Recommend a good vegetarian Indian cookbook?

Anonymous
For studio apartment-dwelling 20something with a minimally-equipped kitchen who lives in a major US city with decent access to ingredients.
Anonymous
Madhur Jaffrey, or if she watches GBBO, Chetna has some.
Anonymous
Madhur Jaffrey for breadth.

Meera Sodha's cookbooks for someone who needs pictures to get inspired and is not a purist for regional styles (a lot of them are diaspora family recipes or ones she's adapted). Made in India is one of my favorite cookbooks, although it does have a meat chapter, and there's also a vegetarian one I can't remember the title of. I use these more than Madhur Jaffrey myself, they're just very appealing books.
Anonymous
I love Madhur Jaffrey’s books. She has a great Indian vegetarian book. I think it’s called “Vegetarian India”.
Meera Sodha’s book “Fresh India” is good too.
For slightly less authentic, but good recipes adapted to American ingredients, Priya Krishna’s Indian-ish. It’s mostly vegetarian.
Anonymous
This is good for simple, vegan. I used it a lot back when I was vegetarian. https://www.amazon.com/Vegan-Indian-Cooking-Healthy-Recipes/dp/1572841303
Anonymous
Thank you all!

I got Fresh India — largely because I already own Vegetarian India and this way the recipient will have a chance to try out both books.

40 years ago (when I was their age), Jaffrey’s Indian Cooking was where I started! Impressive that she’s still a go-to source!
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