With their focus on fuss-free flavour, clever ingredient combinations, and leaving the hard work to the oven, it is by no means an exaggeration to say that The Roasting Tin series has totally transformed the nation’s cooking, particularly on busy weeknights. Each chapter begins by outlining the basic formula behind each of the different bakes and offers a customisable base recipe to follow to come up with your own flavour combos. Her new book, India Express, is a collection of easy, quick and flavourful vegan, vegetarian and fish recipes. Rukmini left the law to retrain as a chef, working for Tom Kitchin at 'The Kitchin' in Edinburgh before moving to London to do what she loves best - food styling, recipe writing and development.

Roasting Tin, Rukmini Iyer, 2019 | One-dish Recipe Book The Quick Roasting Tin, Rukmini Iyer, 2019 | One-dish Recipe Book

Her aim is to transform Britain’s midweek meals one roasting tin dinner at a time whether a meat-eater or vegan, a family or cooking for two.

A punchy combination of lime, ginger, garlic, and chilli infuses this quick, fresh-tasting salmon dish. But there was also rice and vegetable curries – some readers may be surprised, upon reading India Express, to discover that the Iyer family “cook with only the barest pinch of chilli”. Tip the gnocchi into a large bowl, then pour a kettleful of boiling water over it and leave to stand for 2 minutes before draining well. Rukmini is also the author of The Green Barbecue, a collection of vegetarian and vegan barbecue recipes.

Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners The Green Roasting Tin: Vegan and Vegetarian One Dish Dinners

There are pages dedicated to stuffed parathas, and others to chaat, with instructions on how best to tackle a chaat station should you be fortunate enough to attend an Indian wedding with one in place.India Express, Iyer’s new book, is a loving snapshot of the heritage that made her, a brightly covered tome packed with flavour, new takes on cooking Indian food, and family stories. In 2017, she released her first book, The Roasting Tin: Simple One Dish Dinners; since then, more than a million copies of the resulting series – The Green Roasting Tin, The Roasting Tin Around the World, The Quick Roasting Tin and The Sweet Roasting Tin – have sold, changing dinnertimes around the country as people realised nutritious, healthy and interesting food really was possible to put on the table, often with just 30 minutes' hands-free cooking time. It’s such a simple concept for a book, but the recipes in this book provide the basis for so many great meals!

The Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer | Waterstones

Find recipes from Jamie Oliver’s 2023 Channel 4 cookery TV series 5 Ingredient Meals and accompanying cookbook 5 Ingredients Mediterranean. Reading this thread with interest as my DC aren't veggie and I've been wondering whether to get one of the other books too.India Express blends the no-fuss approach that has catapulted Iyer repeatedly to the top of the bestsellers chart with the kind of South Indian cooking that, as she says, “isn't really well represented in books. Each recipe if full of flavour and texture and certainly offers something different than just shoving a few veg on a tray. One of them, from my grandad, must have been written when I was little; he was like, ‘Thank you for sending pictures of baby Rukmini. We talk comfort food, family cooking memories and why Rukmini is obsessed with the concept of one-tin cooking.