Mom's Snacks Kitchen

By Satyabrata Dam

Indians love snacks of all kinds at all times. This book offers snacks from an authentic Indian mother's kitchen that are healthy and tasty and easy to prepare and is easy on the stomach. The book is divided into Vegetarian and Non-Vegetarian snacks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Satyabrata Dam
• Release date: Mar 22, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370787678

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Mom’s Snack Kitchen

Delicious mouth-watering snacks from an Indian mother’s kitchen

By Sabita Dam

Copyright © 2015 Sabita Dam

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There is no sincerer love than the love for food – George Bernard Shaw

Previous books published by Sabita Dam

Mom’s Kitchen – Smashwords

Dedicated to the memory of my mother, Charushila Majumdar

the best cook I ever knew and from whom I learnt it all

Table of Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgments

About the author

Vegetarian Snacks

Non Vegetarian Snacks

Chutneys and Dips

Introduction

When I published my maiden cook book ‘Mom’s Kitchen’ precisely a year back I had already plans for coming out with volume 2 as I still have hundreds of mouth watering delicacies to offer from my Indian kitchen. As in the first book, the next volume too would have had a snack section. Yet after the publication of the first book, many readers raved more about the snacks than the other main dishes I had written. Soon I realized that snacks is popular as an entity and needs a separate book to handle. So here is the first offering of exclusive snacks recipes from my kitchen.

Snacks are easy to cook and good to eat at any time of the day. We all love snacks, especially those hungry kids, whose hunger pangs most mothers struggle to satiate. We all look for fast, quick recipes that will be healthy, nutritious and filling. As nutritionists now recommend that instead of three big meals, we should try to have 6 or 8 small snacks or mini-meals to help metabolism and to keep our energy levels high. Snacks are no longer mere non-entities destined at a corner of our dinner table; they have emerged as strong players and we now have thousands of snack bars, snack grills etc catering to people’s fascination with small, filling, delicious snacks.

Indians love to eat and we have thousands of snacks from every corner of this vast country, each with its territorial taste and tang. Accompanied with chutneys, which complement or offset, snacks are often the beginning and end of an Indian meal. We don’t believe in frozen or ready-to-eat off shelf snacks. We prefer to prepare and cook snacks instantly and no one really minds the wait since the haunting aromas emanating from the kitchen is enough to keep anyone glued to their seats. Best things about Indian snacks are that not only are they timeless but they are also beyond time, so there’s no time or reason for snacks. Like we say, there’s no right time for snacks since any time is simply snack-time.

In this book you will find three sections: vegetarian snacks, non-vegetarian snacks, and chutneys. Chutneys are like the icing on the cake. You can have snacks without the chutneys but it won’t be that soul-lifting experience. Try the combo and you will know what I am talking about. This book is easy to use, just open anywhere and get going. A whole new culinary adventure awaits discovery.

I would be delighted to hear your feedbacks and please do write to me at [e-mail]

I am elated that you decided to read my book and through you now I have one more friend. I cannot thank you enough but perhaps my snacks will convey my gratitude. Happy snacking my friend!

Sabita Dam

New Delhi, May 2015

Acknowledgement

To all my readers of the first book and also to many friends from around the world who asked me to write a book exclusively on snacks; my heartfelt gratitude. Your encouragement, love and suggestions keep me going.

To my designer friend who once again did a brilliant work designing this book. As before, she prefers to remain anonymous.

My sincere thanks to all my old and new friends who will share my culinary journey through this book

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