Indian food and how to prepare the basic spices. There is also a section about tea, its preparation, herbal tea and tea with medical impact.

Part 2: More than 100 recipes. Most of them are my own creation and adaptation of classic Indian dishes to tease the western taste buds.