Luso Goan Culinary Cook Book

This cookery book, first published in 1996, has been edited in its third reprint in 2020 as Goencho Shivrak Upaahaar. It gives an insight into Goan vegetarian cookery as well as the making of Goa’s very own regular as well as festive sweets. A good help to a new learner.

Swing with Mango Dishes..

Goans have refined the culinary art through a unique blend of the culinary wisdom of the East and West. The dishes included in this treasure trove will reflect the romance of Goans with the mango in the kitchen. With art learnt through family traditions, Nilima has taken care to simplify the mango preparations making them user friendly and easy to master. You’ll love to learn more about the magic of mangoes appealing to your taste buds once you try the recipes in this book.

Goan mango varieties are famous for their taste and flavour and have attracted worldwide attention. The British Captain Alexander Hamilton (in 1727), a visitor to Portuguese Goa, wrote, ‘The Goan mango is reckoned the largest and the best tasted of any fruit in the world’.

This is a recipe book with a strong academic flavour. Not only does the author give us an amazing range of mango recipes, she also puts in context the importance, history, and nutritional value of the mango fruit.

As a recipe book alone it is amazing. Who would have thought that 22 varieties of desert from the mango fruit? Or that it’s possible to make 15 types of chutneys and sauces? All this and more is indeed very practical.

To name a few you can make kulfi, curd-sweet, ice-cream, pudding, jam and a chewing-block (sath) of mango, and also a mango-cashew delight! A book worth stocking at every home, both in one’s personal library and near the kitchen.

This book exposes to amateurs the closely “guarded secrets by many cultures”. Home made wines of Goa imbibe the knowledge of eastern and western traditions. User friendly instructions to successful winemaking at home, using simple ingredients.

This unique book will be an indispensable asset to everyone in tasting and toasting success at the end.

The book has 59 recipes for you to try which includes wines made from apple,caju,carrot,banana,grapes,dates,guava,cape gooseberry,jambul (Portuguese plum),mulberries,rose petal,tomato,watermelon,milk and many more variations.